Week in review: Microsoft parts the clouds
Friday, October 31st, 2008Software giant shows developers what is waiting in the wings, while Motorola looks to Google as its cell phone savior. Also: Net threats.
Software giant shows developers what is waiting in the wings, while Motorola looks to Google as its cell phone savior. Also: Net threats.
FDA-approved touch-screen laptop with Web application for the housebound likely.
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network
Happiness is…Beatles version of ‘Rock Band’ — The overlap between Beatles fans and “Rock Band” fans is bigger than you might think.
Download full seasons of popular TV shows for $5 — Get Battlestar Galactica, House, Heroes, and more for just 5 bucks per season.
Apple fanboys vs Microsofties: the scientists’ verdict — Love and hate apparently use the same circuits in the brain. Which might help to explain the Apple vs Microsoft fan rivalry.
Microsoft’s Azure–I remain perplexed — It’s hard to say what Microsoft is really doing with the Cloud. Azure looks to be little more than some nice diagrams.
The search giant injects a little Halloween humor into its robots.txt file’s instructions for Web-crawling software.
Elon Musk, CEO of the all-electric luxury car maker, says Tesla is raising more than $20 million, which less than it had hoped but enough to meet its basic needs.
Linux is being deployed everywhere these days, including Windows laptops.
Consumers have finally woken up and realized the game sequels just aren’t enough to make pull out their wallets.
Skyfire’s mobile browser for Symbian and Windows Mobile phones reaches out to Canadians.
RSA discovers a half-million bank and credit card accounts compromised by the Sinowal Trojan that sneaks onto machines from Web sites and steals information.
An opinion article by the former House Majority Leader says the Bush administration is pushing last-minute regulations that could have “devastating consequences for privacy and e-commerce.”