Archive for November 11th, 2008

The spreadsheet of sunshine: Who’s hiring

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

What’s this? Open jobs? Why, yes. We’re tracking companies that are hiring. Happy hunting, everyone.

Lossless audio will come to portable players, eventually

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Featured links from the CNET Blog Network

Lossless audio is coming to portable players, eventually–A director on Microsoft’s Zune team understands the importance of lossless files.

Intel Core i7 processors hit online retailers–About a week early before the processor’s official launch, e-tailers are taking orders for the Core i7.p>

Nexon and 7-Eleven promote in-game Slurpees–Dave Rosenberg would love to buy his virtual self a nice refreshing Slurpee.

Add page numbers to half-size pages in Word– Dennis O’Reilly gives tips on formatting Word documents with two columns.

HomeAway opens door to $250 million funding round

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Vacation home rental site HomeAway lands the largest U.S. venture round for an Internet company in the last eight years.

Yahoo’s Microsoft-Icahn-Google bill reaches $73 million

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Yahoo sat at the negotiating table with Microsoft and then Google. And while it didn’t get a bite to eat, it’s now stuck with a multimillion-dollar bill.

MySpace beating Facebook on ads? Well, duh

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Why nobody in the tech world is surprised that Facebook is still behind MySpace in terms of advertising.

The license wars are over

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Licensing has dropped way down the list of hot-button issues relevant to open-source software. The best evidence of this is what’s happening around cloud computing.

Start-up Planet Metrics launches carbon data warehouse

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

The company attracts $2.3 million in funding and launches a service for modeling emissions at corporations looking to reduce their carbon footprint.

Transparency is catching: Zoho shows status

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Web application specialist now features performance statistics for its online applications for word processing, spreadsheets, and more.

Sugar Inc. lets bloggers make money off shopaholics

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

New affiliate marketing program gives bloggers an additional revenue stream. The downside: who the heck is buying Louis Vuitton handbags these days, anyway?

US-CERT warns of SAP vulnerability

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

A “highly critical,” unspecified hole in the graphical user interface client for the German company’s ERP software can cause IE to crash in an exploitable manner, advisories warn.