News to know for April 17, 2008, features stories about: the rise of CIO salaries, GUI changes in Microsoft Vista SP1, Fixed Mobile Convergence, Hyper-V, and much more.
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Mozilla delivers Firefox update WSJ: Security is No Match for Chocolate and Good Looking Women Nate McFeters: Mark Dowd's null pointer dereference exploit and advanced Flash ActionScript techiques proove definitively: Aliens Do Exist!Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Digging into Psystar
- Richard Koman: Psystar: Hoax or fraud?
- Jason O'Grady: Lawyers: Psystar may be 'very hard to stop'
- Psystar: I smell a rat (updated)
- Techmeme
- Michael Krigsman: Social media and enterprise power relationships
Rik Fairlie: Build your own Wi-Fi antennaTwitter: Blocked in Dubai over inconsistent values; Where's the next ban? Zoho launches enterprise CRM; Aims to poach Salesforce.com customers
Dennis Howlett: Zoho can come second and still winNate McFeters: Taking ownership (pwnership) of content: Cross-site Scripting Google Tom Foremski: Wish everybody well . . . the market will take care of dumb competitors Charles Cooper: Microsoft 1, blogosphere 0 TechRepublic: The ten roles you need for ITIL configuration management
Google's paid clicks anemic in March; Will it matter?
Gizmodo: Internal Microsoft Vista Video is as Painful as Videos Get Roughly Drafted: IBM Launches Pilot Program for Migrating to Macs Dana Gardner: Desktop as a service era ramps up as Citrix marks May delivery of XenDesktop at a tough price to beat Paula Rooney: Open source ERP rivals Compiere, OpenBravo expand partner networks Matthew Miller: Asus officially announces launch of Asus Eee PC 900Photos: Eee PC grows two inches
- Intel: Netbook shipments about to ramp
- John Morris: Intel says business is fine, especially in notebooks
- Christopher Dawson: In Ed Tech, XP Home not good enough for Eee
Andrew Nusca: New high-def S3 graphics processor announcedDana Blankenhorn: Why source matters to SaaS
- Creating personal health record value from the bottom up
- Comcast Bill of Rights unnecessary in open source world
San Quentin prison: IT failure is life or death
TechCrunch: Valleywag Fires Writer Who Criticized Valleywag