Origami 2.0 to be thinner, smaller, and (maybe) less expensive

Ars Technica by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) - May 18, '07 1:03pm

Microsoft is bumping the specs for the next version of the Origami ultra-mobile PC. Smaller screens, higher resolution, and longer battery life sure does sound appealing, but what about the price?

Secunia: 28 Percent of Software Unpatched

BetaNews.Com - May 18, '07 1:07pm

Secunia says that over one-quarter of applications on users' PCs lack the necessary patches released by software vendors to address critical issues. Media players seem to be the most commonly vulnerable.

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IPv6 For Small Business Arrives

InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers - May 19, '07 6:18pm

IPv6 is a technology that seems to be just around the corner. But for one company, it's arrived.

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First Day at RailsConf

O'Reilly Radar by Brady Forrest - May 18, '07 2:23pm

Yesterday was the first day of RailsConf (perhaps you've seen the videos). My lunchtime conversation focused on managing, deploying and scaling Rails apps. For my lunchmates, Amazon's EC2 & S3 were the solutions of choice. TunesCore is using RightScale...

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Google Apps Partner Edition

Official Google Blog by Molly Graham - May 18, '07 11:42am

Posted by Hunter Middleton, Product Manager

From the beginning, we envisioned making Google Apps available to any organization that might want to offer this innovative set of services to its employees, customers, students, members, or any other associates of the organization. Today, we're excited to take another step in that direction by releasing a version of Google Apps specifically designed for ISPs, portals, and other service providers, whether you have a few thousand subscribers or over a million. This new version, which we're calling the Partner Edition, makes it easy for large and small service providers to offer your subscribers the latest versions of powerful tools, like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs & Spreadsheets, without having to worry about hosting, updating, or maintaining any of the services yourself. All you have to do is point and click in the easy admin control panel and figure out what branding you'd like to layer on top of the products in order to create a customized look and feel. You can quit spending your resources and time on applications like webmail -- and leave the work to our busy bees at the Googleplex.

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MySQL System Architecture

developer.com - May 19, '07 7:47am

To effectively use an open source database you should understand the internals. Get your hands on the MySQL source code, and configure and retrieve the documentation in various formats and take a look inside.

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Console mods find dead end at Xbox Live

CNET News.com - May 18, '07 10:41am

Blog: Users with modified consoles will no longer be able to access Xbox Live

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Microsoft Launches Popfly: Mashup App Creator Built On Silverlight

TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic - May 18, '07 9:20am

Microsoft will announce the private beta launch of Popfly this morning, an application that allows users to create mashups, widgets and other applications using a very cool and easy to use web-based graphical interface. We previously covered the launch of Yahoo! Pipes and compared five different applications that let you mix data and build applications [...]

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Microsoft to buy aQuantive for $6 billion

InfoWorld: Top News by Jeremy_Kirk@idg.com (Jeremy Kirk) - May 18, '07 9:13am

(InfoWorld) - Microsoft plans to acquire aQuantive, a digital marketing services agency, for around $6 billion in order to grow its Internet advertising business, it was announced Friday.

Microsoft said aQuantive's 2,600 employees will be incorporated into its online services business, dedicated to growing advertising on the company's MSN portal, its Windows Live online services, the Xbox Live gaming platform and Office Live services.

The planned acquisition comes just a month after Google paid $3.1 billion for DoubleClick, a network of advertisers and Web publishers, to boost its capabilities in rich media advertising such as banner, graphical and video ads.

While Microsoft lost out in the DoubleClick bidding war, aQuantive represents a significant acquisition for Microsoft, albeit a smaller one than the company's rumored interest in a buyout of Yahoo Inc.

AQuantive will bring new digital advertising software and services for Microsoft to support other services such as on-demand video and IP (Internet Protocol) television. AQuantive's Avenue A Razorfish service puts together packages of online advertising for its clients. The company has also runs Atlas, a business that offers software and services for digital ad placement. AQuantive has another service, DRIVEpm, that helps advertisers and publishers manage campaigns and ad inventory.

Subject to shareholder and regulatory approval, the deal, which values aQuantive at $66.50 per share, is expected to close in the first half of Microsoft's fiscal 2008. Microsoft is offering a sizeable premium on aQuantive's stock, which closed Thursday at $35.87.

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Study finds 25 countries block Web sites (AP)

Yahoo! News: Technology News - May 18, '07 12:46am

AP - At least 25 countries around the world block Web sites for political, social or other reasons as governments seek to assert authority over a network meant to be borderless, according to a study out Friday.

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