Slideshow: Best Books of 2007 (CIO Insight)

CIO Insight's editors picked the year's top works for IT executives.

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2007: What a year it was (NetworkWorld)

NetworkWorld takes a look back at the past year's top stories in the networking world.

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The top 10 underreported technology stories of 2007 (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld presents the 2007 trends and events you may have missed and their implications for the year ahead.
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Multiple: 2007 top ten lists (TG Daily)

NewScientist went all out in preparing some top ten lists for 2007. Well, not really, but it is a way to pass an hour of your time if you have nothing better to do. The Inquirer has a brief listing as well. Enjoy!

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Trojan capitalizes on Bhutto assassination in under 24 hours (Ars Technica)

We've already seen two Storm attacks this week aimed at capitalizing on the holiday season. Now, a new Javascript exploit is migrating partially by linking itself to information on Benazir Bhutto's assassination.

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Wal-Mart Closes Video Download Service (Digital Trends)

After a year, Wal-Mart has abruptly shut down its online video download service, claiming Hewlett-Packard discontinued the technology that powered it.

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Apple and Fox Plan Movie Rental Deal - Reports (Baseline)

Apple Inc and Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent Fox movies through Apple's digital iTunes Store, according to media reports on Thursday.

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Google Aims to Be the Platform For Businesses (Baseline)

Google's Dave Girouard discusses the potential for businesses to build on top of Google's infrastructure.

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Popular Apple rumor Web site to shut down (Reuters)

Apple Inc and a popular Web site that published company secrets about the maker of the Mac computer, the iPhone and the iPod have reached a settlement that calls for the site to shut down.

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Future cars will help seniors drive (CNN.com)

For those feeling nervous behind the wheel as old age kicks in, savvy cars may be the answer. Prof. Ryuta Kawashima, who helped develop Nintendo's "Brain Age" games, is teaming with Toyota to develop cars that help seniors drive safely, the researcher said Tuesday.

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Start-up looks to one-up GPS for tracking (Network World)

As two ex-3Com engineers in Salt Lake City were working on a breakthrough in wireless location tracking, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her home nearby in June 2002. The event underlined for Sy Prestwich and Scott Bevan the practical implications of their work to create a wireless infrastructure that was at least as accurate as GPS.

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Facebook ban makes British MP doubt his existence (Reuters)

A British member of Parliament had his Facebook account suspended this week after the popular social networking site decided he wasn't real.

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Internet 'necessary' to Africa's growth (BBC NEWS)

A professor whose work in spreading information technology in Africa has been awarded by the Internet Society has hit out at critics who say the continent should focus first on basics like water and sanitation.

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E-voting activists praise Ohio plan to fix e-voting system (Computer World)

While lauding Ohio officials for a new report that calls for major security and election integrity-related changes in the state's e-voting systems, several e-voting activists today urged state officials to go slow when making wholesale changes ahead of next year's presidential primary and general election.

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Reality check: what we know (and don't) about Windows 7 (Ars Technica)

Only a year after Vista first shipped, anxious Windows fans are already speculating about Microsoft's next release of the dominant desktop operating system, Windows 7. However, not all predictions will come true.

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Save the Planet by Surfing the Web, 'Green' Websites Promise (Wired)

On the internet, anyone can be an environmentalist. All you have to do, is, well, nothing. A number of "green" internet businesses promise users they can help save the planet by doing little more than surfing the right websites.

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Are driverless pods the future? (BBC NEWS)

There are no drivers, no rails, no timetables and no emissions. But, most importantly for passengers, there are no queues.

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Lodestone exhibits electric phase-switching ability at -250F (TG Daily)

An ancient magnetic mineral called lodestone is proving somewhat baffling to modern scientists. By using a new generation of nano-tools, researchers have been able to un-earth a new ability that could have applications in mass storage or computer memory.

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Online office suites barely register with public, says study; that may change as they mature (Ars Technica)

A new study says web-based productivity software is going nowhere fast. Judging from the industry's infancy and successes so far, however, these suites may just need a little more time to take off.

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Software as a Service: Collaboration and Productivity Apps Rising in 2008 (CIO.com)

More than a third of small and large businesses will adopt software as a service (Saas) into their technology portfolio during the next year to help bolster activities such as project management and internal collaboration, according to report by THINKstrategies and the Cutter Consortium.

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Apple's Leopard Sales Roar (Red Herring)

The launch of Apple's latest operating system, Leopard, was its best ever, a research group said on Monday.

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Slide show: 10 crazy USB stocking stuffers (Network World)

Looking for a fun, last-minute little something for that special techie someone? Look no further.

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Is Your Web Site Handicap-Accessible? (BusinessWeek)

Making online access easy use for blind and other disabled users is gaining attention because of class actions against companies like Target.

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Intel pads MID launch with tiny solid state drives (TG Daily)

TG Daily has no doubt, the Mobile Internet Device will turn out to be what the UMPC was intended to become – a mass market pocket computing platform. And Intel finally develops the components such a platform needs to have, including a compact and economical mass storage device.

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Wii Still Dominated November Console Sales (Digital Trends)

The Nintendo Wii still dominated November video game sales, while Activision's Call of Duty 4 was the month's top-selling game, moving more than 2 million copies.

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Who wants to buy AMD? (TG Daily)

AMD's purchase price is decreasing rapidly. Another opportune time to buy up AMD for a song may be headed our way in the very near future. Can AMD's promise of a return to profitibility in the second half of 2008 stave off a buyout?

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FBI Arrests Penn Student in Global Botnet Crackdown (Campus Technology)

The FBI has charged a University of Pennsylvania student and a New Zealand hacker as part of an international probe into the spread of botnets, large replicating malicious software networks, the Associated Press reported.

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Google develops Wikipedia rival (Network World)

Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know, an idea that's close to Wikipedia's user-contributed encyclopedia but with key differences.

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Nobel Winners Call for 'Science Debate', Candidates Spar Over Jesus-Lucifer Link (Wired)

A Who's Who of America's top scientists are launching a quixotic last-minute effort this week to force presidential candidates to detail the role science would play in their administrations -- a question they say is key to the future of the country, if not the world.

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Microsoft Unleashes VMware Killer (Red Herring)

Software beast begins public trials of new virtualization software that competes with programs from VMware. The EMC-owned virtualization company's shares skidded 6 percent lower while Microsoft gained 2.5 percent.

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Bamboo PC is eco-friendly and looks nice too (Reuters)

Back in 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the Apple I, an early personal computer that consisted of a circuit board in a simple wooden box. Apple Inc and other computer makers went on to make advanced PCs in metal and plastic casings, but now Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc is finding potential beauty -- and sales -- in an eco-friendly notebook PC encased in another natural material: bamboo.

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A first look at KDE 4.0 release candidate 2 (Ars Technica)

The second release candidate of KDE 4 was issued earlier this week. Ars takes a look at the feature set and finds plenty to like along with some nasty, hair-sprouting warts. Is one month enough time for the devs to wield the scalpel?

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RIAA: Those CD rips of yours are still "unauthorized" (Ars Technica)

All of that music you've copied from your CDs to your PC and iPod are "unauthorized," according to a court brief filed by the RIAA. It's not surprising, given the testimony from one music industry executive that making copies of your own music is stealing.

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Tempe Wi-Fi Network on the Block (CIO.com)

Municipal Wi-Fi is faltering, but vendor Telscape says better marketing can draw subscribers.

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BSU Standardizes on Apple Hardware for Dual-Boot Initiative (Campus Technology)

In the mixed computing environments common on university campuses, supporting multiple operating systems and myriad hardware configurations can be a nightmare for IT. One solution has been to go with a single platform. Great for IT. Not so great for users. But at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, they've come up with another solution: to standardize the machines but to continue to offer choices in operating systems by providing faculty and students with dual- and triple-boot systems based on Apple hardware.

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'Cloudbook' UMPC to Run Googleish Linux (eWeek)

Everex has confirmed plans to ship a UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) with a 7-inch screen, similar to competitor Asus' EEE PC.

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Microsoft opens Office Live Workspace beta (Computerworld)

First group gets access to online file storage and sharing space, but full public beta is weeks, possibly months, away.

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EMC storage virtualization upgrades bring VMware interoperability (Network World)

EMC today unveiled the first major upgrade to its storage virtualization technology since releasing the product in mid-2005, adding full interoperability with VMware and new features designed to improve availability and scalability.

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Clash of the Titans II:Microsoft vs. Google (Baseline)

If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer always sees Google in his rearview mirror, there's good reason: Google is beating the pants off the Windows folks in terms of perceived value to customers.

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Ultralight Mac notebook rumors gather steam (Computerworld)

Set to debut at January's Macworld, petite portable will cost $1,500, says CNBC.

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Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: OMG! MMORPG on My Cellphone! (Wired)

Second Life on the go? It's a reality for Japanese gals.Mobile tech company Media Groove just launched Chipuya Town, a virtual world accessible on any Flash-enabled keitai.

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AT&T: Our Network Is Already Open (Digital Trends)

In a move to capture some of the PR wave generated by Google and Verizon, AT&T says it already operates the "most open" wireless network. So what's changed?

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Universities bring video games into classrooms (Reuters)

Many parents wish their kids would spend less time at the computer playing games and messaging, and concentrate more on homework, sports or family activities. One university professor, however, has come up with a combined solution that would integrate educational role-playing video games into the classroom.

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Google Enlists iPhone in Mobile War (Red Herring)

The search king continues its assault on the closed mobile business by making its apps available on Apple's iPhone, sending out a battle cry against Microsoft's mobile efforts.

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Why Comcast's rough stretch may be good for its customers (Ars Technica)

Comcast warns investors that the company will fall short of its goals for 2007. That isn't so bad for the rest of us, though.

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Writer Site Red Room Flicks Switch (Red Herring)

Old tech meets new as a new site for book nerds that counts Pulitzer Prize-winning authors among its members unveils a test version.

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Microsoft pulls plug on potty-mouth Santa (Network World)

Turns out Santa himself is naughty and nice. An artificial-intelligence Santa bot operated by Microsoft to talk to children wavered off topic - and Microsoft Tuesday confirmed the bot's potty mouth and snipped Santa's Web connection.

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Windows Vista SP1 to Disable Activation Exploits (eWeek)

Users with counterfeit or nonvalidated software will no longer only get reduced access to features and functionality.

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What’s taking fixed-mobile convergence so long? (Network World)

Fixed-mobile convergence — the seamless switching between cellular and local networks for mobile users — has been hailed for more than three years as a potential boon for enterprise networks. So, where is FMC already?

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