It's been just a week, and BoomTown is rocking out in the DonorsChoose.org's Blogger Challenge 2008, with almost $4,000 raised! It started a week ago, with us featuring a video from my hell-froze-over dinner with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who ably endured a meal with me in support of the many school

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081007/a-donorschoose-high-school-musical-a-very-awkward-dance-for-the-kids/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker

Emerge Desktop provides a cleaner Windows desktop

Blog | www.downloadsquad.com | 50 minutes ago

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware<a

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/07/emerge-desktop-provides-a-cleaner-windows-desktop/

Dow plummets 500+ points

News | news.cnet.com | 1 hour 2 minutes ago

The Dow Jones takes another wild ride, free falling 508.39 points - marking a second consecutive day it has ended the session below 10,000. Read this blog post by Dawn Kawamoto on News - Business Tech.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10060295-92.html

Banks Threatened by Mouse Clicks

News | www.eweek.com | 1 hour 14 minutes ago

Runs on banks can now happen invisibly and more swiftly than ever thanks to the Internet. Customers who have lost confidence in the financial security of their banks can withdraw money in large quantities without leaving their homes. - AMSTERDAM/LONDON (Reuters) What if there were a run on a

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Banks-Threatened-by-Mouse-Clicks/?kc=rss

Mega-church steps up criticism of white spaces plan

News | www.itworld.com | 1 hour 13 minutes ago

ITworld.com helps information technology professionals make informed strategic decisions by providing insight on a wide range of technical topics, including security, storage, networking, wireless, utility computing, and open source. The site includes articles, white papers, webcasts, research,

http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/55796/mega-church-steps-criticism-white-spaces-plan

Alcatel-Lucent Completes Acquisition of Motive, Inc.

Press Release | www.prnewswire.com | 1 hour 15 minutes ago

Acquisition enables Alcatel-Lucent to enhance consumers' 'digital life' by better managing the distribution of video and other multimedia content throughout their homes and beyond PARIS and AUSTIN, Texas, Oct.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-07-2008/0004899879&EDATE=

Windows 2008 Server Core Configurator

Blog | blogs.technet.com | 1 hour 16 minutes ago

Me entero hoy a travs de mi nuevo compaero Jos Mara de que Guy Teverovsky ha tenido algn problema a la hora de seguir desarrollando CoreConfigurator y que su descarga ha sido retirada por su antiguo empleador.

http://blogs.technet.com/davidcervigon/archive/2008/10/07/windows-2008-server-core-configurator.aspx

Behind The Maps - Processing Framework

Blog | blogs.msdn.com | 1 hour 17 minutes ago

Hey everyone. I just published our third episode in our video series, Behind the Maps. In this episode I follow the imagery to Boulder, CO where I meet David Simons from our Vexcel Division and Tom Barclay who is from Microsoft Research. They walk us

http://blogs.msdn.com/markbrown/archive/2008/10/07/behind-the-maps-processing-framework.aspx