Telecom: Waxing poetic, Paul Venezia puts a new, modern-day tech spin on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's similarly-titled poem in Sonnets from the Portugese. Only Venezia isn't counting up the ways he loves his DSL provider, no, something quite different. "Why must this be so difficult, so painful?" he begins O Verizon, how I loathe thee. "Why must you spurn me at every opportunity, causing me to rend my clothing and speak in tongues? This hold you have over me is distressing."

Sustainable IT: The latest IT product fray to turn green is workplace and resource management, thanks to PeopleCube's Resource Scheduler, Ted Samson reports. Green features bloom in unexpected places. The company seeded Resource Scheduler with the capability to remotely monitor and control lighting and HVAC for facilities a customer oversees and, for instance, to turn off the air conditioning and lights in an empty conference room.

Show of the week: Demo 08, now in video. See the best of 77 startups pitching their idea to VCs and investors. Watch them here.

The news beat: In reaction to Autonomy's white paper claiming Google's Search Appliance does not index all of a customer's critical data, Google slams Autonomy, but Autonomy was not alone in its criticisms. Phishers are using DNS tricks to lure Web surfers to malicious sites at an increasing rate. At least two PC makers, other than Apple, will use the Core 2 Duo chip Intel built for the MacBook Air in systems that, one source says, will be announced shortly. And Forrester Research predicts that the days of super-size software consolidations are largely over.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on January 31, 2008 10:04 AM