November 11th, 2008
News to know: Windows 7; Google; iPhone; Storm; iLife patch
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 - The “Blue Badge” experience. Gallery (right)
Michael Krigsman: Sixteen IT failures to remember
Garett Rogers: Google makes the blogosphere more universal
Is tech headed for a Bah Humbug holiday season?
Jason Hiner: SIM’s 2008 Survey: Organizations are looking to IT for help, not cuts
Jason O’Grady: No penalty for MacBooks with 6GB; also works in some 2007 models
- Matthew Miller: mophie Juice Pack for iPhone 3G now shipping
Larry Dignan: Blackberry Storm set for Nov. 17 lift-off?
- NPD: iPhone top dog in declining consumer handset market
- Matthew Miller: First impressions of the RIM BlackBerry Bold
Image Gallery: First Impressions of the BlackBerry Bold
Ryan Naraine: Apple ships patch for iLife security flaws
- ‘Memoryze’ utility pinpoints malware code in live memory
- CNET Download.com not so ’spyware-free’
- Dancho Danchev: Cyber terrorists to face death penalty in Pakistan
- Koobface Facebook worm still spreading
Deb Perelman: Is there a better way to be handed a pink slip?
VentureBeat: Yahoo’s BrowserPlus continues to dismantle wall between browser and desktop
Mary Jo Foley: Sun switches search alliances from Google to Microsoft
Fortune: The genius behind Steve. Sam Diaz: Will Tim Cook be the next Steve Jobs?
Dennis Howlett: SAP’s UK users don’t get it - yet
Nortel’s rerun: Another purge, another restructuring
- Dave Greenfield: Nortel’s Loss, Good News for the Enterprise
TechRepublic: Tip: Working with VMware Workstation from the Command Line
Paul Murphy: The need for a mixed load benchmark
Roland Piquepaille: A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?
- Dana Gardner: Solving IT energy conservation issues requires holistic approach to management and planning, say HP experts
- Heather Clancy: Coming soon, but not really soon enough: A certification to weed out shady electronics recyclers
- Harry Fuller: Alternative energy still powerful, says report
Jason O’Grady: RichardSolo doubles capacity of iPhone battery
Ryan Stewart: Aviary launches with brand new domain, pricing model
Robin Harris: Where flash belongs
Review: ThermaPAK Memory Foam Laptop HeatShift Bag (15.4-inch, navy)
Sean Portnoy: Visionman Allio 32-inch and 42-inch HDTVs with built-in PCs debut
Tom Foremski: ExpertCEO for the lonely CEO . . .
- Paul Miller: Dapper incentivises structuring of web data with MashupAds
- Kevin Kelly points to the Semantic Web at Web 2.0 Summit
Joe Brockmeier: Despite weak economy, strong demand for community managers
Christopher Dawson: Why aren’t we all using Wikispaces?
All Things D: Time Inc. to Employees: Want to Quit? We’re All Ears [MediaMemo]
Andrew Nusca: Are you being gouged on your cable bill?
Joe McKendrick: Still coding after all these years….
Techdirt: Bill Gates’ New Career? Patent Troll For Nathan Myhrvold?
Dan Kusnetzky: What’s next after server virtualization? Orchestration
ReadWriteWeb: VideoCrawler: AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine
The IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle: How far does a non-compete go?
Video: ‘60 Minutes’: Cleaning up recycling (Part 1)
Dana Blankenhorn: ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fears
Big telecom acquiring a Google fixation
End the open source obsession with Microsoft
eWeek: VMware Wants to Bring Virtualization to Your Smart Phone
Andrew Nusca: iPhone tops RAZR as most-purchased U.S. consumer handset
- Jason O’Grady: iPhone tops RAZR in sales; twice as reliable as Blackberry
- Pacemaker problem not about the iPod
DHL ends U.S. operations, cuts 9,500 jobs
Sun launches Open Storage line
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