September 15th, 2008
News to know: Google; Text messaging; Spam; Microsoft
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Learning From The Train Wreck Of Text Messaging
Garett Rogers: Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts
Jason Perlow: Microsoft: It’s time to consummate the marriage with Citrix already
Heather Clancy: Software for the green of art, or Autodesk gets green-minded with its design applications
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week (right)
Dancho Danchev: Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- Richard Koman: Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional
- Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First Amendment
Techmeme: Developers vs. iPhone App store
Oliver Marks: Next Generation Cost Effective IT Infrastructure
Barrons: Low Bid: Why eBay Shares Trade Near Their Five-Year Low
VentureBeat: Seagate elbowing its way further into consumer backup market
Dana Blankenhorn: Ubuntu should not copy the Mac. Does interoperability violate the GPL?
NewTeeVee: P2P Is Coming To YouTube
Mary Jo Foley: About those Windows Live Messenger outages...
Josh Taylor: iPhone 2.1 first impressions: So far, so good
- Jason O’Grady: The iPhone Dev Team vs. Apple arms race
- Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs iPhone code execution holes
- Ed Bott: Apple rolls back problem driver in new iTunes 8 update
- Matthew Miller: Check out the latest and greatest iPhone apps on a new aggregator site
Deb Perelman: It’s all email’s fault
Computerworld: Man accused in TJX data breach pleads guilty
Sean Portnoy: Two new apps turn smartphones into Wi-Fi hotspots
Joe Brockmeier: Foiled by Facebook? Mangled by mailing lists? Employers do take note
Sam Diaz: Microsoft ads are still shoulder-tapping. OK. OK. I’m listening already.
- Kingsley-Hughes: Gates and Seinfeld - Part Deux
- Video: Microsoft’s rough start to a new beginning
Dave Greenfield: Immersive Cocoon: The Answer for the 3-D Internet?
NYT: Capturing the Moment (and More) via Cellphone Video
Jason O’Grady: Save Pandora, Apple
Matthew Miller: Video look at the Palm Treo Pro, my soon-to-be new daily device
Deb Perelman: My Awesome IT Job: Web developer, Martha Stewart, Webmaster, Emeril Lagasse
Dan Kusnetzky: Hurricane Ike and some class acts
Photos: Hurricane Hunters fly into Ike (right)
Roland Piquepaille: First synthetic tree mimics transpiration
- Biogerontechnology impact in 2025
- Nanotechnology-based flexible actuators
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First synthetic tree mimics transpiration
Dana Blankenhorn: Dr. House meets HAL
Joe McKendrick: What the business doesn’t know about SOA won’t hurt it (Part 2). Part 1
Reuters: Electronic Arts ends merger talks with Take Two
Sam Diaz: Yahoo: Open is not just ‘Flavor of the Month.’
Japan is Web “Future-Ready.” U.S. lags far behind.
- Private browsing becomes the new cool feature.
- Ryan Naraine: Browser Wars 2.0: Firefox scrambles to add ‘private mode’ browsing
Andrew Mager: Bear Hug Camp: a microblogging meetup
- Jennifer Leggio: Yammer wins TechCrunch50; enterprises lose
Koman: China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymity
Judge: Probable cause required for location info
Hackers deface LHC site, came close to turning off particle detector
Christopher Dawson: Still loving my BlackBerry
Larry Dignan: Wanna get green? Compress your email; Couple IT, facilities; Power down
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