September 17th, 2008
News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3
- Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer
- VMware’s Datacenter OS: Windows isn’t the competition
Dancho Danchev: Google downplays Chrome’s carpet-bombing flaw
- Adam O’Donnell: Even Mac users have to patch
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal Downloads
Jason Perlow: Economic crisis as a technology change agent
- Larry Dignan: Forrester cuts 2009 IT spending projections
- Dell: Demand is worse than we thought; Ingram Micro agrees; Best Buy misses
- Adobe allays worries; Sets up for CS4 launch
- Fred Wilson: Leave Wall Street, Join A Startup
- Bits: Silicon Valley Layoff Watch: Is eBay Next?
- Dennis Howlett: Seesmic layoffs and a new reality?
Robin Harris: Your capacity will varyJohn Morris: First reviews of HP’s HDX 16- and 18.4-inch laptops
Financial Times: Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman
WSJ: Samsung Makes Bid for SanDisk
Phil Wainewright: NetSuite parts ways with largest reseller
Michael Krigsman: J.Crew: Failed upgrade hits financial performance
Photo: Is that an LCD on your back?
Dana Blankenhorn: Is HP working on a proprietary Linux fork?
Paul Murphy: Why “better” often doesn’t sell
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: DECE - Lipstick on the DRM pig
Mozilla admits that Firefox EULA is flawed
- Ryan Stewart: So wait, Firefox is a fax machine?
- Joe Brockmeier: Mozilla: We goofed on the EULA, let’s talk
Jennifer Leggio: Social networks more popular than porn
Dennis Howlett: A moment of lucidity
Zack Whittaker: PacketTrap gives enterprise “Perspective”. 
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TechRepublic: How do I… Run Linux/UNIX clients on Windows with XWin32 Live?
- Enabling the Windows Server Backup feature in Windows Server 2008
- Why outsourcing is scaring off potential CS students
Computerworld: Lehman Brothers invested in IT despite credit crunch
Heather Clancy: Tech trade-ins: Two new options for extending the life of your mobile phone
CIO Sessions: Cisco CIO: Rebecca Jacoby
Photos: Lucas launches new ‘Star Wars’ game
YouTube profit (and revenue) watch intensifies
- Google: The future of online video
Richard Koman: Groups fear secret IP treatyGigaOM Interview: Bill Hambrecht, Legendary Silicon Valley Banker
Paula Rooney: Maritz: VMware’s Virtual DataCenter OS, VMware View is better next gen operating system than Windows and Hyper-V
- Dan Kusnetzky: Notes from VMworld
- Citrix aims high with XenServer 5, cloud center
- VMware rolls out Fusion 2.0 for Mac virtualization
- Citrix launches XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3)
- TechRepublic: Can VMware supercede Linux and Windows servers with its Virtual Datacenter OS?
Brian Sommer: Is That Non-Compete Too Broad?
AP: McCain Invented Blackberry? Adviser Says He Helped
Sam Diaz: What makes Web shoppers click “Buy” or “Bye”?
Joshua Greenbaum: Microsoft Dynamics Goes for the Mid-market (Again)
Photos: LAN mania hits S.F.Garett Rogers: Google Desktop gets huge performance boost
Matthew Miller: Google Android device will be announced on T-Mobile on 23 September
- BlackBerry Storm video and Verizon Q&A posted
- Star Wars Force Unleashed now available in the iPhone App store
- Zune 3.0 now available, also get free WiFi access at McDonald’s
Roland Piquepaille: First true 3-D processor runs in labs
Andrew Nusca: Best Buy Geek Squad ‘Black Tie Protection’ promises premium service, cummerbunds
- Zune Wi-Fi coming to a McDonald’s near you
- Google-based T-Mobile ‘Dream’ coming next month
- ‘John McCain invented the Blackberry’
Jason O’Grady: Google releases Gears for Safari
Christopher Dawson: It’s OK to outsource
Jennifer Leggio: And in this corner… Present.ly packs a solid punch against Yammer
Video: How HP’s layoffs will impact IT
Paul Miller: Cognition Technologies unveils their Semantic Map
- Powerset studies student use of Wikipedia… and faculty resistance
- Oliver Marks: Sophisticated Customer Relationship Collaboration with MindTouch & SnapLogic
Kingsley-Hughes: The “As close to $150 as you can get it” PC
Richard Koman: EU scrutinizes Google-Yahoo deal
Janice Chen: More hints about the Canon EOS 5D replacement
Leaked Homeland Security doc warns of data threats
Porn passed over as Web users become social–author
Harry Fuller: One, long unbroken string of weather records–what do they tell us?
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