September 23rd, 2008
News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services
Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session
Larry Dignan: Amazon adds Oracle support to EC2
- Video: Oracle unveils Beehive
- Oliver Marks: Oracle’s Beehive: integrated large scale, secure collaboration
- Michael Krigsman: Oracle collaborates with Beehive
- Sam Diaz: Oracle OpenWorld: Looking for some excitement.
- Dennis Howlett: Oracle OpenWorld: a view from the cheap seats
- Smart Turn: blowing up inventory management cost
- Financial cesspits and compliance
Larry Dignan: Adobe launches Creative Suite 4; Likely to top low expectations
Search Engine Land: On Android Eve, Co-Founder Andy Rubin Predicts The Future Of Mobile
Diaz: Search 2.0: compromising privacy for better results?
LA Times: Bank of America website down for five hours
Jason O’Grady: Apple should punt on music subscriptions
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft continues its push to change the rules of the online-advertising game
- Microsoft drops hints about new unified communications offerings
- Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMware
- Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brands
Jason O’Grady: uTorrent Mac client leakedWSJ: Security Consolidation a Good Thing for Tech Buyers
Photos: Searching for Zune-friendly Wi-Fi
Brian Sommer: Will Wall Street Hurt SIs and Outsourcers?
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: NBC To Internet: TV Is Still King
Adam O’Donnell: McAfee buys CipherTr– err, Secure Computing
VentureBeat: The pressure from Google and Apple continues: Verizon goes contract free
TechRepublic: What your help desk needs to do, Part 1
- Stamp out personal use of company Internet access, or… the policy everyone loves to ignore
- A Linux Zealot Examines Microsoft Vista
Matthew Miller: Review: The Nokia E71 is a tough device to beat
- A first look at the BlackBerry Javelin appears and is dubbed a Curve on steroids
- iRex announces 3 new ebook readers priced from $649 to $849
News.com: Microsoft announces $40 billion stock buybackJoe Brockmeier: Will Apple help Android succeed?
- Dana Blankenhorn: How big the Google open source credibility gap
- Open source as a government mandate
Oliver Marks: Evaluating Zoho at GE
Dana Gardner: Complex Event Processing goes mainstream with a boost from TIBCO’s latest solution
Richard Koman: State employee pleads guilty to passport snooping
Heather Clancy: Let there be light: dissigno spurs off-the-grid development
- James Farrar: Intel Tops Dow Jones Sustainabilty Index (again)
Robin Harris: SanDisk’s music-on-flash gamble - will it work?
- Andrew Nusca: microSD music: Are we regressing?
- John Morris: What memory technology is Samsung after?
- Larry Dignan: Ready to buy albums on a memory card? I didn’t think so
Nusca: Next-gen Palm OS coming in early 2009
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?
Christopher Dawson: CAD vs. programming…what should we teach?
Ryan Stewart: Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK
Bits: Battle Over Stolen Goods Sold Online Goes to Washington
Sean Portnoy: Would you use an all-in-one PC as your HDTV?
Webware: Is ShareThis the next Digg?Roland Piquepaille: Instant DNA analysis on a chip
VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets
How much health care spending is discretionary?
John Carroll: SIP is the future of telecommunications
Richard Koman: Comcast submits plan to limit heavy users
- Google needs more transparency for antitrust battles
- FBI searches Kernell apt., roommates subpoenaed
Glitch shuts ‘Big Bang’ collider for two months
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