October 15th, 2008
News to know: Gartner, Firefox 3.1, Apple notebook event, Intel
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Jason Hiner: Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years
Larry Dignan: IT’s challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers
- Are software megavendors too big to stumble?
- Dell negotiations: Street ball without the refs
- Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare next
Techmeme: Firefox 3.1 beta 1 now available for download
Dancho Danchev: Fake Microsoft Patch Tuesday malware campaign spreading
Sam Diaz: LiveBlog: Apple’s notebook event;
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple MacBook 2008 Event
Jason D. O’Grady: Highlights from the Apple notebook event
Robin Harris: Apple notebook hits and misses
Larry Dignan: Apple’s new MacBook line: Affordable enough?
Mary-Jo Foley: ‘I’m a PC. A $999 MacBook still doesn’t tempt me’ (or does it?)
John Morris: Details on Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro updates
Jason D. O’Grady: New notebooks: What Apple didn’t announce
- Confirmed: MacBook drops Firewire; More on Apple’s new Mini DisplayPort
- Highlights from the Apple notebook event
Mary-Jo Foley: ‘I’m a PC. A $999 MacBook still doesn’t tempt me’ (or does it?)
John Morris: Details on Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro updates
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Thoughts on Apple’s new products; Apple’s revamped MacBook line
Video: Apple unveils new multitouch trackpad
Sam Diaz: Intel barely beats for Q3
- Christopher Dawson: OLPC and Intel trumped by small-scale virtualization
Sean Portnoy: New Wi-Fi chipsets promise up to 2x throughput of current 802.11n devices
Garett Rogers: Google blocking Chrome from some countries
- Richard Koman: Google will appeal German copyright decision
Larry Dignan: Yahoo, Google, DOJ play let’s make a deal; Google could walk
Techmeme: Study: Google does a brain good
Christopher Dawson: Child predators apparently don’t use Gmail
Andrew Nusca: Poll: Best personal finance software?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: NVIDIA problems spread to desktop PCs
Dana Gardner: Cast Iron takes ‘integration as a service’ to cloud-based or on-premises deployment
Andrew Nusca: Obama appears on in-game Xbox 360 advertisement
Richard Koman: McCain to YouTube: Respect fair use (at least for pols)
Richard Koman: Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emails
Richard Koman: Bush signs online child protection bills
Richard Koman: Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars
Dana Blankenhorn: What OpenOffice site crash means
Larry Dignan: How green is your vendor?
Zack Whittaker: The University of iTunes
Jennifer Leggio: Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral
Roland Piquepaille: New pulseless total artificial heart
Sean Portnoy: Sherwood America introduces $300 Blu-ray player
Dancho Danchev: Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits
Sam Diaz is a senior editor at ZDNet. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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