November 13th, 2008

News to know: Storm; AMD, Intel; Tech economy reels

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:15 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Apple iPhone, Best Buy Co. Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Shanghai, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:

Josh Taylor: Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing

Larry Dignan: AMD unveils ‘Shanghai’; Aims to better compete with Intel

• AMD: Does the resurrection start with ‘Shanghai’?
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD introduces 45nm quad-core “Shanghai” Opteron processors
• Intel’s fourth quarter unravels

Ryan Naraine: Firefox security makeover: 11 vulnerabilities, 4 critical

• Why did Microsoft wait 7 years to fix SMBRelay attack flaw?
• Adam O’Donnell: Spam rates massively down on shutdown of rogue ISP
• Dancho Danchev: Google fixes critical XSS vulnerability
• $10k hacking contest announced

Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft’s kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?

• In tight times, Microsoft launches two new servers

• Windows 7 and netbooks: Separating fact from speculation
• Images: Hands-on look at Windows 7 multitouch
• Microsoft starts rolling out IE 6 for Windows Mobile
• Zack Whittaker: Pre-release Windows 7 needs feature switch mode
• Andrew Nusca: First Photos: Windows Mobile 6.5

Nick Denton: A 2009 Internet Media Plan

Brian Sommer: Social network for CEOs – best practices

• NetSuite and HP

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Press “Upload” on that Video: “Point Is Not To Bust People,” Says NBC

CNBC: Apple iPhone Gets The Business From Citrix

• Sam Diaz: With Citrix, iPhone is more attractive to business

EIC podcast: Best Buy’s fall; Obama’s CTO, Microhoo; Search wars

• Larry Dignan: Best Buy cuts outlook; Sees ‘most difficult climate ever seen’
• John Morris: First laptops “designed by” Best Buy look like winners
• Gallery: Best Buy-designed HP and Toshiba notebooks (right)
  

Matthew Miller: HTC announces world’s first GSM/WiMAX mobile phone

• Nokia working to reduce traffic congestion
• Nokia E63 announced; mass market QWERTY device
• MySpace for BlackBerry now available
• Sam Diaz: Phonetopp bringing Web conferences to smartphones

Jason O’Grady: Micro projector connects to iPhone

• Episode 96: PowerPage Podcast

CNET News: LG, Sharp, Chunghwa admit to LCD price fixing

Nusca: To heck with the Kindle: Sony Reader PRS-700 reviewed

• Nokia’s answer to BlackBerry Pearl Flip, or Motorola RAZR?

Oliver Marks: Twitterank Creator SpeaksTechCrunch: Yahoo Almost To $10.  Referee, Please Call This Fight.

• Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network!

Paul Murphy: Working at 99% CPU utilization

Are visits to massage parlors and bars impacting your credit?

Tom Foremski: Silicon Valley’s top awards

Oliver Marks: Gullible Twitter users hand over their usernames and passwords - did you get your Twitterank yet?!

Dana Blankenhorn: Dismissing the open source bear at the door

• The key to making health IT reform work

AppleInsider: Apple may launch most aggressive Black Friday sale yet

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: OK, so who are the idiots that respond to spam email?

• Washington Post: Host of Internet Spam Groups is Cut Off

AP: NetApp 2Q profit drops 41 percent

• Computer Sciences 3Q forecast misses Street

Larry Dignan: Google earnings estimates cut (again); Search budgets scrutinized; Shares fall

• Money talks: Microsoft edges closer to Verizon search deal

Andrew Nusca: Review: Why Android is for me and the G1 isn’t

• CES 2009 Preview (right)

Michael Krigsman: Cadillacs recalled over software bug

Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year

Dana Blankenhorn: There is good news tonight at Black Duck

• Fear the Googler, not the Google
• Aging equipment or none at all?

Dana Gardner: IDC research shows enterprise SOA adoption deepens based on certain critical practices

• Dan Kusnetzky: Ncomputing the benefits of operating system virtualization
• Oliver Marks: Oracle Gadgets: Flexible Desktop Access to CRM Data Goldmines…

Heather Clancy: CES gets the carbon treatment

Richard Koman: IBM to manage broadband over power lines at rural coops

• A year after YouTube ban, Pentagon launches TroopTube

Images: Phoenix Lander’s life on Mars (and Earth) (right)

Jennifer Leggio: Spoke resorts to fear tactics, loses credibility

The Social: MySpace launches searchable video widget

Sam Diaz: Vudu takes HD lead; enough to stay alive?

Roland Piquepaille: A protein version of a Vermeer masterwork

Jason O’Grady: Rumor: AT&T to charge $30 per month for tethering

• Dictionary: Offline Wikipedia viewer for iPhone
• iPhone firmware due on 21 November

Qualcomm floats ‘PC alternative’ 3G deviceYahoo tests new front door interface

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Steve Jobs for President. Of GM?

Christopher Dawson: I think voice is going to be a big deal

• Why can’t kids text in context?