November 17th, 2008
News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now
Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who’s buying?
- Paul Murphy: How Intel’s Nehalem will benefit AMD
Sam Diaz: Tech workforce pinched by economy, feeling like 2003
Jason Perlow: Kindle Economics
- Christopher Dawson: OLPC is dead…What Kindlenomics taught us
- Amazon and OLPC…First G1G1 picture this year
- $400 XOs and recessions
CNET News: Adobe wants to bridge gap between PCs and cloud
Ryan Naraine: Sun plugs holes in StarOffice
Roland Piquepaille: 1,000-device personal networks in 2017?
Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week (Vaio right)
Papermaster countersues; IBM to put up $3M
Phil Wainewright: How much does Exchange really cost?
NYT: Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? Yes He Can, Maybe
- Richard Koman: Obama faces BlackBerry withdrawal
- Net neutrality battle will restart in January
- Phil Fersht: Can flagging industries be replaced by BPO services?
Jason O’Grady: Apple seeks iPhone expertise in China
AdAge: Why Yahoo Still Matters for YouGadget Lab: USB 3.0 to Deliver a Tenfold Speed Increase
John Morris: AMD’s Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal
- Larry Dignan: Netbooks, mini-notebooks, ultraportables and semantic fun with AMD
- CNET News: AMD: Netbooks? No thanks
- Andrew Nusca: Nvidia cutting prices to counter AMD gains?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD’s latest roadmaps offer hope - if the company can stick to them!
Jason Perlow: Preparing for a Flickr Apocalypse (Updated, with Yahoo response)
Sean Portnoy: Maxtor drops Central Axis Business Edition 2TB network-attached-storage device
Matthew Miller: Should RIM also license Exchange ActiveSync?
Nusca: Engineering, tech ’suddenly sexy’ for college grads
NYT: Online Age Verification for Children Brings Privacy Worries
Dana Gardner: BriefingsDirect analysts review new SOA governance book, propose scope for U.S. tech czar
John Carroll: Computers make the case for globalization
Ubuntu to run on ARM-based netbooks
Jennifer Leggio: Social media will not kill PR, but it does expose industry weakness
- Oliver Marks: Lessons from Twitterank launch
- TechCrunch: Twitter’s Hockey Stick Moment
Christopher Dawson: Going paperless…Are we really saving money?
Brian Sommer: BearingPoint’s Q3 earnings call - part 1
Joe McKendrick: Whatever happened to the ‘middle’ in middleware?
Janice Chen: Fujifilm ressurects the “Polaroid” and announces Instax 200 instant film camera
Dignan: The perks of free agency with Verizon Wireless
Diaz: i-Cards: the next SSN?
Heather Clancy: NextWorth offers special tech trade-in program for military personnel
- Just in time for the holiday madness, UPS embraces new green packaging label solution
- Koman: Court’s decision is boon for alternative energy
- Harry Fuller: Give ‘em the cash, forget fuel efficiency
- Oerlikon Solar sees a shining future despite dark clouds over Wall Street
- Gallery: Inside the SF Green Festival (right)
Joe Brockmeier: Will OpenID catch on?
Garett Rogers: Google’s iPhone voice search delayed too?
Dana Blankenhorn: DSPs changing medical practice
Jason O’Grady: Evernote adds offline notes
- Free magazines on your iPhone
- Nusca: Businesses warming up to Apple iPhone
- Apple sued over hairline cracks in iPhone 3G
- The UrbanSpoon effect
Roland Piquepaille: Swarms of small satellites coming soon
Sean Portnoy: Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.
Gallery: How to convert AAC to MP3 the easy way (right)
Joe McKendrick: IDC-HP study: SOA targets the business, but is the business sold on SOA?
- Dana Gardner: Interview: rPath’s Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud use
Paul Murphy: Storage Analytics meets Tufte
Nusca: Weekend Gadget Guidance: Prevent auto Windows shutdown, reboot
Fast Company: Digg Bans 20-30 Users for Hate Speech In Response to Fast Company’s Women in Web 2.0
Microsoft launches online store: Is there deeper meaning here?
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