November 20th, 2008

News to know: Storm; Holiday gift guide;Lenovo malware; Dell

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:20 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Yahoo! Inc., T-Mobile, Malware, RIM BlackBerry, VUDU, Handhelds, Home Entertainment

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

Josh Taylor: Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm

Gallery: Up close and personal: The BlackBerry Storm

ZDNet’s 2008 Holiday Gift Guide:

• Top 5 Netbooks
• High-end hardware
• Budget home theater setups
• Free cell phones
• The best entry-level digital SLRs
• Top 10 camcorders

Ed Burnette: iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3

Ryan Naraine: Malware found in Lenovo software package

Garett Rogers: Google kills Lively

Roland Piquepaille: Towards a World Wide Grid?

Larry Dignan: Dell: How bad is it?

• Heather Clancy: Dell data dump: More energy ammo for the procurement checklist

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in 2010

Christopher Dawson: I really don’t want to use Windows anymore

Enterprise mashups need complexity to create value

Joe McKendrick: SOA: it’s only rocket science

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Business “Much More Predictable” In Past Two Months, NetSuite Says

• From Peter Chernin to Mark Cuban: Picking Jerry Yang’s Replacement
• News.com: Ballmer: ‘We are done’ with Yahoo acquisition idea
• WSJ: Microsoft Open to Yahoo Search Deal
• Tom Foremski: My pick for the Yahoo CEO job . . .

Joe Brockmeier: Mozilla Project ready for rough economic times

• Mitchell’s blog: Sustainability in Uncertain Times
• Mozilla’s financials: 2007 strong; Portfolio takes 2008 lumps

Brian Sommer: Linking processes and apps in 2008 - A new urgency

Paul Murphy: Which check to write? when open source means Jack

TechCrunch: Yahoo Brings Glue To U.S.: A Plethora of Aggregated Topical Third Party Content

Andrew Nusca: iPhone 3G coming to Walmart, Sam’s Club Dec. 28

• Is the BlackBerry Storm too ‘consumer’? 
• ‘Fish’ = ‘Sex’? iPhone can’t understand British accent

Jennifer Leggio: Social media marketers can - and must - prove ROI

Matthew Miller: Review: OtterBox Impact and Defender Series cases for the BlackBerry Bold

• Image Gallery: OtterBox Impact and Defender cases for the BlackBerry Bold (right)
  
• T-Mobile announces the cameo wireless photo frame to display camera phone images
• T-Mobile USA increases data plan rates for voice customers
• Be careful when syncing your Gmail contacts with the updated BlackBerry sync utility

Michael Krigsman: Stepford: A vision of IT utopia

Dana Blankenhorn: Holding VistA’s age against it

• GE plays the embrace and extend game
• Can database lock-in be broken
• Will identity be open source?

Zack Whittaker: Microsoft give students the finger, once again

CNBC: Xbox Vs. PlayStation With Netflix Caught In The Middle

Signal vs. Noise: Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web

Adam O’Donnell: What does the spam ISP shutdown really mean?

Harry Fuller: Please, give me a few billion, pretty please

• What’s blowin’ in the wind? Alternative energy in China

News.com: Sources: Apple, music labels talk DRM-free songs

Larry Dignan: HP unveils multi-touch consumer laptop/tablet

• Gallery: HP offers multi-touch consumer notebook/tablet

Oliver Marks: Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

Richard Koman: Witnesses set for MySpace suicide trial

Internet stars come out for RIAA trial

John Morris: First Core i7 desktops from Dell, Alienware and Gateway

Sam Diaz: Can a price cut, TV ad give Zune a lift?

• VUDU shuns economic reality; targets high-end

Christopher Dawson: Did Microsoft really kill OLPC?

• Great educational websites (and an intro to Diigo)