November 21st, 2008
News to know: Dell; Army bans USB drives; Salesforce; Microsoft
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Larry Dignan: Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand ‘challenging’
- Sam Diaz: Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising.
- Unsealed court filing: HP’s Hurd had Vista concerns
Ryan Naraine: Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drives
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Big Brains: John Shewchuk
Jason O’Grady: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Bargain Apples
Roland Piquepaille: A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroids
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft: Free anti-malware for all (Windows users)!
Bits: Debating the Vices and Virtues of Google
Ed Burnette: iPhone vs. Android development: Day 4
Jennifer Leggio: Don’t brandjack the Shaq - and watch your client’s back
EIC podcast: Jerry Yang; BlackBerry Storm; Gadgets
Joe Brockmeier: Gartner tries to scare businesses adopting open source
- Jason Perlow: Sex, Rock and Roll, and Open Source Reporting Frameworks
- Dana Blankenhorn: An open source fundraiser for the ages
- Some open source attacks on Windows may be unfair
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Video Is Not The Future of the Internet. It’s the Present.
Photos: Nokia, Navteq team up as traffic monitors
Webware: Google SearchWiki brings custom search results
Michael Krigsman: 5 reasons to kill IT projects
Sean Portnoy: Vizio unveils $1,999.99 55-inch 120Hz LCD HDTV for January release
Sam Diaz: Amazon CTO: Cloud infrastructure keeps companies focused on innovation
NYT: Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
Jennifer Leggio: Fortune 500 series: How OfficeMax uses social media
Heather Clancy: It’s green report card season: Proclamations from IBM, SAP, Toshiba and Xerox
Ars Technica: Canadian regulators allow P2P throttling
Photos: Gadgets we’re thankful for, part 1 (right)
Online advertising growth stalls from second quarter to third quarter
Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support
Larry Dignan: Subscription music services: Are we there yet?
Matthew Miller: Thanks Microsoft, I will now subscribe to the Zune Pass
IAB: Internet Advertising Revenues in Q3 ‘08 at Nearly $5.9 Billion
Dan Kusnetzky: Wyse, more than just thin clients
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