November 24th, 2008
News to know: Kumo; Zune; Storm; Google
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Mary Jo Foley: Would you ‘Kumo’ it?
Phil Wainewright: When to spend cash in a SaaS business
- Brian Sommer: Taleo’s November to forget
Jason Perlow: Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook business
Ed Bott: Why the new Zune Pass should be irresistible
Matthew Miller: White T-Mobile G1 appearing, same lame keyboard lighting as the brown one?
- Nokia Reliability Labs puts the heat on Nokia devices
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: The ultimate smartphones
- Garett Rogers: Google adds contact syncing for your Blackberry
Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don’t just want to use Ubuntu?
BoomTown: When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled
Oliver Marks: Is Command & Control Management Inefficient?
TechCrunch: Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers
Boy Genius Report: The real story behind the Verizon BlackBerry Storm OS?
- A guide to cutting IT costsWill email and text messages get shorter with the BlackBerry Storm?
- Andrew Nusca: Lines out door, around corner for BlackBerry Storm
Gallery: Blackberry Storm user interface (right)
Jason O’Grady: Advantages of the iPhone over the Storm
- New MacBook Pro performance degrades with the battery removed
- iPhone 2.2 firmware released
- iTunes 8.0.2 out the door
- Ryan Naraine: iPhone update kills 12 security bugs
- David Morgenstern: iPhone jailbreakers: Problems with QuickPwn?
Roland Piquepaille: Watching the nanoworld in 4-D
A computer composing and playing jazz
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The old “install this codec to see free porn” trick works on Mac too!
Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget hardware
- Sean Portnoy: 2008 Holiday Buying Guide: Midrange home theater setups
- Andrew Nusca: Black Friday ‘08: Deals, steals & specials guide
Larry Dignan: SAP’s Apotheker: ‘Happy John Wookey joined us’; Business hasn’t gotten worse
Paul Murphy: Sun reseller contactsMary Jo Foley: Still more questions than answers about Microsoft Morro
John Morris: Details of AMD’s Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking out
- Kingsley-Hughes: AMD’s Phenom II shows overclocking potential
San Francisco Chronicle: Tough times in Silicon Valley, but some hiring
Dan Farber: Lifestreaming in Obamaland
NYT: Now, Brevity Is the Soul of Office Interaction
Facebook: This video showcases a Hackathon project that visualizes all the data Facebook receives.
Heather Clancy: Xerox turns down the heat, saves power with green printing innovation
- Deep in the heart of Texas: Electronics recycling infrastructure expanded
- IT resellers encouraged to spread the EPEAT green gospel
- Richard Koman: A $1 billion plan for car-charging network
- Harry Fuller: H2O + C = cool idea
Jennifer Leggio: Pop-up ads on LinkedIn? How very MySpace
Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week (right)
Larry Dignan: Verizon Wireless: Our employees breached Obama’s cell phone records
Paul Murphy: The brutal truth - but not, I think, about Vista.
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP
Garett Rogers: Gmail exploit lets attackers forward your email to them
Ed Burnette: iPhone vs. Android development: Day 5
Holiday Gift Guide 2008: MP3 players
Tom Foremski: Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source and health care reform
Sam Diaz: Apple’s ad spend almost a half-billion dollars
- Facebook scores SEC exemption
- Google Chrome to be pre-installed on PCs in 2009?
- Corporate holiday parties: Is there reason to celebrate?
Joe McKendrick: Can a dose of SOA relieve tension?
Oliver Marks: Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration
Gallery: Virgin America’s Wi-Fi in the sky
Paula Rooney: Ulteo offers server based computing solution for Linux desktops, apps
- Zack Whittaker: Enterprise 2.0 solution reduces email abuse
Andrew Mager: A live, more interactive Rev3
Phil Fersht: Investing in the right vehicles for change
- Harry Fuller: Can savior-elect resurrect General Motors?
- Science, research and the politics of grantmanship
Zack Whittaker: Student Technology Day: session videos now online
Christopher Dawson: Go ahead…Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?
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