December 1st, 2008

News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs

Posted by Sam Diaz @ 2:00 am

Categories: News to know

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware

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

Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates (good and bad) maturation point of social media

• Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail
• Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks : Knowledge is Power

Larry Dignan: Icahn averages down on Yahoo; Searches for break even

• Icahn: ‘I like Jerry’; Yahoo needs Microsoft search deal
• Techmeme: “Total Fiction:” There is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal to Buy Yahoo Search (Not Yet, at Least!)

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Shopping - How do you do it?

• US Apple Store savings better, still hardly worth getting out of bed for
• Apple Store Australia/UK shows lackluster discounts
• Techmeme: Black Friday Web Sales Jump

Sean Portnoy: Surveys show consumers love HDTVs, but show some confusion about HD programming

Matthew Miller: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Portable digital video players

• Joost streaming video application appears for the iPhone

Garett Rogers: Microsoft still fighting a losing battle against Google

Phil Fersht: How should companies approach outsourcing in this economy?

Heather Clancy: IBM, HP update workflow and forms software with an eye to cutting paper waste

• Chill-Off project tests various recipes for real-world data center cooling

Richard Koman: The verdict: Lori Drew is guilty.

• Mom wants Drew to serve the max - three years and $300,000

Heather Clancy: Catholic Church flirts with green tech of the solar sort

• Aclara application provides consumers with hourly visibility into electricity usage

Jason D. O’Grady: The App Store hits a milestone: 10,000 apps

Jason Perlow: Christmas and Holiday Cards for Geeks

Paul Murphy: Some seriously good advice from “Narg”

Brian Sommer: Taleo: Management’s comments regarding their November to forget

Adam O’Donnell: Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base

Harry Fuller: Will Detroit run out of road?

• Keeping clean for clean energy

 Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #155, Nokia Legends, Lotus Notes on S60, & BlackBerry Storm

• David Pogue forecasts a depression for the Storm and I completely agree

Zack Whittaker: Wired vs. wireless - security vs. speed

Dana Blankenhorn: How open should your open source business strategy be

• What might end Apple’s open source pass
• Christopher Dawson: Crappy economy = great time for open source in schools

Sean Portnoy: Netgear readying Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9000 media-streaming device

Sam Diaz: SMS fees impacting Twitter feature

• If networking can be hip and cool, then so can storage

Dancho Danchev: Microsoft’s Live launches malware detection service for webmasters

Garett Rogers: Your guide to disabling SearchWiki

Oliver Marks: Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall

David Morgenstern: Seagate offers fix for problematic Barracuda drives on Mac/Linux systems

Harry Fuller: Go, Carts, Go! Trumps “drill, baby, drill.”

Roland Piquepaille: The fastest mandible strike in the world

• Smart and interactive textile structures

Dan Kusnetzky: Business Service Automation: HP and Virtualization

• Thanksgiving: Some of the things that make me thankful

Roland Piquepaille: The world’s most powerful virtual telescope

• NASA and DoE team on dark energy research

Joanne Blamberger: Don’t call me a ‘mommyblogger’ - the Motrin brouhaha

Paul Miller: Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward

Dana Blankenhorn: Cyberchondria or did Microsoft miss market again?

• The good news about cancer