December 5th, 2008
News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending
- Jason D. O’Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo
- Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales
Jason D. O’Grady: Say hello to the $99 iPhone
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Would a $99 price tag turn the iPhone into a RAZR?
- Andrew Nusca: More rumors: Apple to sell $99 iPhone at Walmart
Garett Rogers: Where is Google’s SMS feature?
EIC podcast: Yahoo trial balloons; Mumbai and Twitter; E-commerce
James Farrar: Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?
Sean Portnoy: Buffalo Technology moves closer to returning to U.S. Wi-Fi router market
Ryan Naraine: Secunia: Less than 2% of Windows PCs fully patched
Robin Harris: Seagate’s “random freeze” problem: worse than reported?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to tweak ‘compatibility view’ with next IE 8 test build
Andrew Nusca: Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for
Sam Diaz: Facebook Connect goes live; Tell your favorite Web site
Dion Hinchcliffe: The emerging case for open business methods
Dana Blankenhorn: Can the Internet drive a health care consensus?
Heather Clancy: First cell towers, now solar panels? Expect squawking over “appropriate” sites
Harry Fuller: American auto industry low on fuel and popular support
Matthew Miller: Gartner Q3 2008 data shows iPhone passes Windows Mobile and Nokia has first decline
- PDAmill launches eight games for the iPhone/iPod touch, most 99 cents
- Turn your iPod touch into a VoIP phone with Truphone
- iPod touch gets VoIP, steals some iPhone thunder
Paul Miller: Metatomix seeks to bridge divide between structured and unstructured information
VIDEO: Where’s Netbook’s niche?
Jason D. O’Grady: 588 Kleiner Perkins iFund developers accidentally leaked to Web
Mary Jo Foley: Former Yahoo exec to head Microsoft Online Services; Former aQuantive chief quits
Sam Diaz: NYT takes new approach, taps blogs to keep readers informed
Larry Dignan: Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud
Matthew Miller: I just ordered the Agora Pro Google Android device for less than $300
Joe McKendrick: Market player machinations may warp, but not ‘kill’, SOA
Andrew Kingsley-Hughes: Clearing up the 32/64-bit memory limit confusion
Michael Krigsman: Coding Slave: ‘Software is expensive’
Larry Dignan: i2, JDA call off merger
Andrew Nusca: Vintage gadgets on display in NYC
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Opera 10.0 alpha 1 is impressive, but does it stand a chance against Firefox?
Paul Greenberg: CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped
Dancho Danchev: With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crack
Dana Blankenhorn: Is China an open source friend or foe?
Dennis Howlett: LeWeb sold out
Dave Greenfield: WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business
Dan Kusnetzky: Owen Bird Law Corporation a Virtual Iron Customer
Ed Burnette: Schwartz: Three reasons you need JavaFX
Paula Rooney: IBM launches first Linux-OpenOffice desktop with virtualization features
Roland Piquepaille: Nuclear fusion as future power source
Sam Diaz is a senior editor at ZDNet. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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