December 19th, 2008
News to know: Oracle, RIM; Windows 7; openSUSE
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Jason Perlow: Tough Love with openSUSE 11.1. 
Gallery right.
Ed Bott: That Windows 7 bootleg is a ticking time bomb
- Mary Jo Foley: Some testers expecting an early Windows 7 Beta 1 present
- Paul Murphy: From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The Windows 7 FUD kicks off
Bits: Dell’s Mystery ‘Adamo’ Could Be Thinner Than Air
Janice Chen: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best digital camera accessories
Andrew Nusca: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Last-minute stocking stuffers
Tech earnings:
- Larry Dignan: Oracle puts Salesforce.com in its sights
- Oracle’s second quarter in line; Ellison takes aim at Salesforce.com
- Palm CEO: It’s not too late for us; Is it a dead company walking?
- Sam Diaz: RIM reports Q3; says Q4 is off to a strong start
- Silicon Alley Insider: BlackBerry Storm Selling Well, As Expected (RIMM)
- Reuters: Accenture results top Wall St view, outlook lower
Oliver Marks: Make the US Small Business Administration Super Venture Capitalists!
Joe McKendrick: Can we really, really, trust the cloud?
Brian Sommer: Product update - Compuware’s Changepoint 2009
WSJ: Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits
Heather Clancy: Multi-sourced research: IT managers still bullish on green tech spending
CNET News: Universal Music seeing ‘tens of millions’ from YouTube
Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint
Christopher Dawson: Balancing utility with responsibility on student laptops
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: SecuROM DRM sucks
Images: 
Christmas screensavers (right)
Roland Piquepaille: The Army’s brain lives in Seattle
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile drops $18 upgrade fee, will other carriers follow suit?
Dan Kusnetzky: What to do when a business hotel doesn’t have a WiFi network?
- Wi-Fi growing rapidly in U.S., U.K.; 42% of iPhone requests use Wi-Fi
- Oriel Specialist Mathematics and Computing College - a SoftXpand user profile
Garett Rogers: Microsoft and Yahoo wait for Google to increase privacy
Harry Fuller: Can U.S. close the battery gap?
Deep packet inspection takes another hit as Phorm execs leave
Jason O’Grady: Shill Filler: How Apple killed Macworld Expo
Huawei denies ‘ludicrous’ espionage claims
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