January 6th, 2009
News to know: Macworld; Windows 7; Snow Leopard; Web 2.0 security; IT strategy
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Ed Bott: Five things Steve Ballmer won’t tell you about Windows 7
Mary Jo Foley: Macs vs. PCs: Is it still a ‘tax’ if users happily pay a premium?
- Larry Dignan: Apple’s Jobs being treated for ‘hormone imbalance’; Will remain at helm
- Philip Schiller’s Macworld keynote detail just got easier
- Techmeme
- Infinite Loop: Macworld.ars: Company may have spilled Mac mini beans
- David Morgenstern: FileMaker 10 looks to be the real deal
- Garett Rogers: Google launches Picasa for the Mac
- CNETNews: Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music, new pricing
Morgenstern: Mac OS X Snow Leopard: What price? Jennifer Leggio: Naivete: Web 2.0’s biggest security threat
Foley: It takes a lot to dismantle an Empire. Microsoft reorg season begins: Muglia gets the presidential nod
CNET News: Microsoft elevates server unit, promotes Muglia
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Seagate crams 329 gigabits of data per square inch
WMP 12 toxic to certain MP3 files
Michael Krigsman: Five strategies for 2009 IT gold
- Brian Sommer: Service firms to struggle in 2009
- HP’s SaaS PPM solution
- Phil Wainewright: Debunking myths about the SaaS partner channel
- TechRepublic: 10 things you can do to ensure career survival in 2009
- Dana Gardner: A technical look at how parallel processing brings vast new capabilities to large-scale BI and data analysis
Paula Rooney: Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source over next 5 years
- Dana Blankenhorn: Benefits of a commercial open source arm
- Should open source boycott Microsoft?
- TechRadar: Stallman: “we still have a fight on our hands”
2009 the year for predictive health start-ups
Times of London: Sony on brink of upheaval as analysts back British chief
Infoworld: IBM employees buzzing about layoff rumors
Sam Diaz: The future of Blu-Ray? Watch porn
Paul Murphy: Storage networks
CNet News: Browser add-on makes Flickr’s galleries faster
Christopher Dawson: Perlow may be a dinosaur, but the kids aren’t
Matthew Miller: CES2009: MSI announces Wind netbooks with SSD/HDD and WiMAX/3.5G
- Soonr and Evernote sync documents to the cloud for iPhone acc
ess - Review: BodyGuardz T-Mobile G1 Google Android skin. Gallery right.
- Nokia was the world’s largest computer maker in 2008
- Quick iPhone app review: craigsphone craigslist application lets you create and view posts
John Morris: Lenovo’s latest laptops and first all-in-one desktop
Heather Clancy: It’s a “guster”: Oil town (Houston) flirts with wind power
Harry Fuller: The 2009 Green Wars Being Fought Now
Jennifer Leggio: FOXNews apparent victim of Twitter phishing attack
- ReadWriteWeb: Updated: Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked
- Mitch Ratcliffe: Twitter authority frenzy led to Twitter phish
ing meltdown - Coming to search results near you: corporate blogs worth reading
- Andrew Mager: Meet Mr. Tweet, your personal Twitter assistant
Zack Whittaker: Outsourcing email, opening communications
Jason Perlow: At $99, Roku rulez with incredible future potential
Look ‘Ma! A Drive-In Theatre for Ants!
Gallery: Texas Instruments Pico DLP Developer Kit (right)
Obsessable: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 HD features highest-density hard drive storage to date
Sam Diaz: Love or hate this post? Sound off for the eavesdroppers
Dan Kusnetzky: The difficulties of being virtual
China gives jail time to Windows counterfeiters
Freescale and ARM promise $200 netbooks
Richard Koman: China cracks down on porn
Linux pioneer moves from Red Hat to Intel
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