January 12th, 2009
News to know: Windows 7; Oracle patches; CES wrap; Satyam saga
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft reboots borked Windows 7 Beta
- The Windows Blog: Here’s where we stand
- Joe Brockmeier: Windows 7 as “Linux killer”? How times have changed!
- Ed Bott: Windows 7 in 2010? Ha! Try July 2009
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How-to: Getting started with .VHD files in Windows 7
- First look - Windows 7 beta 1 Home Premium + Windows Anytime Upgrade
- How-to: Burn your Windows 7 .ISO to DVD disc
- Zack Whittaker: Windows 7: “Device Stage” and hardware productivity
- Gallery: Windows 7: handling hardware and ‘Device Stage’
- Windows 7 - What we still don’t know …
- Ballmer takes on Google, the economy and Windows 7
Ryan Naraine: Oracle planning Patch Tuesday whopper
Adam O’Donnell: Phishers as street-level drug dealers
Brian Sommer: Will the Satyam incident spur real change?
Larry Dignan: Rest in peace Roland Piquepaille
Times of London: Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches
- Garett Rogers: Googling will wreck the environment!
- Techmeme
CNET News: Intel to bring out chip for lower-cost thin laptops
Christopher Dawson: “It’s too small, it’s too slow, and the keyboard’s dumb”…Or is it?
Andrew Nusca: Focusing attention is the new work ethic
- Study: Tetris wipes out bad memories, heals trauma
- CES 2009: Storage vendors should embrace the cloud, Iomega rep says [day 4]
- CES 2009: Hands-on with Lenovo’s dual-screen W700ds
- CES 2009: Recession could be good to us, AMD says [day 4]
- CES 2009: SSD-only business notebooks the ‘new wave’ of 2009 [day 4]
- CES 2009: pureSilicon debuts ‘world’s slimmest’ 1TB SSD
- CES 2009: No ‘touchy feely’ in Palm VIP lounge [day 4]
- Sean Portnoy: CES 2009: I demo Panasonic’s 3D Full HD Plasma Home Theater System
- CES 2009: Vizio previews Connected HDTV platform, $2,000 LED TV, first Blu-ray player
- CES 2009: Hands-on with Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system
- CES 2009: Toshiba’s Cell TV prototype can record six HD streams at once
- John Morris: Adamo is a near no-show, but Dell ships Studio XPS laptops
- Toshiba’s ‘wall-leaning’ LCD TV concept [day 3]
- The world’s highest ultra-high definition LED TV [day 3]
- Fujitsu’s water-cooled notebook tech [day 3]
- Best of CES winners from CES 2009 — Photos
NYT: A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows
Jason O’Grady: MWSF09 Best in Show: TechRestore matte finish MacBook screen
- MWSF09 Best in Show: FastMac iV
- MWSF09 Best in Show: GelaSkins
- MW exhibitors: traffic down about 20%
- iPhotos ‘09: Wither Aperture?
Newsweek: The Search For The Next Steve Jobs
Dana Gardner: Predicting vitality of ‘SOA’ completely misses the point — legacy IT is dead
- Joe McKendrick: Manes: let’s get more ‘concrete’ about service orienting
- Paul Murphy: The IT theme for 2009: simplify
- Phil Wainewright: Panel: SOA is Alive and Kicking
- Michael Krigsman: IT failures town hall recording [podcast]
- Paul Murphy: Selling Unix in 2009 - much easier than in 2008?
All Facebook: Facebook Prepares To Launch FriendFeed “Like” FeatureZack Whittaker: Podcast: Can Silverlight be the Flash killer?
Matthew Miller: Palm WebOS is all about the Mojo
- Dana Blankenhorn: Is Palm webOS too little and too late?
- Foley: Microsoft to wait until February for Win Mobile show-and-tell
- Palm gets in game but doesn’t change it; Reality lurks
Paula Rooney: Firefox team stops collecting data to ensure user privacy
Dennis Howlett: Layoffs at Gartner and AMR
Sam Diaz: Satyam scandal: Arrests and new board members
Christopher Dawson: New Classmate PC all about “ecosystem”
Andrew Mager: The Crunchies 2009. Gallery (right)
Ryan Naraine: Google adds HTTPS-only browsing to Chrome
- Garett Rogers: Google has a new look, do you like it?
- Matthew Miller: Exchange support provided on the Google Android G1 via TouchDown
- Google Chrome 2.0 pre-beta surfaces
Heather Clancy: Solar advocacy group strikes deal for special pricing, financing
Times of India: Mumbai police to look out for unsecured Wi-Fi connectionsRichard Koman: Still waiting for tech to transform 3rd world
- Lessig, Colbert in Copyright Smackdown
- British ISPs must log all emails for 12 months
- 7 parting thoughts from FCC chair Martin
Sam Diaz: Apple at CES? Don’t believe it.
Dana Blankenhorn: HIMSS going open source?
Amazon EC2 launches Web-based management console
Circuit City in talks for sale; Best Buy narrows its fiscal 2009 targets
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