January 15th, 2009
News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage.
Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Steve Jobs takes “medical leave of absence”
- Techmeme
Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 on older hardware: A Catch 22 for Microsoft
Ryan Naraine: RIM warns of BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities
- Dancho Danchev: Malware author greets Microsoft’s Windows Defender team
- Paris Hilton’s official web site serving malware
- Andrew Nusca: Q: ‘Why did you write adware?’ A: ‘I was broke’
- How to keep your data secure
- TechRepublic: 10 things you should do to secure Apache
- Social networking risk: Managing the inevitable
Photos: From London to Timbuktu–in a flying car (right)
Dignan: Nortel bankruptcy: What you need to know
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: R.I.P., ‘V.O.I.P.’ Long live packet-based telephony.
- Sam Diaz: More layoffs: Seagate cuts 6 percent; Oracle cuts hundreds, not thousands
- Motorola’s mobile unit gets slammed in another round of cuts, layoffs
- Global IT purchases to decline in 2009; BRIC and ‘tech 12′ analyzed
- Google lays off recruiters
- Demand for key IT skills remains high
Paul Greenberg: CRM 2.0: The Government, Public Service & A Transformed World
Sam Diaz: Psystar offers another (weak) argument in Apple suit
TechCrunch: Why Do We Still Let Webmail Services Get Away With Deleting Our Data?
Joe McKendrick: So far, SOA failures are far and few between, survey says
MacRumors: Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying ‘Marble’ User Interface?
BoomTown: Sue Decker’s Goodbye Memo to the Yahoo Troops
Brian Sommer: Ethics and Indian services firms
- Phil Fersht: Beware of Satyam ambulance-chasers
Heather Clancy: Dell supersizes its LED monitors
- Green-battery maker Boston-Power snags $55 million in funding
- Photos: Classic electric concept cars from Detroit (right)
Jennifer Leggio: Twitter, I’m cheating on you with Facebook
Phil Wainewright: Google endorses the cloud channel
Dana Blankenhorn: 7 reasons why Windows 7 will not wreck Ubuntu
Joe Brockmeier: What happens with KDE with Qt license shift?
TechCrunch: Gmail Grew 43 Percent Last Year. AOL Mail And Hotmail Need To Start Worrying.
Richard Koman: Will govt throw bucks at health IT without understanding the goals?
- Amazon wants to put govt. in the cloud
- IBM is tops in patents
- Nusca: IBM is U.S. patent king in 2008; first to 4,000 patents
Matthew Miller: Another Eye-Fi product wins CES 2009 Last Gadget Standing contest
- Early Palm Pre and iPhone comparisons give advantage to the Pre
- Sorry, you won’t see Opera, Firefox, or Chrome soon on your iPhone
- Slacker Radio joins a growing list of iPhone streaming music apps
- Gallery: Five new Wi-Fi radios from Grace Digital Audio — photos (right)
Andrew Mager: David Allen explains how to Make It All Work
Robin Harris: Apple’s 8 hour battery: breakthrough or bungle?
Andrew Nusca: Apple ’suing’ Wired for tutorial on ‘Hackintosh’ netbook tutorial, author says
- Would you buy a Dell smartphone?
- Toshiba, Fujitsu in talks to combine HDD business
- U.K. ISP bans Internet Wayback Machine
Sean Portnoy: CES 2009: Photos of TV widgets from the show floorOliver Marks: The Linked Content Economy: Thomson Reuters Open Calais Toolkit to Create More Intelligent Applications
NY Observer: It’s Geek to You, but Not to Them: Meet the Early Adopters
Mercury News: Casino profile details luxurious lifestyle of former Fry’s executive
Dana Blankenhorn: Getting right by open source
Gallery: Pandora 2.0 Internet radio App
Christopher Dawson: Really, you’re going to buy it for me?
Engine Yard takes Ruby and Rails to Amazon’s cloud bandwagon
Ryan Stewart: No more free Sprout Builder
Gartner CIO advice: The good, the bad and the plain odd
Patent wars: EchoStar cheers reexamination of Tivo patent; Tivo scoffs
eWeek: United Airlines to Offer In-Flight Wi-Fi
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