January 16th, 2009
News to know: plane crash; Windows 7; Bartz's salary; Intel
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.
Zack Whittaker: New York plane crash: online media spreads word within seconds
- Andrew Nusca: New York CTO to statewide wireless network: Drop dead
Jeremy Allison: Windows 7: A sound of thunder
Sam Diaz: Yahoo’s Bartz to earn $1M plus bonuses, options
Larry Dignan: Intel: The industry is ‘resetting;’ Quarter weak; Inventory swells
Mary Jo Foley: Do dismal fourth-quarter PC sales mean Microsoft layoffs more likely?
Sam Diaz: Jobs’ medical leave: right to privacy vs right to know
- Jason D. O’Grady: More on Jobs’ medical leave of absence
- Tom Stienert-Threlkeld: The Success(or) of Steve Jobs
- Richard Koman: Off-topic: Jobs takes six-month health break
- Christopher Dawson: Could Jobs’ departure = good news for education?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple: Is the glass half full or half empty?
Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com rolls out ‘Service Cloud,’ eyes social networking connections
Jason D. O’Grady: iPhone first responder at US Airways crash into Hudson River
Heather Clancy: Means to an end: New HP management tools address green IT challenges
Harry Fuller: Luddites, science and global warming
Sean Portnoy: CES 2009: Asus Eee Keyboard could be a HTPC in the shape of a, um, keyboard
Larry Dignan: Google grows up; Restructuring tweaks signal end of adolescence
CNET: Autodesk to cut 750 jobs, lowers earnings outlook
Sam Diaz: Yesssss! Grand Central survives Google’s cuts
Dancho Danchev: 3.5m hosts affected by the Conficker worm globally
Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 now due Feb 2
Andrew Nusca: Online finance site notifies users of fraudulent charges
John Morris: First Sony VAIO P Series reviews: On second thought. . .
Christopher Dawson: More details on the Classmate PC “ecosystem”
Richard Koman: Judge OKs Internet in P2P hearing
Mary Jo Foley: Want to run legacy Windows apps on Vista? Try the MED-V beta
Jennifer Leggio: Facebook as a country: a visual
Harry Fuller: Economic problems forestalling alternative energy growth?
Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile G2 video reveals graffiti text, stylus in Android
Larry Dignan: Should Dell buy Palm?
Andrew Nusca: Best Buy to be Palm Pre exclusive retailer
Richard Koman: Obama likely to name outsider to head NASA
Paul Greenberg: Salesforce.com Powers Obama’s Change.gov Citizen’s Briefing Book
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft honing its ‘better together’ story for Windows 7 and Office 14
Matthew Miller: Google drops Jaiku, can Nokia please pick it up and run with it?
Dana Blankenhorn: Why is Microsoft slowing the health IT train?
Jason D. O’Grady: Lyons: CNBC “played and punked” by Apple spin machine
Dana Blankenhorn: Another big win for checklists
Joe McKendrick: Eighty-five paths to SOA success
Jason D. O’Grady: Dissecting Apple’s new eight hour battery
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source lessons in the Nortel bankruptcy
Jason D. O’Grady: Wired removes Hackintosh video after Apple legal threat
Dana Blankenhorn: IBM, Microsoft and the great role reversal
Larry Dignan: Nuance lands IBM partnership; $175 million capital infusion
Dan Kusnetzky: When is virtual machine technology the wrong choice?
Sam Diaz is a senior editor at ZDNet. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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