January 20th, 2009
News to know: Obama's inauguration streaming; Windows 7; Google; RIM
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.
Andrew Nusca: Where to watch Obama’s presidential inauguration online
- Jennifer Leggio: Inauguration 2009: Can social networks handle it?
- Ustream iPhone app makes App Store in time for inaugural address
- Politico: Obama staff will say cu l8r 2 im
- Richard Koman: Obama to ‘fight back’ for his BlackBerry
- The many impediments to digital White House
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama Presidency
- Wired: The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House?
- Paula Rooney: Some Linux backers upset about selection of Silverlight to stream Obama inauguration events
- CBS News coverage live
Ed Bott: What’s really new in Windows 7?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: IE 8 Release Candidate won’t install on Windows 7
- Win 7 testers find (and fix themselves) troublesome installer bug
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AutoPlay - Fun and social engineering
Brian Sommer: Using Web 2.0 to Extend Your Firm’s Brand
NetSuite & Salesforce.com Integration- Paul Miller: Semantic Web Gang discusses Calais, Linked Data and Google
- Dave Greenfield: Lotus Debuts LotusLive
- Phil Wainewright: Lotus Live: the prequel
NYT: Cisco Plans Big Push Into Server Market
DSL Reports: FCC Doesn’t Like Comcast’s New Treatment of VoIP - Hints that Digital Voice service should be regulated…
Garett Rogers: Google may still be working on GDrive
- TechCrunch: Why Google Employees Quit
Matthew Miller: Review: Waterfield Designs MSI Wind Sleevecase and T-Mobile G1 Ultrasuede Slipcase (right)
- Review: M-Edge Executive Leather Jacket and e-Luminator light for the Amazon Kindle
- RIM now accepting submittals for its BlackBerry application storefront
- Jason Hiner: Palm Pre: Can it trump the iPhone? Will it matter?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Big Brains: Chuck Thacker
BoomTown: The Three Caballeros? -Bostock, Ballmer and…Bewkes?
Kingsley-Hughes: Does your cellphone baffle you?
Zack Whittaker: Windows 7: search your university library from your desktop
- Paul Murphy: When Windows beats Linux: a cautionary tale
- Andrew Nusca: Is this Microsoft Office 14?
Whittaker: Can we rely entirely on Google and Wikipedia?
Photos: Cracking open Apple’s iPod Touch (right)
Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #159, Palm Pre and more focused format
Mary Jo Foley: Here we go again: EC complains about IE integration in Windows Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Would Windows be better without a bundled Internet Explorer?
Larry Dignan: If every day were a Circuit City liquidation sale…
Oliver Marks: Online Diplomacy: the Famous Fedex Twitter/Email Exchange
- Jennifer Leggio: Q&A with a Twitter technologist: ‘Think: we’re a startup’
- Intridea wins: Postman as chief strategist, Present.ly official SXSW microblog platform
Ryan Naraine: Phishing without bait: The in-session password theft attack
- Adam O’Donnell: Researcher generates executable MD5 collisions with Authenticode signed binary
- Vendor claims ZDNet being “exploited” to send spam, forgets definition of exploit
- Dancho Danchev: Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnet
- GoDaddy hit by a DDoS attack
Joe McKendrick: A rational explanation of SOA’s troubles
- Hey, someone forgot to tell these SOA companies that we’re supposed to be miserable
- Dan Kusnetzky: Living in the cloud
MacBlogz: Steve Wozniak Sheds Some Light On Steve Jobs’ Health Issues (Video)
Richard Koman: RIAA protests webcasting of Tenenbaum legal hearing
Jason O’Grady: What’s on my iPhone
Dana Blankenhorn: Vyatta gives Nortel the half-Nelson
Matthew Miller: Use those old Palm OS apps on your Symbian device with StyleTap
Phil Fersht: Are we demonstrating value?
Christopher Dawson: Living in the cloud…How did it go?
Tom Foremski: IT VC funding plunges to lowest level since 1998
Harry Fuller: Will 2009 be a solar year?
- Climate science: now what? Less ice, more hanta virus.
- Heather Clancy: Carbonetworks intros new portal software for emissions info management
- Now that’s what I call a Web host with the most: AISO.net relies on solar to power its network
TechRepublic: 10 reasons to purchase new hardware during a recession
Sean Portnoy: Future TV tech from Hitachi on CES show floor
Foley: Rotten reporting: Is it just Apple coverage that ‘bites’? Dan Lyons’ diatribe about Apple and the “rotten” reporting by the press corps
Kingsley-Hughes: Sapphire debuts fastest Radeon HD 4670
Sean Portnoy: Hands on with Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD media player
- Janice Chen: Panasonic announces budget compact cameras from $120 to $199
- Nusca: Could Palm Pre’s weakness be its battery?
- T-Mobile G1 Android update, improved battery coming
AMD announces layoffs, salary cuts
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