January 26th, 2009
News to know: Mac at 25; Green storage; Android; Zune a misfit toy?
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Christopher Dawson: The Intel convertible Classmate - 1:1 and beyond
Adam O’Donnell: Will EDoS be the next DDoS?
Brian Sommer: Satyam – Can anything be trusted in Raju’s resignation letter?
ZDNet UK: Happy birthday, Apple Macintosh
- The Macintosh at 50
- Sam Diaz: The Mac turns 25. Let’s look ahead another 25.
- Gallery: Photos: Mac through the years (right)
- David Morgenstern: The Mac at 25: GUI battles in business
- Remembering the ‘1984′ Super Bowl Mac ad
- Jason O’Grady: The Macintosh turns 25 (and how it was almost a Bicycle)
- Gallery: 25 years of Macs (right)
- CNET News: Recalling Apple’s ‘1984′ Super Bowl commercial
- Video: Steve Jobs’ first demo
Heather Clancy: Trade group releases initial green storage measurement guidelines
NYT: $200 Laptops Break a Business Model
Matthew Miller: Android Cupcake update may be missing major need, memory management
- Easily get more info and take quick action with Microsoft Tags
- MobileTechRoundup show #160, thoughts on the CrunchPad
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Should Microsoft kick the Zune to the Island of the Misfit Toys?
Robin Harris: Windows kicks Linux to the curb
TechCrunch: Twitter Raising New Cash At $250 Million Valuation
Mary Jo Foley: Sources: Microsoft to close completely its Aces game studio
Financial Times: Cash-rich US techs guard purse strings
NYT: Cellphones as Credit Cards? Americans Must Wait
Sean Portnoy: Datto launches Box 2 Box P2P NAS device
Phil Wainewright: Xactly buys rival Centive
Jason Perlow: Fun at Kennedy Space Center
BoomTown: Carol Bartz’s First-Week-at-Yahoo Memo to the Troops
Oliver Marks: Lonely, Scared & Bitter
Zack Whittaker: Students: how to pitch a killer product
Garrett Rogers: Google to launch next big update to Google Earth
Joe Brockmeier: Even hackers get the blues
Sam Diaz: Verizon’s Hub: Another way to fight iPhone churn?
Silicon Alley Insider: What A Nigerian Facebook Scam Looks Like
Paul Murphy: From Windows to Unix: a mental journey
Larry Dignan: VeriSign buys Certicom to trump RIM
Dennis Howlett: The great certification debate
Oliver Marks: An Obama Administration and Sony Comparison
- Will Obama have a laptop? (Answer: No. Here’s why.)
- Dana Blankenhorn : House IT stimulus bill lacks answer to key question
- McNealy’s back and Obama’s got him
- Richard Koman: $3b approved for rural broadband
- Why the Obama Blackberry battle mattered
- Christopher Dawson: Letters to the President
- Richard Koman: RIAA, BSA lawyers fill top Justice spots
CNBC: Apple nano Owners Gettin’ A Little Extra ‘Scratch’
Nusca: $22.5 million cash settlement for Apple iPod nano owners
- Global Internet population surpasses 1 billion
- AT&T to drop unlimited data, messaging to $30
- Facebook now twice as big as MySpace
- Seattle tops ‘America’s most wired cities’ list
Ultimate Ears MetroFi earphones–photos Sam Diaz: Intel’s Barrett to retire in May
- Paula Rooney: Citrix, Intel developing open source Xen desktop hypervisor
- Dan Kusnetzky: Citrix wants to define the next generation desktop
Security market soars after Mumbai attacks
Engadget Mobile: AT&T dropping unlimited data and messaging to $30
Joe McKendrick: More bus-bashing: ESBs are ’standards-based,’ but not ’standardized’
ReadWriteWeb: Why Twitter’s New Security Solution Could Pave the Way to a Future Web of Mashups
Heather Clancy: Before you can get a grip, you have to get a grip. IBM aims to help.
Tom Foremski: There’s a green lining in economic clouds
Dana Blankenhorn: Where will Java coders go now?
Samsung paints an ugly tech picture
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