January 27th, 2009
News to know: IE 8; TI; VMware; Cloud computing
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
Christopher Dawson: Convertible Classmate, take 2
Jason Perlow: Linux dead at hands of Windows 7? Horse puckey!
Tech earnings:
- Larry Dignan: VMware’s fourth quarter solid; Better than expected
- Tech layoff parade continues: TI cuts 12 percent of workforce
- Sam Diaz: Netflix bucks trends, beats for Q4
Mary Jo Foley: Near-final IE 8 test build ready for download
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft worried about EU pressure to bundle alternatives to IE
- EU may force rival browsers on Windows
Foley: Win 7 beta: February 10 is the download cut-off date
PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft datacenters feel the pinch
- Forrester: Knowing isn’t hot but it should be
Adam O’Donnell: Mac malware will become endemic amongst high-risk groups
Websense: Barack Obama’s Site Leading to Trojan
Sam Diaz: Senate OKs unnecessary delay to digital TV switch
Zach Whittaker: Windows Mobile: it drove me to insanity
- Matthew Miller: Windows Mobile; an operating system for adults
Bloomberg: U.S. Defense Department Mimics Google, Microsoft in Cloud Computing Effort
Larry Dignan: Enterprise search: The target is moving
Symantec dabbles with cloud app aggregation; Launches beta of GoEverywhere. 
Gallery: Symantec’s GoEverywhere (right)
Google Operating System: More Signs of a Google Webdrive
Christopher Dawson: Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students
Dana Blankenhorn: Can open source police the clouds?
Oliver Marks: Editing Crowd Sourced Content: the Wikipedia Discussion
- Zack Whittaker: A Google Knol is worth a thousand Wikipedia’s
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Oh, CRAP. We’re Now Named TARP. Maybe It’s Time To Change. Again.
- Marks: White House email hosed…
Times of London: Speculation grows over eBay plan to sell Skype internet telephone division
Richard Koman: Tech stimulus: $20b for health care records
Heather Clancy: Sun squeezes out cost, space and heat with new Colorado data center
Andrew Nusca: Monster.com hacked; user ID, e-mail, phone numbers stolen
- Are buggy smartphones acceptable at launch?
- Mac Trojan horse found in pirated Adobe Photoshop CS4. Intego: New Variant of Mac Trojan Horse iServices Found in Pirated Adobe Photoshop CS4
Joe McKendrick: In defense of SOA standards bodies
- Dana Gardner: BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Service Oriented Communications, debate how dead SOA really is
- Dennis Howlett: Guarantees and crazy glue sniffers
- Paul Greenberg: Announcing CRM Playaz!
- Michael Krigsman: Why I love Windows 7, hate Linux, and think the Mac is lame
TechTrader Daily: Should Yahoo Buy The New York Times?
Kingsley-Hughes: Alienware M17 - Is this the ultimate gaming notebook?
- John Morris: MIDs haven’t made it, but Intel is undaunted
WebWorkerDaily: Will the Last One to Leave GrandCentral Please Turn Out the Lights?
Harry Fuller: Forget red or blue, is Washington turning green?
Matthew Miller: First, and maybe last, impressions of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1a
Image Gallery: First thoughts on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1a
Dana Blankenhorn: Another way to avoid mistakes in surgery
Sam Diaz: Shop around before you buy Apple’s iLife ‘09
Jason O’Grady: iLife ‘09 shipping tomorrow
- Thoughts on the G1 keyboard
- Quanta to release ultra-thin (1-2 cm) notebook
- Nusca: Chip obstacles, Snow Leopard holding up next-gen iMac
Harry Fuller: New auto emission regs could block some car sales
AMD launches more energy efficient server chips
BoomTown: Should Facebook-or Someone Else-Take Another Run at Twitter?
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