February 9th, 2009
News to know: Windows 7; Tax software guide; Extending your system's life
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
Robin Harris: Give your system a mid-life kicker
Ed Bott: How well does Windows 7 handle 512MB?
Andrew Nusca: ZDNet’s Ultimate Tax Software Guide for 2008
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft vs. Open Source competitors … where’s that headed?
Adam O’Donnell: Social networks have taught us cryptography (probably) won’t stop spam
ZDNet AU: Qantas: Satyam still ‘manageable’
John Morris: First reviews of Nvidia’s netbook solution
- Kingsley-Hughes: Dell Mini 9 - $249 - Time limited offer
- Apple to go back to user-replaceable batteries?
- Andrew Nusca: Intel shipping Atom N280 Netbook processor
Photos: Midrange 3D card round-up- Phil Wainewright: What have we done?
- Joe McKendrick: SOA design patterns, explored in detail
- Automatic SOA: embedding service orientation into ‘muscle memory’
- Paul Greenberg: SugarCon09: Times - Bad, SugarCRM - Good; Customer Retention - Good
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Southwest Airlines’ Next Competitor? Cisco Systems.
Jason O’Grady: Pandora revs iPhone app to version 2
Mary Jo Foley: A Microsoft smartphone: No. A Microsoft phone chassis: Yes
Matthew Miller: A video walk around the T-Mobile G1 RC33 update
- MobileRead posts exclusive images of Amazon’s next Kindle
- DataViz to announce Office for iPhone and Android, Exchange for Android at MWC
- Update: Microsoft Skybox service appears as My Phone beta, Microsoft issues statement
- Sam Diaz: Blackberry promo could help RIM, Verizon in smartphone war.
Sean Portnoy: Iomega adds four-bay StorCenter Pro ix4-100 to its NAS
The Register: Kaspersky breach exposes sensitive database, says hacker
Intel delays next Itanium server chip again
Tom Foremski: Cockroach media will survive this recession
Computerworld: Ballmer: Stay on Windows XP and you will face a backlash
Chris Jablonski: How to ‘grow’ your own indoor fresh air
Zack Whittaker: Researchers use Half Life to simulate fire evacuations. 
Gallery (right)
Phil Fersht: Forget 2006, let’s go back to ‘96
Garett Rogers: Gmail usage appears to be closing in on Hotmail
Dana Blankenhorn: The mySQL boys leaving Sun need not be a big deal
Oliver Marks: $9 million ATM heist: the dark side of international collaboration
Jennifer Leggio: iStreamPlanet helps bring Grammy watchers more behind-the-scenes entertainment
Crave: OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design
Portnoy: Rumor: Pioneer is getting out of TV business
Paul Murphy: Rednecks, old computers, and TCO
iPhone earrings replace snap bracelets as world’s tackiest fashion accessory (right)
Harry Fuller: Good news: Washington D.C. may be doomed to inundation
- “Science:” a fighting word in 2009
- EPA: that was then, this is now
- Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levels
- Burning issue leads to innovation
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