February 12th, 2009
News to know: Pwn2Own; Windows advice; Palm; JavaFX
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
Ed Burnette: Java gets a mobile makeover with JavaFX Mobile
Ryan Naraine: Pwn2Own hacker contest targets browsers, smart phones
- Dancho Danchev: Massive comment spam attack on Digg.com leads to malware
- Inside Microsoft’s February patch batch
Jason Perlow: Google: Go tell Apple to shove it.
- Former Softies aim to make Office work like Google Docs
- Microsoft Big Brains: Patrick Dussud
- Moonlight 1.0 is ready for download
- Tax Refund Special: Laptops and desktops
- Tax Refund Special: Smartphones
- Tax Refund Special: Hardware 2.0 top picks
- Tax Refund Special: Mobile gear
- Tax Refund Special: Upgrading to a dSLR
- Tax Refund Special: Home theater
Larry Dignan: Google becoming all about location, location, location
Dennis Howlett: SaaS frustration
- Phil Wainewright: Sage shows why bigcos can’t be trusted with SaaS
- Zack Whittaker: Living in the cloud
Heather Clancy: Dell amps up its tech recycling programs, consumer give-back options
- Harry Fuller: More help from bacteria: this time they’re stopping nitrate pollution
- Solar Day. Whose bright idea?
Matthew Miller: Quickoffice to demo Office apps for iPhone and Google Android at MWC 2009
- Curious about ebooks? Check out the best article ever on ebooks
- T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900 now available for $199.99
- Mozilla Fennec browser released in pre-alpha form for Windows Mobile
Jason O’Grady: App Store surpasses 20,000 apps
Chris Jablonski: Podcars inch from myth to reality
Photos: Inside the Palo Alto Research Center
Fixing cable in the Outback - floods, Hercules and crocs
No word on made-in-Asia 32nm Intel chips
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Should Mozilla stay out of the whole IE/EU antitrust mess?
HP bundles XenDesktop with two blade PCs
Michael Krigsman: IT failures roundup: software bugs everywhere
BetaNews: Adobe: Microsoft’s Silverlight ‘has really fizzled’
Andrew Nusca: Obama: I’m a PC
NYT: Why Spend $350 Million to Map Broadband?
Dana Blankenhorn: Nursing at center of medical home concept
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