February 13th, 2009
News to know: Stimilus bill, Twitter Twestival, Microsoft stores, Netflix, Facebook value
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: Broadband tax credit cut from stimulus bill
- Sam Diaz: Tech will see direct, indirect benefits from stimulus plan
- Dana Blankenhorn: Stimulus package adds urgency to Obama tech choices
Andrew Nusca: Twitter and the dangers of clickjacking 
- Andrew Mager: Meet and tweet for a good cause at Twestival
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores
Larry Dignan: Netflix adds 600,000 subscribers since Jan 1; Tops 10 million subscriber mark
Sean Portnoy: Bad Gas? Pioneer officially ditches TVs, Vizio abandons plasmas
Larry Dignan: Facebook: We were worth $3.7 billion
Dana Gardner: Who makes most rain from IBM-Amazon cloud deal? Oracle.
Sam Diaz: Apple’s video cloud: A first step toward a new direction?
- Andrew Nusca: Is Apple’s 99-cent app price point sustainable?
Dana Blankenhorn: The open source value of responsibility
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?
Matthew Miller: Exclusive hands-on: Android beats the iPhone to full GPS voice navigation
Mary Jo Foley: Report: July 1 kick-off for Windows 7 free-upgrade program still likely
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 build 7022
Mary jo Foley: Microsoft-hosted e-mail for educational users now named ‘Outlook Live’
- Zack Whittaker: Outlook Live: Microsoft’s efforts towards living in the cloud
Garett Rogers: Google killed the radio… ads
- Sam Diaz: Google: Selling old media sucks
Richard Koman: New pics for Lincoln’s b-day
Matthew Miller: TouchDown Exchange client for Google Android improves calendar functionality
IT Dojo: Answers to five questions about IPv6 [video]
Adam O’Donnell: Microsoft announces industry alliance, $250k reward to combat Conficker
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Snitch on the Conficker worm author, collect $250,000
Larry Dignan: Did YouTube just find some monetization help?
Andrew Nusca: Authors: Kindle 2 text-to-speech undermines audio books
Jason D. O’Grady: 29 screws
Harry Fuller: Shocking discovery harnesses free energy
Jason Perlow: Wowwee’s Top 10 Love-Starved Androids (and yeah, the toys are on sale)
Christopher Dawson: The top 10 things you’d change about your SIS
Richard Koman: EU to extend copyright to 95 years
Larry Dignan: McAfee delivers solid fourth quarter, first quarter outlook
Robin Harris: Why ComCast hates - and fears - the Internet
Dennis Howlett: Dump ERP: a Valentine’s message
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Dell Studio XPS 13 - First look
Jason D. O’Grady: Garmin nuvifone G60 details trickle out
Larry Dignan: Garmin and Asus to show off nuvifones; Will anyone buy them?
Joe McKendrick: SOA and cloud bonding: is this good, or too risky?
Harry Fuller: ethaNO
Dana Gardner: WSO2 announces componentized framework for expansive SOA deployment and integration
Dan Kusnetzky: Riding herd on the cloud with DataSynapse’s Federator
Larry Dignan: Laid off? Don’t leave your personal security with your former employer
Andrew Nusca: Will Wikipedia fail?
Jason D. O’Grady: Spy shot: Next-gen iPhone?
Ryan Naraine: Apple Patch Day: Gaping Mac OS X, Safari holes
Paul Greenberg: A CRM Public Service - A Small (Contemporary) Resource Library
Doug Washburn: Five reasons to consider PC power management
Dana Blankenhorn: Legal shoe drops on vaccine-autism link
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