March 2nd, 2009
News to know: Amazon; Windows 7 beta; Ozzie; Facebook
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 Bott: Five things every Windows beta tester should know
- Zack Whittaker: Students and the Windows 7 release candidate
Larry Dignan: Kindlenomics: Keep publishers and authors happy (cave once in a while)
- Amazon: Statement from Amazon.com Regarding Kindle 2’s Experimental Text-to-Speech Feature
- Lessig Blog: Caving into bullies (aka, here we go again)
- CNET News: Amazon misread book sector on speech feature
- Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #163, Kindle 2, Android, and awesome freeware
Phil Fersht: Is the call center finally coming onshore?
Jason Perlow: Will somebody make a decent low-cost, Android-based Media Player please?
Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week
Mary Jo Foley: Red Dog: Ray Ozzie casts a long shadow
- New release of Microsoft’s App-V for Windows 7 available
- Long Zheng: Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video)
Garett Rogers: Hack Google’s Native Client and get $8,192
Ryan Naraine: URL rewriting can help thwart Web app attacks
Andrew Nusca: Microsoft: Vision to ‘fundamentally re-imagine productivity’
- So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know
- AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovation
- Obsessed TV showcases the personalities of entrepreneurs
Images: Microsoft’s workplace of the future
Joe Brockmeier: The little Linux desktop that could: Xfce 4.6 released
- Blankenhorn: Bang the TomTom slowly
- Paula Rooney: Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernel
Phil Wainewright: Appirio, shafting the global SIs
Brian Sommer: More on the disintegration of BearingPoint
Dana Blankenhorn: Does Microsoft still need Novell?
- Novell chief: ‘Our Linux performance did not meet our expectations’
- What can government do for open source
Jason Perlow: Microsoft: Bring back the H/PC Pro
Obama’s budget blueprint bolsters cybersecurity
Ed Burnette: Market Moves: You pick the next step
Janice Chen: 15 online photo apps compared: image editing on the cheap
Blankenhorn: Who will control the coming health IT standards?
James Farrar: Green is still Gold (But Beware of the Politics of Gesture)
- Paul Murphy: Comparison in green
- Harry Fuller: California becomes official dry state
- San Francisco turns from foggy gray to bright green
- America’s lag-time in alternative energy
- Heather Clancy: Are the terms green and gadget mutually exclusive?
Oliver Marks: Sacked for mentioning job was boring on Facebook…
Analyst: OLPC won’t draw global PC makers
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