March 4th, 2009
News to know: Palm; Google; Apple; Yahoo's Bartz; Hacking Safari
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.
Larry Dignan: Palm: Demand tanks ahead of Pre launch; Pre needs to save the day
Andrew Nusca: Google CEO Schmidt: China ‘obvious prize,’ Twitter ‘poor man’s e-mail system’
- Ed Burnette: Google suffers another outage
Apple refreshes desktop lineup: Is the Mac mini irrelevant?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Of course the Mac mini is relevant!
- David Morgenstern: Who buys a Mac mini?
- Christopher Dawson: $800 Mac Mini? I’m all set, Apple
- John Morris: Details on Apple’s updated iMac, Mac Mini and Mac Pro
- Apple refreshes iMac (up to 3.06GHz), Mac Pro (with Xeon “Nehalem”) and Mac mini (with GeForce 9400M GPU)
- Jason O’Grady: AirPort and Time Capsule go dual-band
- Gallery: Apple iMac, Mac Pro and Mac mini Feb ‘09 refresh
- Sean Portnoy: Apple delivers refreshed networking lineup today, too
- Techmeme
Mary Jo Foley: Which part of Office 14 will be ad-supported? Web apps
Larry Dignan: Yahoo’s Bartz: Search data critical to us; I use Google Maps
Ryan Naraine: Pwn2Own hacker: Apple Safari is ‘easy pickings’
- Opera plugs security holes; adds ASLR, DEP support
- Why full disclosure is an important tool
- Dancho Danchev: Conficker worm to DDoS legitimate sites in March
Robin Harris: Start your company with a credit card and a cloud
- Dion Hinchcliffe: Cloud computing: A new era of IT opportunity and challenges
- Joe McKendrick: Eight ways to get developers on board with SOA governance
- Brian Sommer: No help for HR recruiters in down economy
- Dan Kusnetzky: AppZero’s Virtual Application Appliances cloud computing simplified
- Cloud wars: Microsoft-Google scrum isn’t zero sum
Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 code to freeze end of day March 3, Beta 4 now on tap
TechFlash: Microsoft responds to Grassley, defends its use of H-1B workers
Jason Perlow: VMWare’s filesystem clustering cracked open
Dignan: Netflix could have an open field as rival Blockbuster struggles
- Bloomberg: Blockbuster Said to Hire Firm for Bankruptcy Advice
- Paul Graham: Why TV Lost
- NewTeeVee: Amazon VOD Launches on the Roku
Sun’s Schwartz: I’m not worried about the future (or Sun’s relevance)
Joe Brockmeier: Linux.com goes to Linux Foundation
Matthew Miller: Evernote Mobile Web site optimized for Google Android browser
Sam Diaz: Marketo upgrades, uses salesforce cloud to push smarter sales
Dana Blankenhorn: The coming merger of Netbooks and handhelds
Kingsley-Hughes: NVIDIA and ATI look to redefine high-end mobile graphics
Andrew Nusca: U.S. smartphone market bucks recession; 50% have touchscreens, 70% QWERTY
- Asus launches ultra-thin Eee PC 1008HA Netbook; what Apple Netbook should be
Gallery: Asus unveils dual-screen laptop- In recession, Google execs snare bonuses
- Woman sues for $5K data bill; AT&T says ‘read TOS’
- Asus dual-screen laptop concept revealed
Harry Fuller: Following the money
Gibson ‘Guitar Hero’ suit thrown out
Gallery: Roku Digital Video Player
Dana Blankenhorn: HITrust launches health security effort
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