March 13th, 2009
News to know: AOL's new CEO; Windows 7; Cloud computing
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: Is Windows 7 reliable enough to release now?
Brian Sommer: A U.S. Version of the Satyam Scandal? Washington D.C. IT Fraud?
Larry Dignan: AOL names Google’s Tim Armstrong CEO
- Time Warner: Tim Armstrong Named Chairman and CEO of AOL
- PaidContent.org: Interview: Tim Armstrong, Chairman And CEO, AOL: ‘Job #1 Is To Focus On The Core Business’
Mary Jo Foley: Will Microsoft port Windows to an Arm-based OLPC laptop?
Andrew Nusca: Palm Pre to arrive…we don’t know. Still. (updated with plans)
Jason O’Grady: My list of iPhone grievances
- Apple holding iPhone 3.0 special event next week; what do you want from new software?
- It’s official: iPhone OS 3 coming 17 March (updated 3x)
Sam Diaz: Pondering cloud computing at the SaaS Summit
Dirty little secrets of the keyboard revealed
Gallery: 9 best one-trick applications for Windows (right)
AMR: Microsoft Convergence 2009: Hybrid Technology
Larry Dignan: Amazon tweaks EC2 pricing; Takes next step in its enterprise evolution
Dennis Howlett: RightNow puts its money where its mouth is
Heather Clancy: Oracle report offers cautionary tale for utilities: Don’t even think about charging for energy consumption reports
CNET News: Fusion-io touts ‘fastest’ solid-state drive
Jennifer Leggio: Spotlight on Austin: Dachis Corporation’s Peter Kim
- Social media and charity: philanthropy or crass opportunism?
- Christopher Dawson: Would you replace your email system with a social network?
- Technology Live: Hulu launches social networking
- Tom Foremski: Human botnets and Twitnets - the problem with commercial social media
- Christopher Dawson: Letting Twitter change the way we teach
Gallery: 2009 Onkyo AV receivers photos- Dana Gardner: BriefingsDirect analysts discuss solutions for bringing human interactions into business process workflows
- Michael Krigsman: How to pitch a CIO successfully
- The 10 biggest mistakes IT managers make
- Dan Kusnetzky: Cisco vs the world and unasked for advice to Dell
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