March 18th, 2009

News to know: iPhone; Google; SAP; Oracle; IBM-Sun

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:01 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones

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.

Sam Diaz: WSJ: IBM in talks to buy Sun

Privacy group to FTC: Google’s cloud is unsafe

Larry Dignan: Apple iPhone 3.0 beta preview: The big takeaways

• Sam Diaz: Apple’s iPhone 3.0 event - beyond the live blog
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iPhone OS 3.0 - What’s new …
• Matthew Miller: Are iPhone 3.0 improvements enough to get you to buy an iPhone? They are for me
• Jason O’Grady: Wrapping up Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 event (Updated 6x)
• Ed Burnette: Apple announces copy and paste, MMS, Spotlight, more for iPhone
• Live coverage of Apple’s iPhone 3.0 preview event
• Gallery: Apple’s iPhone 3.0 event
• David Morgenstern: The big (and ignored) bit in Apple’s iPhone 3.0 announcements
• Techmeme roundup
• iPhone 3.0 video: Copy, Paste; P2P; MMS

Dancho Danchev: Comcast responds to passwords leak on Scribd

Google: Google Chrome has a new beta  Diaz: Google Chrome: Still value in a “beta”

Zack Whittaker: Is Google slowly alienating the Microsoft cloud market?

Michael Krigsman: IDC Directions09: Analyst perspectives on IT failure

• Joe McKendrick: Extend SOA governance to all of IT? Why not?
• Brian Sommer: Need some high-powered help?

 

Jennifer Leggio: Spotlight on Austin: Click Forensics’ Steve O’Brien

• Andrew Mager: Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson keynote in tweets
• Video: Is Aristotle on Twitter?

Survival of the smartest – How to thrive In a slumping economy

Webware Radar: Alltop launches personal pages

John Morris: Behind Dell’s designs for its Adamo laptop

• Andrew Nusca: Dell Adamo: A laptop for the discerning gentleman
• Christopher Dawson: Apparently Dell forgot it was a recession
• Dignan: Dell’s Adamo: Very fashionable, but will the fashion-impaired base (like me) buy it?
• Gallery: Hands-on with the Dell Adamo

Dana Blankenhorn: Is Microsoft Amalga in trouble?

• What is behind the Kaiser-IBM deal?
• The big question really facing newspapers
• Could Cloudera become the open source Asia?