March 25th, 2009
News to know: VMware; IE 8; Google; 3D Web
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: Facebook responds to redesign concerns; Changes are coming
Mary Jo Foley: VMware picks up yet another former Softie
CIO Sessions: Gerri Martin-Flickinger, CIO, Adobe
Dancho Danchev: Study: IE8’s SmartScreen leads in malware protection
Matthew Miller: iPhone 3.0 Beta 1 walkthrough
- Clash of the Touch Titans; iPhone 3G 3.0 vs. Palm Pre
- Jennifer Bergen: iPhone dominates in mobile Web traffic, Android already on its way up
Sam Diaz: Google’s search upgrades: Good or evil?
- Google: Two new improvements to Google results pages
- Search Engine Land: Google Implements ‘Orion’ Technology, Improves Search Refinements & Adds Longer Snippets
- Andrew Nusca: Twitter improves SEO; may become your top hit on Google
- China reportedly blocks YouTube access
- BusinessWeek: Palm’s Secret Weapon for the Pre
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Economy putting a damper on migrations to and from open source
- Gartner: Businesses don’t need to wait for Windows 7 SP1
- Robin Harris: Inside a Microsoft data center
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Seagate announces BlackArmor network storage solution
Is Dell too late for the smartphone party?
Jennifer Leggio: Burton Group study reveals enterprise social networking priorities
TechTrader Daily: Red Hat Jumps On Rumors Oracle Might Bid
GigaOm: Skype, Now the Largest Long-distance Phone Company
Christopher Dawson: Could Zeebo be the next OLPC?
- How do you convince teachers that Twitter isn’t a waste of time?
- Zack Whittaker: Q’n'A: Keeping the conversati
ons flowing
Jason O’Grady: AP: iPod touch is poor man’s iPhone
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