March 26th, 2009
News to know: IBM layoffs, Google, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Dell
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: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to India
- Larry Dignan: Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees vent
Matthew Miller: Google Mobile App with voice search now available for BlackBerry
Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile debuts mobile broadband with USB device
Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft is as troubled as the rest of us
CNET: ‘New Dell’ makes big server push
- Sam Diaz: Dell ups its data center game
Larry Dignan: Blockbuster inks deal with TiVo
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft identity-management product running a year late
Dennis Howlett: Squaring the SAP certification and maintenance circle
Jason D. O’Grady: Apple addresses MBP17 vertical lines with firmware update
Sean Portnoy: Seagate matches Western Digital with 8TB BlackArmor NAS devices
Andrew Nusca: Poll: What do you want to see on The Toybox?
Ryan Naraine: Cisco IOS patch day covers multiple vulnerabilities
Chris Jablonski: Nanorobot for Brain Aneurysm
Richard Koman: Outrage in aftermath of China’s YouTube censorship
Dana Gardner: Eclipse Swordfish OSGi ESB enters fray for SOA market acceptance, Sopera to add support
Harry Fuller: The new ocean czarina takes over
Jason D. O’Grady: The next App Store threat: counterfeit apps
Sam Diaz: AT&T is first ISP to bully music pirates for RIAA
Andrew Nusca: Nokia invests $70m in Obopay mobile service provider
Sam Diaz: A Twitter conference: not as silly as it sounds
Andrew Mager: Track the Twitterazzi with Famery
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: There Is No Such Thing As a $99 Netbook. Not From Apple. Or Anyone.
Jason D. O’Grady: Charlie Miller: Macs lacking in security
Andrew Nusca: Are you still interested in Palm Pre?
Oliver Marks: Where Worlds Collide - and then there’s Sharepoint
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft adds ‘Skywing’ to Windows defense team
Christopher Dawson: Childtopia adds functionality to Classmates (and more)
Dana Gardner: SaaS provider Workday extends HR business processes to iPhone, mobile tier
Harry Fuller: Environmental drug abuse
Jennifer Bergen: Google Mobile App for BlackBerry introduces Search by voice and My Location
Jason D. O’Grady: China Unicom getting iPhone in May
Jennifer Leggio: Fortune 500 series: Texas Instruments uses social media to connect 10K+ engineers
Dana Blankenhorn: Should health IT be immune from suits
Mary Jo Foley: April deadlines loom for Windows XP, Office 2003 product support
Dana Blankenhorn: Insurance industry renews offer to end underwriting
Joe McKendrick: Is having SOA and Master Data Management at the same time a form of overkill?
Ryan Naraine: Foxit PDF Reader being exploited in the wild
Andrew Nusca: How Nokia Ovi Store will trump Apple on global stage
Zack Whittaker: UK government to collect Facebook data?
Dennis Howlett: Where to for revenue recognition?
Christopher Dawson: Another Classmate expedition
Dana Blankenhorn: It’s a Flat World after all
Jennifer Bergen: Canon EOS Rebel T1i unveiled
Andrew Nusca: Samsung to launch Papyrus e-reader
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Sony Bravia LCD HDTV, Logitech Harmony Advanced Universal Remote, Lenovo IdeaPad laptop
Andrew Nusca: Wacom introduces Intuos4 pen tablet; adds sensitivity, OLED
ZDNet UK: IBM and Wyse lead thin-client revival
Andrew Nusca: ‘Psyb0t’ worm infects Linksys, Netgear home routers, modems
Paul Miller: Jeff Pollock discusses his new book, The Semantic Web for Dummies
Dan Kusnetzky: Sun VDI 3.0 offers choice
Phil Wainewright: Auditors backtrack on SaaS revenue recognition
Larry Dignan: Top 10 undergraduate courses for the CIO track
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