March 30th, 2009
News to know: IBM, Open Cloud Manifesto, Web 2.0 Expo, Conficker, Microsoft ad
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: IBM revamps server lineup based on Intel’s Nehalem
Larry Dignan: Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?
- Mary Jo Foley: Amazon not joining the Open Cloud Manifesto, either
- Larry Dignan: The Open Cloud Manifesto: Publish it already
Jennifer Leggio: Web 2.0 Expo: Recommended sessions for social business
- Christopher Dawson: Has the UK gone too far in social media education?
Ryan Naraine: CBS 60 Minutes covers Conficker, malware epidemic
- Jason Perlow: Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaning
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft’s “I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person” ad tries to kick Apple where it hurts
- Sam Diaz: Microsoft ad: Lauren wanted a Mac but ’settled’ for Windows
- Jason D. O’Grady: Microsoft’s new “price” television commercial (Updated)
Dana Gardner: HP advises strategic view of virtualization to dramatically cut IT costs, gain efficiency and usher in cloud benefits
Garett Rogers: Is the Google Car next?
Harry Fuller: Getting green ideas spread around
Andrew Nusca: Study: Tech can overwhelm twentysomethings, but not enough to go offline
Oliver Marks: Collaboration Return-On-Investment
Harry Fuller: Landfill trash to methane to ethanol–a fuel cycle
Jason D. O’Grady: iPhone OS 3.0 bricking pirated iPhones
Matthew Miller: Weekend PSA; subscribe to the Smartphones & Cell Phones blog
Sean Portnoy: Pricing for 2009 HDTV sets leaks before Samsung’s official announcement
Paul Murphy: A recommendation on leasing new equipment
Harry Fuller: American cars mandated to get greener
Ryan Naraine: Mozilla kills Firefox Pwn2Own bug
Chris Jablonski: Artificial blood, cartilage, and…brain?
Michael Krigsman: Project governance and failure
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Not Enough Time in the Day to … Watch TV.
Photo Gallery: See the new Tesla Model S
James Farrar: G20, London Loony Lamposts and Banking Undue Diligence
Sean Portnoy: Signing off from the SOHO Networking blog
Matthew Miller: BibleTech 2009; reaching eternity through technology
Harry Fuller: The CFL kerfuffle
Richard Koman: Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai Lama
Larry Dignan: What a difference a decade makes: Barron’s proclaims Amazon best retailer
Brian Sommer: Why are the pieces of BearingPoint going to Auditors???
Heather Clancy: Uptime conference will focus on strategy that marries IT reliability must-haves with energy-efficiency goals
Andrew Nusca: Are solid state drives doomed?
Christopher Dawson: “School Bus Yellow” Dell netbook leaked - I mean School Bus Orange
- Andrew Nusca: Dell offers PC that packs 192GB of DDR3 RAM [not a typo]
Andrew Nusca: Quickfire Deal: Free BlackBerry Bold from AT&T, today only
Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #167, Whispersync, iPhone 3.0 notification, and Opera Mobile with Turbo
Dana Blankenhorn: A firehose of free at Google Analytics
Mary Jo Foley: IE 8: Can I have the lite version?
Andrew Nusca: U.S. ranks highest in world for originating attack traffic in Q4 2008
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The state of Linux - Is it ready for the “average” user?
Dana Blankenhorn: Dean at critical point in health reform debate
Andrew Nusca: Study: Eight hours spent in front of screens, age 45-54 watch most
Jennifer Bergen: iTunes price hike: Really? $1.29?
Larry Dignan: Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us
Paul Greenberg: CRM Playaz Episode #3: Twitter Hall of Shame; Customer Service - Sometimes It Hurts
Andrew Nusca: Report: Asus to launch Eee PC with optical drive in April
Dana Blankenhorn: Is RealAge a scam?
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Seagate hard drives, Dell widescreen monitor, Philips Blu-ray player
Dana Blankenhorn: Yes to new open source business models, no to whinging
CNET: Twitter still has no business model, and that’s OK
Larry Dignan: Accenture: Some clients are operating without annual budgets
Dan Kusnetzky: Living with the Eye of the Storm - an Entuity customer profile
VIDEO: From Internet to enternet, creating the energy network [video]
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