April 9th, 2009
News to know: Microsoft; Facebook; Acer; WiFi health scare
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: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers SQL Server 2008 SP1
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 beta testers - get ready for a wipe and reload
Sam Diaz: FCC takes first step toward National Broadband plan
CNET News: Microsoft nabs Sun chip executive
- Oliver Marks: Google Secure Data Connector Powers Oracle Gadgets
- Andrew Nusca: New Acer laptops, netbooks: 10-hour batteries, multitouch gestures
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Acer AspireRevo nettop.
Gallery - John Morris: Details on Acer’s new notebooks, netbook and all-in-one
- How will Netbooks change our computing lives
Larry Dignan: The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?
- Richard Koman: Grid spyware: Deregulation bites us again
- Pentagon bill for cyberattack cleanup? $100 million
Gallery: zweiPhone stickers tone iPhone down
Jennifer Leggio: Fortune 500 Series: How Intel is listening, engaging with its community
- Facebook: 200 Million Strong
- Diaz: Facebook celebrates 200 million members
- Zack Whitaker Facebook reaches 200m users; is it too powerful?
- Jennifer Bergen: Twitter numbers on the rise, thanks to your parents?
- Paul Greenberg: Study Says Social Media Not Useful to Close Sales. Duh.
- CNET News: Techmeme founder: WSJ, NYT are aggregators
Dana Blankenhorn: Another WiFi health scare breaks out
- Yet another open source RIA tool
- Any friends OK for open source?
- Koman: Open Source Haggadah, chapter 1
Zack Whittaker: Citizen journalism captures 11 students arrested in counter-terror raids
ReadWriteWeb: This Machine Eats Tweets: The System Behind @Comcast and Others
Matthew Miller: CTIA 09: REDFLY Mobile Viewer free beta available now
Christopher Dawson: Intel awards innovation around Classmate PC
Jason O’Grady: Gift card scammers soliciting iPhone devs
Dana Gardner: Google Apps charges ahead with improved data security and long-awaited Java support
Dana Blankenhorn: Voice recognition a solution for medical luddism
Jasnice Chen: Where to get the cheapest online photo prints
Paul Miller: Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium
Dancho Danchev: Paul McCartney’s official site serving malware
Survey: Venture capitalist spirits perk up
Microsoft’s intelligence security report: The top 5 takeaways
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