April 22nd, 2009
News to know: RSA, AMD; Yahoo; Windows 8; $200 'Mac'
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.
RSA Conference:
- Tom Foremski: A conversation with Check Point’s Gil Schwed
- Symantec CEO: The future of security [video]
- RSA chief calls for ‘inventive collaboration’ [video]
- CIO Jury: Should you still be scared of malware?
- Dancho Danchev: Hackers hijack DNS records of high profile New Zealand sites
- Google’s CAPTCHA experiment and the human factor
- Sam Diaz: Cisco rolls out security upgrades at RSA
- Larry Dignan: Survey: Security doesn’t escape the IT spending axe
Sam Diaz: Yahoo’s Bartz: “No comment” on Microsoft deal (but maybe a hint). Techmeme
Larry Dignan: AMD: Tough first quarter; Ready for Intel encroachment for thin, light notebooks
Mary Jo Foley: Windows 8 starts to come into focus
- Microsoft trademarks two more names: Sift and Swivel
- Microsoft integrates more social-networking sites with Windows Live
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How will you be upgrading to Windows 7?
- Heather Clancy: Microsoft’s turn to tout its data center best practices
- Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft launches its Mayo-branded Healthvault
- Zack Whittaker: Web Messenger integrates into Hotmail. Gallery (right).
Joe McKendrick: Enterprise software: are customers being pressured so vendors can make their numbers?
- Michael Krigsman: Lawson Software: Positive first impressions
- Dan Kusnetzky: HP Adds to Thin Client Portfolio
Matthew Miller: Clash of the Touch Titans: iPhone 3.0 3G vs HTC Touch Diamond2
- $599 Viliv S5 ultra portable PC is looking good
- Quickoffice submitted update for iPhone will fix a few issues
- Chris Jablonski: Engineers create smartphones for ultrasound imaging
- Robin Harris: NAB ‘09: broadcast quality audio - on an iPhone!
Sam Diaz: The Mac ads: Still simple, still entertaining
- O’Grady: Apple’s new TV ads focus on iPhoto’s Faces and PC viruses and reliability
- Andrew Nusca: Why Apple’s new ad campaign is genius, and why Microsoft can’t win as ‘PC’
- Will a netbook save Apple’s Mac business?
- NVIDIA offers Quadro FX 4800 graphics card to Mac Pro users
Craigslist rival uses Twitter to expose dangers of CL’s red-light district
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: The 24-Hour Commercial: Signs of Our Times
Dana Blankenhorn: Election industry fights open source like it is 1999
Richard Koman: O’Reilly: Chopra is the Government 2.0 choice for CTO
Hitwise: Oprah Effect on Twitter
TechCrunch: News Corp. Exploring MySpace CEO Options
Boy Genius Report: We’ve got the goods on BlackBerry OS 5.0
Cyberspies breach US fighter-jet project: Report
Jennifer Bergen: LEGO Rock Band: Build your band, literally
Building a virtual B2B user community
Harry Fuller: If green is the new black, then 100 MPG is new green
Nearly 1 in 10 videogamers could be addicts, study says
Foley: All-women’s team makes Microsoft Imagine Cup contest finals
Garett Rogers: Similar Images, News Timeline and Google Labs relaunched
Sean Portnoy: Amazon finally adds HD titles to its Video On Demand service
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