May 20th, 2009

News to know: HP, Vista SP2; Pre; Oracle licensing

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:01 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Performance, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Server

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: HP’s second quarter on target; Big units take revenue lumps; Headcount cuts ahead

Mary Jo Foley: Where is Vista SP2?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Put together a solid barebones system for $350

• John Morris: Living with a netbook: The performance penalty

• D-Link router’s CAPTCHA flawed, WPA passphrase retrieved
• Ryan Naraine: Microsoft confirms server vulnerability warning
• Chink in encryption armor discovered
• Protect yourself from vishing attacks
• Microsoft warns of new server vulnerability
• ‘Gumblar’ web attacks spreading quickly

Matthew Miller: Review: First impressions of the HTC Touch Diamond2

Image Gallery: HTC Touch Diamond2 first impressions (right)

Larry Dignan: Palm Pre has a date: June 6; Price: $199.99; A ‘crossover’ device?

• Jennifer Bergen: Palm Pre launching two days before Apple’s WWDC announcement?
• Andrew Nusca: Summer soap opera: Palm Pre, Apple iPhone, Android army usher in “smart” age
• Wither the ’smartphone’: Reorganizing the mobile market when all devices get smart
• Gizmodo: Android Donut Interface Makes Us Forget All About Palm Pre 

Jennifer Leggio: Brand impersonation: A cautionary tale

Bits: Is Boston Still a Venture Capital Hotbed? 

Robin Harris: RAIDfail: Don’t use RAID 5 on small arrays

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft opens My Phone beta to the public

TechCrunch: Facebook Turns Down $8 billion Valuation Term Sheet, Claims 2009 Revenues Will Be $550 million 

Dana Blankenhorn: Blumenthal offers deadlines but puts off the hard decision

• Public EMR fears overblown

The plaintiffs’ problem with no software liability

• The defendants’ problem with software liability

Christopher Dawson: Update on the Latitude 2100: options=sticker shock.

• “The students don’t think of it as learning”
• Images: Dell Latitude 2100

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Cat Got Your Tongue: How Gossip Will Become The New Media

Rachel King: Price drops on digital cameras

Zack Whittaker: Can you go without gadgets for a week?

Kingsley-Hughes: Will these be the first DirectX 11 GPUs?

Leggio: Powered steps up branded communities with Facebook Connect integration

Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Sony Bravia HDTV, Logitech Harmony remote, ASUS LCD Monitor

Richard Koman: Judge: Shield law doesn’t protect online commenters

• Internet Archive’s Kahle: Stop Google’s book grab