June 17th, 2009

News to know: Apple vs. Palm; Windows 7; Adobe; Twitter and Iran

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:00 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Windows, Mice, Sales Strategy, Desktops

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: Apple: Third party (read Palm Pre) iTunes sync can work (for now)

Jason O’Grady: A fix for Mail unexpectedly quitting in 10.5.7

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: What’s really new in Windows 7? The answer, not much!

• Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 OEM pricing: What could and should Microsoft do?
• Will touchscreen Windows 7 netbooks be hot or not?
• Microsoft seeks trademark for ‘hohm’
• Larry Dignan: XP to Windows 7 handoff expected to boost PC sales
• Zack Whittaker: Windows 7 has a new default wallpaper and logo

Adobe’s quarter, outlook on target

Richard Koman: Iranian protesters take to the tweets

• Anderson Cooper: State Department to Twitter: Keep Iranian tweets coming
• NYT: Social Networks Spread Defiance Online
• CNet News: Twitterverse working to confuse Iranian censors

Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.5 team aims for RC2

Citrix XenServer 5.5, Essentials 5.5 ship

Red Hat’s KVM-based virtualization platform moves into beta testing

Gallery: Fixing a cracked iPod Touch screen

Dana Blankenhorn: CompuTex Linux found in Israel

• Ubuntu aims at healing Linux’s ‘paper cuts’
• Data and software both want to be shared
• Is Vyatta now part of Microsoft keiretsu?

Kingsley-Hughes: Apple details Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date program

Jason O’Grady: Camping with your Mac

Ed Burnette: Mobile megahertz madness heats up

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: The Cost of the Free Internet

Sean Portnoy: FCC says transition to digital TV has been fairly smooth

Brian Sommer: Adding agility to Compuware’s Changepoint

• Forrester: IBM’s CloudBurst is a credible step forward
• Green storage has limited ROI, but supports overall efficiency
• Joe McKendrick: SOA drives ‘the most important business in the world’
• Dana Gardner: HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations
• ‘Everything’ as a service future means transforming IT for efficiency and scale, says HP’s Livermore
• PostgreSQL delivers alternative for MySQL users wary of Oracle’s Sun acquisition
• Phil Wainewright: Netviewer aims to outshine WebEx in Europe

Harry Fuller: Big brains reax to NOAA global warming warnings

• Oops, seems we’re trashing our own seacoast, still
• NOAA sounding like Noah: head for the hills