June 18th, 2009
News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm
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.
Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public
Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting to cellular data network
- David Morgenstern: Signs of iPhone growing pains at Apple’s WWDC?
- What can you expect with the iPhone OS 3.0 update?
- Ryan Naraine: Apple iPhone OS 3.0 update plugs 46 security holes
- New iPhone 3.0 OS available
- Sam Diaz: Can MLB.com hit an iPhone homerun with AT&T powering the network?
- Jason O’Grady: Some pre-ordered iPhone 3GS’ delayed
- AT&T revises iPhone upgrade eligibility policy
- How-to: Enable tethering under iPhone 3.0 right now
- Walt Mossberg: New iPhone Is Better Model — Or Just Get OS 3.0
- Jason Perlow: What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?
Microsoft to scale back Soapbox video service
Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity
Richard Koman: Genachowski sails through FCC confirmation hearings
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: ‘Quality Scores’ For Web Content: How Numbers Will Create A ‘Beautiful Cycle of Greatness for Us All’
TED: Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could you switch over to being 100% open source?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Will Ubuntu remain a minor player
- Christopher Dawson: Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the States
Ed Bott: Hands on with the Windows 7 Touch Pack
PE Hub Blog: Private Equity and Venture Capital To Be Regulated
BoomTown: MySpace: After the Layoffs, Here’s What’s What and What’s Next
Gallery: 
Sony “Zappin” B-Series Walkman
Mary Jo Foley: More alleged Microsoft Morro screen shots, details leak
- Microsoft bets big on a new platform subscription license
- Kingsley-Hughes: Beware of Windows 7 downgrade/upgrade mess
Rachel King: Retro is the wave of the future for camera design
Larry Dignan: Bing’s search boost continues, but will the gains hold?
- IRS asks to drop work cellphone personal usage tax; Calls it obsolete
- IDC: Server spending tanks in second quarter, but the worst is over
- Google Apps Sync cuts off Outlook’s desktop search
Phil Wainewright: Adobe morphs the online spreadsheet
Sample photos: Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS
Jennifer Leggio: Building walls between PR, journalists: A worst practice
- Zack Whittaker: Organisations: who should and shouldn’t blog
Paul Miller: Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Flip Mino camcorder, Sharp 19-inch HDTV, Sennheiser headphones
Jason Hiner: BlackBerry Tour offers solid features, but adds to branding confusion
Heather Clancy: Best practices resources for paper cuts of the environmental sort
- Green IT video case studies to watch at your leisure
- Audit finds DOE could do more to amp up IT energy efficiency
- Harry Fuller: The media have been wrong on climate change before…
- Global warming: what will American politicians do? Rest of world?
Dell bolsters virtualization, data center portfolio
Andrew Nusca: Disney, Asus launch ‘Netpal’ netbook for kids
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