July 2nd, 2009
News to know: Facebook privacy, Windows 7, Kindle, Firefox 3.5
Posted by Sam Diaz @ 2:00 am
Categories: News to know
Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Andrew Nusca, Privacy, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Operating Systems
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.
Sam Diaz: Facebook’s privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down
Ed Bott: Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium
Sam Diaz: Business intelligence comes to Kindle. Will companies care?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: 4.7 million Firefox 3.5 downloads … and counting!
Jason Hiner: Survey: 45% of IT departments will move to Windows 7, eventually; 43% refuse to migrate off Windows XP
Christopher Dawson: So about those illegal downloads
Joe McKendrick: Do we need cloud oriented architecture?
Brian Sommer: NetSuite vs. SAP?? How Newton would see this contest
Larry Dignan: Top 10 galleries of the year (so far)
Jennifer Bergen: Walkman turns 30, introduces OLED X Series: Can it compete with the iPod?
Andrew Mager: Live: Cisco Live Blogger Meetup
Heather Clancy: Some more Energy Star compatibility updates. This time, from Lenovo and Dell
Tom Foremski: Silicon Valley VCs proposed a plan to save newspapers in 1996
Dennis Howlett: NetSuite + AdaptivePlanning = BPM disruption
Heather Clancy: EPA, Climate Savers to host power management tips seminar
Phil Wainewright: WebEx augurs ill for Cisco’s cloud ambitions
Tom Foremski: Visionary 2009: Jim Clark on the importance of Stanford university to Silicon Valley
Dana Blankenhorn: WellAWARE of watching grandma
Matthew Miller: CoPilot Live GPS navigation solution now available for Google Android devices
Jason Perlow: PC OEMs: Please Cut the Crap!
Dennis Howlett: Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: turkeys voting for Christmas?
Andrew Nusca: Apple forecast: 12% Mac sales growth quarter to quarter
Garett Rogers: Gmail adds drag and drop
Jason Hiner: See why one CIO is migrating all Treos to iPhones
Sam Diaz: Ubuntu private clouds need more than tools; they need support, too
Heather Clancy: Should you really buy new gear or look for almost new?
Andrew Nusca: 60% of Americans would give up alcohol for their mobile phones
Rachel King: Nokia launching 12-megapixel camera phone
Sam Diaz: Lost phone reveals scary truth about mobile Web charges
Andrew Nusca: 21.5″ Alienware OptX HD widescreen flat panel display, $299
Stephanie Balaouras: How do we measure high availability?
Jason D. O’Grady: Nielsen: Average Apple.com visit lasts 74 minutes
Andrew Nusca: eMachines introduces trio of ET mini-tower desktop PCs; $299 to $449
Larry Dignan: LogMeIn’s IPO: The VCs made money. Will you?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft clips Butterfly program’s wings
Dave Greenfield: Google Voice Gets Presence
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Sony digital voice recorder, Canon PowerShot, Logitech Bluetooth headset
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft starts recruiting testers for its ‘Dublin’ app server
Larry Dignan: Overstock dumps affiliates, rants about tax-happy states
Harry Fuller: Nuclear power has political meltdowns
Dana Blankenhorn: Is the GPL losing its grip?
Mary Jo Foley: Report: Microsoft chooses ad agency for Pink phone campaign
Larry Dignan: RIM: Is the BlackBerry OS the weak link?
Andrew Nusca: Toybox Ten: 10 full-featured laptops for less than $750
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