July 6th, 2009
News to know: Best hardware; Malware; Netbooks; Social CRM
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.
Paul Greenberg: Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 ‘Very Best Kit List’ for Jul/Aug 09
Dancho Danchev: EyeWonder malware incident affects popular web sites
John Morris: Cheaper ultraportables meet more powerful netbooks
Brian Sommer: Bleak Xmas Ahead: Where’s the innovation I need to fill the stockings?
Matthew Miller: Review: RIM BlackBerry Handsfree Visor Mount Speakerphone
WSJ: Crunch Time: How Tough Is Tech?
Rachel King: Five tips to better beach pictures
Mark Cuban: When you succeed with Free, you are going to die by Free
Ed Burnette: Android set to launch in Japan, 1.5 deployment “nearly complete”
- Matthew Miller: Archos Google Android-based Internet Media Tablet to be revealed 15 September
- Unwired View: First Sony Ericsson Xperia (X5?) Android phone “Rachael”, and strange “Kiki” with transparent display
Jason O’Grady: The correct way to use your MacBook’s battery
- How-to: Reset a noisy optical drive in the Mid-2009 MacBook Pro
- Episode 113: PowerPage Podcast
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple issues “common sense” heat advice for iPhone 3G/3G S
BizJournals: Tech blog titan Michael Arrington’s next big thing: Hardware
- NYT: Apple, Acer and…Arrington?
- Christopher Dawson: Is the Crunchpad an education game-changer?
Is Michael Jackson telling us not to use Google Apps?
Garett Rogers: Google Voice is now even better
Paul Murphy: Microsoft gets something right! Well, maybe.
Top 10 videos of the year (so far)
Photos: Soaring ambition for solar aircraft
Heather Clancy: Green IT tips for small businesses: Analysys moves data center offsite for big power savings
Robin Harris: Modern threats to American liberty
- Matthew Miller: Celebrate 4th of July on your smartphone with Handmark Fireworks
- Vote in TechRepublic’s mock election for ‘President of the Internet’
- Dennis Howlett: 4th July fun: Cloud confusion
- GigaOm: America’s Secret Innovation Weapon: Immigration
Chris Jablonski: ‘EvoGrid’ to model life’s origins, and maybe answer the big questions
Dana Blankenhorn: Will security paranoia kill wireless health IT?
Jason Perlow: Frugal Friday: Optimum Ultra and DOCSIS 3.0, Crapware, When to replace a PC, Engine Yard and Ruby on Rails
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: 60 GB Apple iPod, 250 GB Archos 5, Logitech keyboard and mouse combo
TechRepublic: IT hiring and salaries are down
RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Verizon Wireless) photos
Sean Portnoy: Sonos touchscreen remote on the way?
Joe McKendrick: Oracle’s FusionFest: BEA underneath, dogfood, Sun on the horizon
- Dana Gardner: Oracle Fusion 11g Middleware: Executed according to plan
Heather Clancy: Rural energy grant deadline approaches: Aids renewable energy technology investments
Harry Fuller: Biofuel fraud exposes some big names
- “Organic” Marketing melarky, not scientific term
- Hollywood celebrity explains her West Virginia expedition
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