July 14th, 2009
News to know: Office 2010; Dell; Moon tech; Apple; Software buyer's bill of rights
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Ed Bott: Office 2010 makes splashy debut
- Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to deliver tech preview build of Office 2010
Screenshots: An early look at Office 2010- Microsoft Office Web Apps: No test build until August
- Microsoft to flesh out further its private cloud strategy
- Forrester: Office 2010 Backstage: content + context = collaboration
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft jumps gun on Office 2010 announcement
- Techmeme
Foley: Take two: Microsoft says business licensees to get Windows 7 bits on September 1
- Microsoft shares more developer-focused Windows 7 E details
- Next-gen Microsoft Forefront security products get final names, pricing
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 build 7600 is RTM build
- Bott: The echo chamber misreads another Windows 7 survey
Larry Dignan: Dell’s analyst meeting: Looking for vision
Apple is ‘doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business’
Michael Krigsman: Evaluating the enterprise software buyer’s ‘Bill of Rights’
- And Dennis Howlett: A buy side response to the enterprise buyer’s Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- ERP + forms + flow: coexistense for the short term?
- Handicapping the CRM field: It’s tight
- Software AG swoops on IDS Scheer
- Your implementation is killing us
Bloomberg: Netflix Advances on Speculation of Buyout Offer From Amazon.com
HP aims to pitch print services - guaranteed
GigaOm: Verizon to Mobile Developers: Can You Hear Me Now?
Forrester: Deduplication market undergoes rapid changes
Dancho Danchev: ImageShack hacked by anti-full disclosure movement
NYT: Facebook Employees and Investors Can Finally Unload Stock
- Koman: Social networks change how we understand Sotomayor nomination
- Renegotiated MySpace deal to give Google an earnings boost next year
Matthew Miller: HandMarket Apps Windows Mobile application store in beta testing
Joe Brockmeier: Quick thoughts on the (possible) demise of OpenSolaris
Sean Portnoy: Mitsubishi to give free Vudu Box with purchase of new TV
Zack Whittaker: Can the networks support next-gen smartphone traffic?
ReadWriteWeb: Microsoft to Challenge Pandora, Last.fm Later This Month
Andrew Nusca: Hitachi SimpleTOUGH external HDD is water-resistant, shockproof to 9.8 ft.
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Hitachi announces two new external hard drives
- IronKey unveils enterprise USB flash drive with crypto, self-destruct security
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: September launch for Core i7 “Clarksfield” notebook CPUs?
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Lexmark all-in-one printer, Cyber-shot digital camera, Philips 47-inch HDTV
IBM introduces data-masking technology
Lesson of the day: Don’t text and walk over open manhole covers
Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley Intern Says Teens Don’t Twitter, Prefer Movies and Concerts
Heather Clancy: Could excess power consumption finally do in the mainframe?
Dan Kusnetzky: Wyse releases virtual desktop accelerator
Smart Outlook add-ons–screenshots
Jason Hiner: Chrome OS: 3 reasons it matters, 4 reasons it’s irrelevant
Rachel King: Fujifilm soon to release a 3D digital camera
Prosecutor: Cybercrime will follow the cloud
Tom Foremski: Should you have an urge to lifecast . . .
TechCrunch: The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO
Dana Blankenhorn: Can VLC 1.0 change the world?
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