July 21st, 2009
News to know: Yahoo's home page; Barnes & Noble; Microsoft's Linux Code; 3G iPod Touch
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: Yahoo’s new home page: Spending more time in your world
Larry Dignan: Barnes & Noble partners with Plastic Logic; Opens up; Targets Kindle
Mary Jo Foley: Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code
- Microsoft’s Linux code release: Not all fear and loathing in Linux land
- Dana Blankenhorn: With Microsoft code dump Novell tries to make nice
- Microsoft: Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community
Jason D. O’Grady: 3G iPod touch in two to three months?
Dennis Howlett: Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?
- Christopher Dawson: To host or not to host
- Joe McKendrick: Avoid accidental complexity, and 96 other things every software architect should know
- NYT: Lost in the Cloud
- Jeff Nolan: Cloud Computing and the Morning After
Sam Diaz: Report: Americans dumber than a box of rocks about spam
Zack Whittaker: The quest for the ultimate desktop experience
Gallery: 
The quest for the ultimate desktop experience
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How safe are your CD-Rs?
Andrew Nusca: Apple.com: Then, now, and how it should have been in ‘83
- David Morgenstern: The iPhone development ‘emergency guide’
- Jason O’Grady: Why don’t you like glossy screens?
Dignan: YouTube: Uploads don’t hurt our bottom line
Microsoft’s store foray: Compensating for the tech retail implosion?
Garett Rogers: YouTube in 3D: Ouch
Jason D. O’Grady: 3G iPod touch in two to three months?
Matthew Miller: iPhone 3GS browser speed tests can’t beat Opera Mobile 9.7
TorrentFreak; DRM is Dead, RIAA Says
Ruckus outdoor access points (right)
Hiner: Microsoft is switching from defense back to offense
Dan Kusnetzky: Savvis on Cisco’s Unified Computing System
Ryan Naraine: Some important truths about pen-testing
Jason Hiner: CIOs: How to waste your IT budget and get fired
Jennifer Bergen: T-Mobile offers deep discounts with Open Box program
AOL’s Armstrong: Dial-up matters (a lot)
TechCrunch: The Most Engaged Brands On The Web
Richard Koman: With Kazaa, TPB going legit, are illegal downloads over?
Kingsley-Hughes: Intel to debut “Postville” SSDs in August
Google Earth takes you to the moon
Rachel King: Understanding macro mode on a point-and-shoot camera
Linux exploit evades security barrier
Blankenhorn: Should your genes be open source?
EMC outlines where Data Domain will fit
Heather Clancy: Ricoh latest imaging tech company to offer “green office” assessment
Forbes: Apple’s Secret Weapon: Your Mom
Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Acer Aspire One netbook, Sanyo Xacti camcorder, Sony Cyber-shot
Christopher Dawson: Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education
Chris Jablonski: ‘Invisibility cloak’ could protect buildings against earthquakes
Michael Krigsman: TechTarget blogger of the week
Tom Foremski: A visit to Microsoft Research Labs in Cambridge
Harry Fuller: Having a bad air day?
Oliver Marks: IT Security: Context is King
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