July 22nd, 2009
News to know: Microsoft, Yahoo; AMD; Apple
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: Who will get the Windows 7 bits and when?
- Microsoft’s fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see slides
Slideshow: A look ahead at Microsoft’s FY 2010 launch plans
Larry Dignan: The Microsoft-Yahoo thaw is underway: Bartz likes Bing
Sam Diaz: No surprise: Apple beats for Q3; Jobs “thrilled” over iPhone sales, app store downloads
- Techmeme on Apple’s quarter
- David Morgenstern: Apple: iPhone adoption in the enterprise to climb
- Jason O’Grady: Apple’s Q3 2009: best non-holiday quarter in company history
AMD’s second quarter margins squeezed
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Intel Core i5 … coming Sept 6th?
- Andrew Nusca: Intel debuts 34nm NAND flash SSDs; lowers prices 60%
Dell slashes Adamo price by $500; still trails Apple’s MacBook Air
- Adesso wireless mini trackball keyboard more useful as a bludgeon [review]
- Klipsch unveils S4i, in-ear headphones alternative for iPhone, iPod shuffle
- Lexar debuts 64GB, 128GB, 256GB Crucial M225 SSDs
- Kingston debuts world’s first 256GB USB thumb drive
- Three new Shure pro studio headphones announced; $59 to $199
Brian Sommer: Google, Microsoft and Zoho
CNet News: Apple confirms death of iPhone worker in China
Diaz: Facebook at work: ‘Social Notworking’?
Dancho Danchev: Adobe ships insecure version of Reader from official site
Photos: Redesigning the router
Joe McKendrick: SOA, cloud: it’s the architecture that matters
- SOA security issues best addressed by empowered service consumers
- Dana Gardner: SOA and security: Are services the problem or the solution?
- Engine Yard launches robust Ruby cloud-based deployment platform service
- Open Group conference shows how security standards and governance hold keys to enterprise cloud adoption
- TIBCO joins governance ecology support with HP’s SOA lifecycle software
- Enterprises seek better ways to discover, manage and master their information explosion headaches
Heather Clancy: Balance of power: Windows 7 walks fine line between saving battery life and alienating users
Olive drab isn’t the only green the Army cares about
Tom Foremski: From Cambridge, the innovation capital of Europe…
Wired: Laid Off? It’s Good for You and Good for the Tech Industry
Diaz: Silicon Valley’s recession rebound: Optimism or Arrogance?
Splunk: Tearing down IT walls and opening data to non-IT staffers
Reuters: Rural U.S. carriers unimpressed with Verizon offer
Forrester: 2.2 billion people online globally by 2013 (43% in Asia)
Paula Rooney: Is Microsoft’s GPL2 support really a big deal?
Growing need for digital asset management
Andrew Mager: Face.com auto-tags photos on Facebook and finds photos of you [invites]
Adobe open sources Flash platforms
Six steps to future-proof your telephone system
Large Hadron Collider delayed again by vacuum leaks
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