July 29th, 2009
News to know: Microhoo; Multilingual spam; Apple; Verizon; Sprint
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.
Larry Dignan: Microsoft-Yahoo search pact appears to be a win-win (if smaller) deal
Dancho Danchev: Spammers go multilingual, use automatic translation services
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that’s wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single package
- Larry Dignan: Verizon Wireless to developers: ‘Our success is tied to you’
- Sprint increases bet on prepaid; Buys Virgin Mobile USA
- GigaOm: The Fact & Fiction of Google Voice’s iPhone Rejection
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft privately testing Office 2010 streaming-download model
Dennis Howlett: Salesforce.com: rethinking the database
Dancho Danchev: 419 scammers using Dilbert.com
John Morris: Report: Acer back-tracking on Android in August
Virgin Galactic unveils Eve; Snares Abu Dhabi investment
Forrester: IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS
- Dignan: IBM buys SPSS in move to bolster analytics portfolio
- IBM launches business analytics system
- CNet News: IBM buys security provider Ounce Labs
Andrew Nusca: A ‘personal cloud’ with Novatel’s MiFi 2372 3G Wi-Fi hotspot; AT&T, T-Mobile
Chris Jablonski: HP’s newest supercomputer geared for energy and environment
Jennifer Bergen: BlackBerry Storm price dropped to $99.99: Is that enough?
Tom Foremski: The real-time web versus the static web . . .
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft external PR chief to get a blue badge
Ad Age: The Web Is Flat: Why Time Spent Online Is Leveling Off
HP darknet is ‘not for dissidents’
Firefox 4.0 looks like Chrome?
- Mozilla 4.0 themes: Providing more real estate
Gallery: Firefox 4 preview plays with tabs, lights- Browser-based mobile apps need to get better in a hurry
Zack Whittaker: The “offline Twitter” experiment
Rachel King: ImageSpan and liveBooks announce new partnership
Dana Blankenhorn: Obesity is the health reform fault line
- Variety: Twitter fizzles at Comic-Con
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