August 11th, 2009
News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;
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: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo?
- Joe McKendrick: Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?
Sam Diaz: Facebook to acquire FriendFeed (Facebook press release; Friendfeed blog)
- Andrew Mager: Friendfeed under Facebook: love it or hate it?
Sam Diaz: Facebook opens new search feature to membership
Mary Jo Foley: Softies launch virtual suggestion box for improving Microsoft Office
- Microsoft delivers test versions of SQL Server 2008 R2
- Microsoft Live Labs moves ahead with ‘Seahorse’ rich-client application
Andrew Nusca: With virtualization, a way to wrangle mobile data costs in the enterprise
- Dana Gardner: BriefingsDirect analysts debate the ‘imminent death’ of enterprise IT as cloud models ascend
- Forrester: Don’t rely on industry averages for cost of downtime
- Joe McKendrick: SOA services: stop worrying about protocols, worry about the business
- Target’s departure from Amazon creates IT risk; Opportunity f
or GSI Commerce?
Larry Dignan: Can eBay be your new car dealer and reduce GM’s inventory?
Zack Whittaker: 10 bits of tech to get for the back-to-school student
- Gallery: Back-to-school tech for students (top right)
- 10 bits of tech the back-to-school student should avoid
- Gallery:
Tech which back-to-school students should avoid (bottom right)
BMC picks up MQSoftware, expands into middleware management
Jason Perlow: Opt Me Out! The United States Postal Service Needs an Overhaul
Sam Diaz: Watch what you send, post, tweet about your company; The boss may be watching
Jason Hiner: TechRepublic: U.S. CIOs are starting to warm up to the iPhone
Robin Harris: Fed’s RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon
John Morris: Why not all 12-inch netbooks are the same
Joe McKendrick: Federal government validates cloud computing
Brian Sommer: Where’s my wedding invite? SAP and Tibco?
Silicon Alley Insider: King Of The Apple Geeks
Dana Blankenhorn: Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?
Matthew Miller: The T-Mobile myTouch 3G fixes G1 issues
NYT: Bank Will Allow Customers to Deposit Checks by iPhone
Bloomberg: Nortel Chief Mike Zafirovski Steps Down as Asset Sales Near Completion
CNet News: Apple working on software fix for MacBook Pro hard drives
Nusca: Microsoft Zune HD shows off interface in video
- Sony laptops can’t use Windows 7 XP mode thanks to disabled hardware virtualization
- Report: Dell launching mobile phone this week; will it be Android?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?
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