August 21st, 2009
News to know: Apple; Salesforce.com; CRM; Microsoft; PayPal
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: Apple’s future TV: Can Web-based apps replace “channels,” kill cable?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 ‘Very Best Kit List’ for Sep/Oct 09
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft rolls out a refreshed Security Essentials, new SQL test builds and more
- Mozilla execs raise objections to Microsoft’s browser-ballot proposal
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: IE/EU bickering continues … Mozilla joins in land grab for eyeballs
Jason Hiner: TechRepublic: Most CIOs refuse to buy the hype on desktop virtualization
Sam Diaz: RealPlayer SP loses beta tag; delivers PC-to-mobile video sync
Bloomberg: Palm’s Colligan Said to Reject Steve Jobs Proposal to Stop Employee Hiring
- Larry Dignan: Apple, Palm rivalry redux: Poaching examined
- Jason O’Grady: The brain drain from Apple to Palm
- Episode 117: PowerPage Podcast
Andrew Nusca: Smartphone vs. feature phone arms race heats up; which did you buy?
- Matthew Miller: Forget 99 cent smartphone apps, let’s be fair to developers too
- Windows Mobile Summer love fest continues
Defamation or free speech? U.S. court orders Google to hand over identity of blogger
- Richard Koman: The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers
Rachel King: iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr
- Jennifer Bergen: Last Polaroid cameras and film to be sold at Urban Outfitters, hipsters rejoice
- Janice Chen: Canon gets smart: Lowers megapixels in the new PowerShot G11
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