September 1st, 2009
News to know: VMWorld; Disney-Marvel; netbooks; Blackberry Storm; mobile banking; 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.
Dan Kusnetzky: Doing the VMworld Dance, Day 1
- Jason Perlow: Frugal Tech Show: Speaking with Centrify at VMWorld 2009
- Dan Kusnetzky: FalconStor at VMworld
Andrew Nusca: SmartPlanet: Disney buys Marvel for $4 billion; here’s why it’s a smart business move
Mary Jo Foley: Report: Netbooks now one-fifth of portable PC shipments
Andrew Nusca: Verizon cuts BlackBerry Storm pricing to $49.99; sheds inventory for Storm 2 in Oct.
Sam Diaz: Apps make mobile banking cool; Banks working on security perceptions
Andrew Nusca: Apple confirms Sept. 9, 2009 ‘rock and roll’ iPod event; new shuffle desperately needed
Garett Rogers: Google cracks down on slow gadgets
Matthew Miller: Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 announced for 8 September release
Michael Krigsman: Bake off: On-premise vs. SaaS toasters
Richard Koman: MySpace suicide case: conviction overturned
Andrew Nusca: Adobe acquires Business Catalyst, GoodBarry
Sam Diaz: Macworld without Apple: The show will go on
David Morgenstern: Snow Leopard: What’s the hurry to upgrade?
Andrew Nusca: Report: 1 in 5 portable computers shipped are netbooks
Paula Thornton: Debunking Enterprise 2.0 failure
ZDNet Asia: Windows 7 works great on the MacBook Pro
Jennifer Bergen: SanDisk introduces slightly improved Sansa Clip+ MP3 player
James Staten: Xen.org: Stop the forking. Forrester: About time
Mary Jo Foley: Office 2010: What Microsoft will and won’t say
Dana Gardner: HP panel examines proper security hurdles on road to successful enterprise cloud computing adoption
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Larry Dignan: Report: Tech component inventory lean (perhaps too lean)
Christopher Dawson: Color-coding wikipedia: how’s that for legitimacy?
Heather Clancy: Carbon calculator as value-added service: Consider the case of Sabre
Andrew Nusca: This is the Dell Mini 3i smartphone
Christopher Dawson: Wikipedia: What’s good for the goose?
Larry Dignan: An odd Yahoo Mail search bug that requires escalation pronto
Harry Fuller: LEED, Energy Star and rah, rah, rah…
Jason D. O’Grady: Thieves: Beware the iPhone
Andrew Nusca: Asus Eee PC roadmap leaked: Ion netbooks, multitouch T91; ultrathin PCs
Harry Fuller: denial:global warming=creation:evolution?
Dana Gardner: Harnessing ‘virtualization sprawl’ requires managing an ecosystem of technologies, suppliers
Dana Blankenhorn: Blackie asks the hard questions on health care
Larry Dignan: Hacker Gonzalez to plead guilty in TJX hack; A hollow victory?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Dissecting the FSF’s “Windows 7 Sins”
Jason D. O’Grady: Snow Leopard gets battery forensics
Dana Blankenhorn: Why health care is not in the Constitution
Larry Dignan: How CIOs can foster feedback from their staff
Joe McKendrick: Wal-Mart to compete against Amazon; are Wal-Mart Web Services next?
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Panasonic digital camera, TomTom ONE GPS, Sanyo waterproof camcorder
Dana Gardner: Open Group points standards at service-orientation architecture needs and approaches
CNET: Snow Leopard geared for multicore future
Mary Jo Foley: Bing: Decision engine = shopping engine
Andrew Nusca: Microsoft Bing cashback: ’splendid commercial bribery’
Zack Whittaker: An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?
Sam Diaz: Trend Micro launches enhanced security, tools for tracking Web usage
Dana Blankenhorn: Should open source hate Apple?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Your next PC .. next year and the year after!
Matthew Miller: Back to school special: QWERTY messaging phones
Larry Dignan: A spirited defense of the Google Book Search settlement
Tom Foremski: Has Steve Jobs banned Apple staff from social media?
Paul Greenberg: Voice of The Customer: Speech Meets Larynx at CRM Evolution 2009
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