September 8th, 2009
News to know: E-readers; Web OS and IT; VMware; Cisco
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.
Dion Hinchcliffe: How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business
- Oliver Marks: Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration
- Joe McKendrick: Enterprise architecture pitfalls: the obvious, and beyond the obvious
Ed Bott: Follow-up: six online music services revisited
Jason Perlow: VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee
Jason Hiner: ASUS low-cost touchscreen ebook expected by end of 2009
- Engadget: ASUS planning dual screen Eee Reader: world’s cheapest e-book reader
- Times of London: Tech news: For the smarter kind of bookworm
Techmeme: NYT’s David Pogue and disclosure…
Janice Chen: Stanford’s open-source camera lets the public choose camera features
- Dana Blankenhorn: How an open source camera will change photography
- Rachel King: Five digital cameras for going back to school
Matthew Miller: Review: Astak EZReader 5 inch Pocket PRO ebook device
Image Gallery: A walk around the Astak EZReader Pocket PRO 5 inch (right)
Blankenhorn: Why open source remains an ideological divide
TechCrunch: Life Recorders May Be This Century’s Wrist Watch
Bloomberg: Google Agrees to Give Europeans a Say in Books Deal
Christopher Dawson: Cushing Academy leads the way with e-books
Brian Sommer: HP to Cut Loose its BPO operations?
John Morris: Sony, Nokia plan premium netbooks
- Gallery:
Sony Vaio X Series up close (right)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AT&T customers speak out over poor service
Six days in and first Snow Leopard update seeded to devs
Richard Koman: Amazon makes up for ‘1984′ snafu but the chapter isn’t over
- Andrew Nusca: Amazon offers redelivery, $30 to users who owned ‘1984′
Court stays ban on Microsoft Word sales
Larry Dignan: 10 things you can do while waiting for the Palm Pre to boot
Michael Krigsman: Exploring the Devil’s Triangle
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft FTP in IIS vulnerability now under attack
Dan Kusnetzky: Delta/Northwest Airline Adventure
Paul Murphy: For your safety and convenience
Chris Jablonski: Brown University economists measure GDP growth from outer space
Garett Rogers: New Gmail themes available, or create your own
Richard Koman: Makers offer little help for lost or stolen devices
Paula Rooney: EU right to investigate Oracle’s MySQL buy
Mary Jo Foley: More Microsoft layoffs, a resignation and other pre-Labor Day tidbits
Dennis Howlett: Is your supply chain gonna kill you?
Joe McKendrick: Enough of RESTless SOA? Speak now or forever hold your peace
Photos: IFA through the years, a gadget evolution
Photos: Miss IFA shows off red-hot gadgets
Dana Gardner: VMworld, Red Hat Summit news takes cloud computing beyond the hype curve
Andrew Nusca: OLED notebooks to ship by late 2010, Samsung says
Jason O’Grady: AT&T’s mea culpa on MMS (Sept. 25)
Zack Whittaker: Google: Pot, kettle, black, Chrome OS and a potential antitrust
- Sniping over Google Books Settlement intensifies
- Call for court to impose privacy regime on Google Books
- Android bolsters its app market as device lineup swells
- Authors Guild calls Amazon ‘hypocritical’
- EPIC seeks to intervene in Books settlement, says privacy policies are no solution
- Does Google Book privacy policy go far enough?
Jason Perlow: Frugal Friday: Media Outrageousness, Snow Leopard Woes, Mac Virtualization, VMWorld 2009, EU kiboshes Oracle/Sun, Brocade
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Sony BRAVIA HDTV, SanDisk Sansa Clip, Creative Labs Zen Mozaic MP3 player
Sean Portnoy: Panasonic adds 58-inch, 65-inch plasma HDTVs to Viera V10 series
Photos: Mars orbiter’s abstract impressions
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