September 17th, 2009
News to know: Skype; reCAPTCHA; Oracle Q1; Zune HD; Bing
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: Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale
- Dave Greenfield: Skype Founders Sue eBay and Investors
Andrew Mager: Google buys reCAPTCHA: Digitize old books and fight spam
- Ryan Naraine: Google + reCAPTCHA could raise bar in anti-bot, anti-spam battle
- Sam Diaz: Google scores a 2-for-1 with reCAPTCHA acquisition
Sam Diaz: Oracle’s Q1: “We grew faster than SAP”
Matthew Miller: Hands on: 32GB Zune HD walk around and first impressions
Sam Diaz: Bing usage jumps 22 percent, now at 10 percent share
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches a ‘private cloud’ blog
Sam Diaz: Washington finally embraces tech; the benefits will be here soon
Zack Whittaker: Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?
Matthew Miller: Opera Mini 5 beta released for BlackBerry and Java phones
Brian Sommer: Interview with Microsoft’s Seth Patton
Dancho Danchev: Phishers introduce ‘Chat-in-the-Middle’ fraud tactic
Jason Perlow: Skooba Design backpack sweeps you through security
Harry Fuller: GridWeek–this is not about football
ZDNet UK: Intel to help with Chrome for netbooks
Larry Dignan: The Adobe-Omniture deal: Does it make sense?
Andrew Nusca: VIA unveils SurfBoard NetNote netbook with 1080p playback
CNET: New scam adds live chat to phishing attack
Harry Fuller: Current EPA regime to revisit previous smog rulings
Andrew Nusca: Sony A-series Walkman is thinnest yet; 64GB, OLED, noise cancellation
Dana Gardner: Jericho Forum aims to guide enterprises through risk mitigation landscape for cloud adoption
Brian Sommer: Microsoft’s Project 2010
Jennifer Bergen: Are you suffering from BlackBerry Tour trackball problems?
Sam Diaz: Facebook ranks in privacy poll; Users like control of their content
Tom Foremski: Staff are causing security breaches by using their own mobile phones says survey
Jennifer Leggio: IDC forecasts $1.6 billion online community software market by 2013
Andrew Nusca: Tweet: Google to buy Brightcove for $500 to $700 million
Jennifer Leggio: Eight top picks from TechCrunch50
Dana Blankenhorn: Max Baucus’ bet on John Castellani
Matthew Miller: Celio announces REDFLY driver for BlackBerry coming soon
Joe McKendrick: First there was WS-*, now we have REST-*
Jason D. O’Grady: Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft confirms notification of EU about its Yahoo search deal
Richard Koman: EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG anticompetitive?
Michael Krigsman: Social CRM reality check
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Philips universal remote, Logitech keyboard, Kodak EasyShare digital camera
Andrew Nusca: Seagate debuts first consumer NAS with FreeAgent DockStar
ZDNet UK: ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft starts warning of support phase-out for older Windows Server releases
ZDNet Asia: Web 2.0 sites - prime target for attacks, report
Larry Dignan: HP bolsters networking lineup
Dana Blankenhorn: If you liked Microsoft CodePlex you will love MySpace FoxForge
Phil Wainewright: Adobe ties web design to business results
Dana Blankenhorn: ClarkConnect becomes ClearOS
Heather Clancy: IBM opens up systems framework for energy companies
Sean Portnoy: Seagate tries to stay relevant in living rooms with FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player
Dan Kusnetzky: Citrix adds virtual machine delivery to XenApp’s bag of tricks
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is browser speed now an irrelevant metric? No!
Dan Kusnetzky: Web conferencing blues
Christopher Dawson: Will online education kill the university?
TR Dojo: Disable AutoRun on Windows XP and Vista with a quick registry hack
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