October 13th, 2009
News to know: T-Mobile; Cloud computing; Oracle; HP; 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.
Andrew Nusca: HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV?
- HP Elite 7000 business desktop PC offers Core i5 and i7; clad in metal, black
- HP’s new ProBook Windows 7 business laptops have drain in keyboard that saves PC, not pants, from spills
- Compaq offers 15.6-in. Windows 7 laptop for $399; mini-tower desktop, $309
- Compaq offers 500B, 505B budget desktop PCs; start at $359
Phil Wainewright: The cloud: no place for amateurs
- Dennis Howlett: SaaS Customer Bill of Rights: right thing, right time
Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile Sidekick data outage tests mettle of 800,000 customers, carrier
- Matthew Miller: T-Mobile offers Sidekick customers $100 credit, is that enough to retain them all?
- Jason Perlow: In the aftermath of the T-Mobile Chernobyl
- CNet News: T-Mobile halts sales of Sidekick
- T-Mobile says Sidekick data may yet return
- Gizmodo: T-Mobile Lets Furious Sidekick Users Ditch Their Contracts for Free
- T-Mobile ‘everything unlimited’ plan to offer voice, SMS, MMS, data for $50?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Has the Snow Leopard bug hosed your data?
Michael Krigsman: Oracle’s integration strategy: Customer trade-offs
Jason Hiner: McNealy zings iPhone, laments the PC, claims Sun started open source
- Sam Diaz: Oracle OpenWorld: Getting down to business
- Brian Sommer: What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week
- Dennis Howlett: SAP and Oracle going head to head
Gallery: Sneak peeks at 8 emerging technologies
Larry Dignan: Google-Apple boards of directors no longer linked
Christopher Dawson: Google Wave: Begging for a classrom
Zack Whittaker: Cloud storage vs. flash storage: Security vs. simplicity
Salesforce.com, Dell target SMBs
Heather Clancy: Upcoming energy efficiency research from Pew will provide corporate benchmarks
Joe McKendrick: ‘Lean IT’: another buzzphrase for something we’ve been trying to do all along?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Technology is great, it’s us that’s flawed!
CNet News: Downed Facebook accounts still haven’t returned
Dave Greenfield: 7 Ways to Boost Your Productivity By Playing Online
Andrew Nusca: HP reveals ‘Beats Limited Edition’ Envy 15 laptop
- Man drops active Palm Pre in cold beer; lives to tell tale
- HTC Hero now on sale on Sprint: Palm Pre or HTC Hero?
- Accessories reveal that RIM BlackBerry Storm 2 (9550) just around the corner
- New Windows Phone ad an alternate universe where Office is your friend
- With new tech support biz, Florence Henderson will help your parents learn the computer
Technologizer: Windows Vista: A Review Recap
Tom Foremski: The key to understanding Google - CEO admits it is a media company
Dana Blankenhorn: Why the big Android bandwagon?
VentureBeat: Only 17 venture capital firms raise money in Q3 — fewest in 15 years
Janice Chen: DSLR remote iPhone app adds Nikon D300s support, fixes compatiblity issues
David Morgenstern: Useful Mac Mail tips
Are Mac OS X and Apple servers making inroads with the Feds?
Gallery: HP’s Mini 311 with Nvidia Ion graphics
Rachel King: Photoshop releases an iPhone app
Howlett: The case of the missing iPhone 3GS’s
Jennifer Leggio: Quick’n'Dirty Podcast: Lucky number 18 and hashtag chats
Yahoo plots app mall, app portability through its properties
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal’s daily deals: Gateway desktop, Kodak EasyShare digital camera, Garmin nuvi GPS
ArsTechnica: 100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words
NYT: Lufthansa Bringing Back Onboard Wi-Fi
Gallery: Largest ring discovered around Saturn
Nusca: Aliph Jawbone Prime Bluetooth headset sets bar on style, customization, quality
Perot Systems acquires BearingPoint’s China consulting unit
With AppSense, making sense of managing the virtual desktop user experience
Acorn co-founder talks early computers
Inhabitat: LG Unveils Solar Powered E-Book Reader
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