November 20th, 2009
News to know: Google Chrome OS; Dell; AOL; Microsoft
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:
Google Chrome coverage:
- Ryan Naraine: Inside the Google Chrome OS security model
- Larry Dignan: Google’s Chrome OS: Will you give up d
esktop apps? - Sam Diaz: Live from Googleplex: Chrome OS details revealed
- Paula Rooney: Google makes Chrome OS open source today
- Jason Perlow: Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Google Chrome OS announcement
- Dana Blankenhorn: ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall
- Do we need a ‘beautiful mess’ in operating systems? Yup
- Gallery: Chrome OS revealed
- Google: Releasing the Chromium OS open source project
- Chrome OS documentation
Larry Dignan: Dell’s third quarter disappoints yet it sees IT demand improving
Dreamforce coverage:
- Jennifer Leggio: Hello Salesforce Chatter, so long Yammer?
- Brian Sommer: Dreamforce post#2: Chatter, Events, REA and the Future of Management
- Dennis Howlett: Chatter: Amplified
- How FinancialForce crushes it in SaaS accounting
New PDF downloads: Readers Choice: Top 25 lightweight apps
2009 Smartphone and Carrier Buying Guide
Larry Dignan: AOL: Will Armstrong get any honeymoon?
CNet News: Going rate for acquisitions at Intuit: $170 million
Unboxing the free PDC laptop (photos right)
A PDC peek at a Microsoft server container (photos)
Doug Hanchard: FCC releases broadband agenda
- Politician wants Twitter banned from use by….wait for it — politicians!
- FCC to review regulatory and legal impacts to cloud services and identity management
- FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online
- Dignan: FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft still working on an Adobe Lightroom competitor, but with a social twist
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome Frame
Matthew Miller: Hands-on with the HTC HD2, most impressive Windows Mobile device to date
Crave: Livescribe pen gets an app store
UK police make Zeus Trojan arrests
TechCrunch: TweetPhoto CEO Says Too Much In Interview, Gets Fired. And That’s Just The Beginning…
Andrew Nusca: Users should be smug, and why the Apple iPhone makes you feel smarter
- Next-gen Flip mini camcorder to sport Wi-Fi; Cisco influence finally materializes
- Rachel King: More leaks on upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad X100e
- Amazon slashes price of Palm Pre to $79.99, Pixi to $24.99
Chris Jablonski: 7 things you should know about Body Area Networks (BANs)
Tom Foremski: Techmeme’s 6 editors signals potential trouble with Google PageRank
Garett Rogers: Chrome OS will give Microsoft a run for their money
Heather Clancy: Peoplesoft founder pops up at eMeter
Andrew Mager: What’s Happening Twitter? Slight languages changes have meaning
Jason Perlow: Messing around with the DROID camera
Sean Portnoy: Vizio announces Black Friday deals on its LCD HDTVs, Blu-ray player
Andrew Mager: Twitter adds “follow” buttons for your site
Tom Foremski: Rewarding tech that benefits humanity
Brian Sommer: Guerilla Marketing @ Dreamforce
Bloomberg: Facebook Common Stock Valuation Jumps 42% to $9.5 Billion
Kingsley-Hughes: GIMP dropped from default Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx installation
Christopher Dawson: How to add value, not just more tech, with Web 2.0+
Kingsley-Hughes: Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced … but still delayed
- Jason O’Grady: iTablet goes OLED bumped until late 2010
Dan Kusnetzky: Delta Sonic Car Wash systems deploys Vyatta
Rooney: Terracotta buys Quartz
Gizmodo: Is There Any Point to the World’s First Wireless USB Drive?
Sam Diaz: AT&T launches Verizon counter-punch ad, keeps digging that hole
Microsoft designs laptop for developer giveaway
Harry Fuller: Alcohol and fuel cells in our future?
Dana Blankenhorn: MindTouch launches its open source cloud
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Smart Planet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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