November 25th, 2009
News to know: Thanksgiving tech support; Apple; Silverlight; Facebook; Black Friday
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:
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: “Turkey Day” tech support survival kit
Dion Hinchcliffe: The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?
Jason Perlow on smoking and PC warranties: For The First Time in Ages, I Agree With Apple
Mary Jo Foley: Can (and will) Microsoft keep Silverlight compatible across platforms?
Phil Wainewright: EuroCloud UK and a lesson in SaaS marketing
Larry Dignan: HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral
Microsoft CFO Liddell to leave; Klein named new finance chief
Andrew Nusca: Black Friday ‘09: $59 TomTom GPS, $78 Blu-ray player, $10 Blu-ray discs
Gallery: Top 15 Black Friday tech deals (right)
Facebook creates dual class structure; No plans for IPO yet
Amazon bolsters battery life for Kindle; Adds native PDF reader
Dennis Howlett: SAP Users start to flex their muscles
Bloomberg: News Corp. Joined By Rivals Considering Pulling Their Stories From Google
- New York Observer: Time Inc.’s Squires Assembles Team of Rivals to Harness Digital Media
- Andrew Mager: Parse.ly: better feeds with less garnish
Andrew Nusca: HP debuts iPAQ Glisten, 3G Windows Mobile 6.5 world phone on AT&T
Best Buy adds $197 HP laptop to Black Friday lineup
- Jason O’Grady: 1Password is must-have eshopping nirvana
- Andrew Mager: Video alpha app released on the Palm Pre
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple ads dodge the network coverage issues
Michael Krigsman: The ’social enterprise’ comes of age
Oliver Marks: Is Google the Center of the Universe?
Smart Planet: The right argument on renewables
- Could better family planning help slow the effects of climate change?
- India to spend $900 million on solar power; will it succeed?
Rachel King: Numbers of new Core i7 iMacs are turning up DOA
Elecom’s travel ‘Spoon’ mouse is tiny and pricey
TechRepublic: Cloud computing and the build vs. buy question
Matthew Miller: fring announces free Skype video calling from Symbian smartphones
Review: Who needs a PND when you have CoPilot Live 8 on an HTC HD2?
Image Gallery: CoPilot Live 8 on the HTC HD2Heather Clancy: Schneider Electric is latest to draw link between building and network energy controls
Intel encourages green tech at the university level
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft isn’t the only one developing a hardware-accelerated browser
Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics
Kingsley-Hughes: Law firm interested in hearing from banned Xbox Live gamers
Tom Foremski: A single search index would speed up the entire Internet
PaidContent: Joost Finally Acquired, By Online Ad Network Adconion
Dana Blankenhorn: Chrome OS will rise or fall on the safety dance
Large Hadron Collider sees first collisions
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