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- Twitter and web forgery
- Last evening as I was winding down after a long journey imagine my surprise when I started to receive a tsunami of @ replies on my Twitter account. Apparently I was direct messaging a stack of people I don't know with a link to something that...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN
- 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: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson
- 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: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure
- The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Social book reading in the digital age
- * Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Andy Santamaria I know what you're thinking. You read the title of this post and thought, "Books have always been social, we share them with friends, form book clubs, and bend at Oprah's...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Blu-ray Players/Home Theater Systems
- With prices for both players and discs plunging, this may be the holiday season for Blu-ray. Already online movie streaming is making inroadseven on Blu-ray players themselves. Some of these picks are integrating on-demand video services into their feature sets, hoping to keep themselves relevant in...
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- Business Week: 1.4 million Google Voice users, global push in the works
- In documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, Google said it had more than 1.4 million Google Voice users - with some 570,000 using the service seven days a week - and hinted that it has plans to expand the service, or possibly elements of it, beyond the U.S. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Want a cleantech grant? Here's a place to search
- Law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and green research and events company Cleantech Group have assembled an online database with info about state and federal government green funding options. by Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror
- After last week's announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their 'Social Business Software 4' yesterday at their San Francisco 'Jiveworld' event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- How to find a quality film scanner
- While most photographers (at least, avid amateurs) have made the jump to digital photography these days, many of us still have boxes of film negatives lying around. And with older formats, having them scanned and printed at photo shops can be quite expensive, especially if you have a lot of...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- E-book reader news and releases round-up
- The last two weeks have been especially busy for the e-book reader industry and probably pretty frightening for Amazon. Here's a quick round-up of what's been released and what we have to look forward to this holiday season: 1. Barnes & Noble Nook:...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- SAP Q3: sales down, profit up
- SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS
- 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.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon
- 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.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted
- I’ve been thinking about Net Neutrality for some time and wanted to get your thoughts and feedback on a solution that seems, well, so simple and obvious that I can't believe nobody has proposed it. A bit of background before you dive-in. Before analyzing and tracking...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Verizon preps fourth quarter device barrage; Droid will 'stimulate demand'
- Verizon delivered a solid third quarter courtesy of its wireless business, which added 1.2 million net customers excluding acquisitions. The company also said it is set up for the fourth quarter with the launch of Research in Motion's Storm 2 on Wednesday, two Motorola Android devices and 12 other handsets....
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google
- 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. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Google's Schmidt: Washington politics "not very interesting"
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in Washington this week as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, popped into The Washington Post to chat with reporters and editors about a number of topics, including an FCC vote on net neutrality. Google's name has...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Frugal Friday: Mac refresh, Magic Mouse, Verizon DROID, The Nook, Windows 7, Likewise
- Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the 4th quarter 2009/Q1 2010 Apple hardware refresh, the new Apple Magic Mouse, the quaintness of keyboards, the new Verizon DROID smartphone, the Barnes & Noble "Nook" Android-based ebook reader, the Windows 7 launch and Windows XP migration solutions,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- The maintenance renewal landscape
- A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
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