News to know: Apple; Google; Office 2010; 3D monitors
News to know: Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates are BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage:
Garett Rogers: How would no iPhone exclusivity affect Android?
- Sam Diaz: Apple Tablet: Mind share over market share
- Ed Burnette: Live coverage of Apple Tablet event
- Jason O'Grady: Apple tablet rumored to come to Verizon (and AT&T)
- Apple Insider: Inside the multitouch FingerWorks tech in Apple's tablet
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Office 2010 system requirements: Changes in disk space, GPU recommendations
- Microsoft: Developing Windows Phone apps and games on the Mix 2010 agenda
- Microsoft shakes up its Entertainment and Devices unit
- Microsoft schedules Zune services downtime for maintenance, nothing more
- TechCrunch: Jason Calacanis Punches Comscore In The Face. Comscore Punches Back. Fred Wilson Drags Us Into It. $SCOR
- No class action status for WGA lawsuit
- Software bug in NVIDIA 196.21 WHQL drivers disables overclocking
- Firefox 3.6 - The review
- Expect Microsoft attack on open source citadel, says Allison
- Grassley wants to be the customer's man in health IT
- Valdes and Astronaut putting VA VistA in the cloud
Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)
John Morris: More laptops and monitors adding stereoscopic 3D
Andrew Nusca: To heck with Segway: NASA personal flying suit goes 149 mph on 60 HP
Christopher Dawson: Can Calibre overcome basic e-reader limitations for schools?
Larry Dignan: Will you buy your Oracle software from Charles Phillips?
Ryan Naraine: RealPlayer haunted by 11 critical vulnerabilities
Tor Project suffers hack attack
Jason Calacanis: Why We Should Boycott ComScore (and *perhaps* why traders should short their stock)
Andrew Mager: Facebook's Lite isn't just faster; it's the new Facebook design
Andrew Nusca: 'Mr. Ballmer, would you sign my Mac?'
Ed Bott: Will switching from Internet Explorer make you safer?
Rachel King: Windows 7 worldwide market share jumps past Mac OS X, growing faster than Vista
The White House unveils an iPhone, iPod Touch application
Zack Whittaker: Searching for the weak link in university network security
Sean Portnoy: Super Bowl HDTV sales kick off: Fumbles or touchdowns?
Smart Planet: At UC Davis, intelligent lighting of the future
CNN: U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Motorola asks regulator to ban Blackberry imports
Heather Clancy: Nexsan revs green dedupe product line
Based near Seattle? You could snag yourself a free green IT audit
WSJ: The Minds Behind the Meltdown
Joel Evans: The Kindle will finally become more than an ebook reader
TechRepublic: 10 must-have Android apps
Images of a 9-year-old IT administrator (photos right)
Dana Gardner: The Christmas Day bomber, Moore's Law, and IT's biggest challenge
Dennis Howlett: SAP: Voice of the Customer
Tom Foremski: Silicon Valley jets for Haiti...
There's a huge hole in the NYTimes' paywall
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source can win the Kindle-Apple tablet wars
AMD: Positive signs emerge, but Intel and Nvidia loom large
Janice Chen: Panasonic confirms pricing on new Lumix cameras as low as $109.95
Paul Murphy: Nothing but olive twigs: a solid week of good news!