News to know: Devil Mountain; Vudu; China hackers; Apple-Nokia; Amazon
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:
Jason Perlow: Some Clarity about the Devil Mountain Software Clarity Suite
Sam Diaz: Wal-Mart buys Vudu, jumps into streaming movies. (Porn, too?)
Larry Dignan: Google hackers loosely tied to Chinese government?
Doug Hanchard: FCC: Broadband Recommendations, Education E-Rate Programs and Future of Media Presentation
Sam Diaz: FTC finds sensitive data on P2P networks, issues warning
- Christopher Dawson: FTC tags schools among data breaches from P2P file sharing
Larry Dignan: Smartphone wars: Apple fires back at Nokia; Court skirmishes heat up
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple cleans up App Store, goes PG-13
Mary Jo Foley: Amazon becomes the latest company using Linux to pay Microsoft for patent deal
Zack Whittaker: Governments spy, corporations spy, even schools spy
Joel Evans: What ELSE do we need in a mobile phone user interface?
Tom Foremski: Single women and Silicon Valley's drive to innovate...
Joe McKendrick: Seven reasons SOA is a liberating force
Janice Chen: Samsung announces S90 competitor, high-speed compact, and two rugged point-and-shoots
Paula Rooney: Torvalds vents about religious extremism
Mary Jo Foley: Seven's not always Microsoft's lucky number: Dynamics NAV 7 ERP delayed
Rachel King: Android-based Acer Liquid e smartphone headed to Rogers this spring
Larry Dignan:Macmillan's DynamicBooks demo: Textbooks to the 'Wii era'?
- Christopher Dawson: Did Macmillan finally get e-textbooks right?
CNET Photo Gallery: Timing of the games: then and now
Rachel King: MSi debuts 16" GE600 gaming laptop with 500GB hard drive, ATI Radeon graphics card
Tom Foremski: Technology helped BMW Oracle win back the America's Cup
Jason D. O'Grady: The iPad's impact on App Store approvals
Larry Dignan: Iron Mountain buys Mimosa Systems
Rachel King: Habey debuts BIS-6620 mini PC with Intel Atom Z510; starts at $299
- SanDisk unleashes 64GB Ultra SDXC memory card; priced at $349.99
- Liquavista intros color e-paper prototype; developer kit available soon
Sean Portnoy: Intel will sell as many boxed Pentium CPUs as Core-based processors in Q1 2010
Michael Krigsman: Social networking: Influence, followers, and 'nexus leaders'
All your power needs in a box? A Bloom box
Mary Jo Foley: New Microsoft codenames galore added to February CodeTracker
Rachel King: Microsoft developing charging pad with OLED screen and Wi-Fi?
Dana Blankenhorn: Health costs up because everyone wants to play House
Heather Clancy: Survey: Utilities believe nuclear, wind have most potential to serve environmental needs
Robin Harris: Why RAID 6 stops working in 2019
Rachel King: Pentax releasing limited edition K-7 Silver DSLR with minor upgrades
Dana Blankenhorn: One small win for a man, one giant win for open source
Dion Hinchcliffe: Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch
- Joe McKendrick: Enterprise architecture, in a tweet
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470/GTX 480 make a early retail appearance
Dennis Howlett: Software buyers must preserve 3PM rights
Heather Clancy: Distributed computing works, why not distributed energy?
Dana Blankenhorn: Risks in Google killing Adobe Flash
Dan Kusnetzky: Star Wind Software claims "Zero to SAN in 30 Minutes"
Paul Miller: Putting the Semantic Web to work in e-Commerce with GoodRelations