News to know: Google-EU; China; Microsoft; Intel; HP; Yahoo-Twitter
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:
Larry Dignan: Google: EU opens investigation with Microsoft prodding
Sam Diaz: China calls Google's claims of a cyber attack "groundless"
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft puts an end to Amazon's "free" Linux usage
Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft patent peace for our time
Tom Foremski: Intel was attacked at the same time as Google but it denies connection
Sam Diaz: Yahoo and Twitter partner to mesh the content from both worlds
Larry Dignan: HP has another round of layoffs underway
Sam Diaz: Tim Cook: Apple is a mobile device company with its DNA in consumer
- Google talks search, mobile and, briefly, China at tech conference
- Yahoo VP offers updates on search, local and more
Matthew Miller: Is Google Earth for Android more than just eye candy?
Andrew Mager: Opera's Molly Holzschlag on HTML5 and the future of web apps
Heather Clancy: Call it the corporate version of the American recovery act: Intel spearheads $3.5B cleantech investment initiative
- Christopher Dawson: Intel corporate investments: ensuring US grads have jobs
Rachel King: Nokia, Symbian still lead smartphone market, Gartner says
Larry DIgnan: Toyota recalls: Is there a patch day for your car in the future?
Andrew Nusca: Review: With killer looks, Motorola Devour aims to please the prosumer
Tom Foremski: Microsoft and Google step up their anti-trust battles
Mary Jo Foley: Live Mesh: It's alive!
Andrew Nusca: Now you can follow ZDNet on Google Buzz
Matthew Miller: Slacker for Android 2.0 brings offline station caching
Doug Hanchard: Report: Merion School Board was proactively spying on students
Ryan Naraine: Adobe plugs critical hole in Download Manager
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: NVIDIA continues to rebrand 2xx-series up to 3xx-series
Andrew Mager:Five metrics your company better be tracking
Matthew Miller: Mobile application store data shows interesting results
Rachel King: Samsung Navibot vacuum will clean up European homes this spring
Jason D. O'Grady: How Apple became your parents (updated)
Matthew Miller: SugarSync adds support for upload by email
Larry Dignan: HP launches Singapore research hub, eyes sustainable data centers
Andrew Mager: Quotes from Gary Vaynerchuk's Keynote at FOWA 2010
- Build once, deploy everywhere: the web is the only platform
- How to think about services for the open web
- 5 interesting points from Facebook's open identity guy
- Why marketing isn't bull
Andrew Nusca: Toshiba unveils Portege M780 tablet, multitouch Satellite Pro U500, T110
Dancho Danchev: 10 things you didn't know about the Koobface gang
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Activision's Guitar Hero 'Patent Pending' ... perhaps not
Dana Gardner: Complex systems engineering helps scale SOA the right way
Andrew Mager: How to take your startup to the next level, with Aaron Patzer of Mint.com
- Twitter's Alex Payne on functional programming languages
- John Resig explains the status and future of jQuery
- 10 golden rules for building successful web apps, from Fred Wilson
Reducing the high cost of low-value applications
Jason Perlow: Adobe, Stop Being a Wussy
Joe McKendrick: Where REST may not always be a good fit
The growing need for a flexible governance and risk management framework
Uncovering hidden mobile costs
Dana Gardner: Survey: IT executives experimenting with mostly 'private' cloud architectures
Mary Jo Foley: Windows Phone 7: What's behind chassis doors 1, 2 and 3?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD ATI Radeon HD 5830 details leaked
Dana Blankenhorn: HIMSS exhibitor bids to buy another
Rachel King: BCC introduces Alex laptop with $15 monthly fee
GE, Jason Wu team up for simple, but stylish line of pocket cameras
Rachel King: Moblic E7 MID spotted at MWC 2010; comes with WiMAX, gaming controls
Sam Diaz: Note to FCC: To drive broadband adoption, change the way it's marketed
Larry Dignan: Survey says: Apple's Mac fleet gaining traction in enterprise
Rachel King: MSi announces all-in-one Wind Top desktop PCs with HD 3D displays
Andrew Nusca: In a bid for SMBs, Lenovo unveils TS200v server
Heather Clancy: UN predicts from bad to worse on e-waste problem
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: NVIDIA gives Fermi GF100 GPUs an official launch date
Heather Clancy: IBM, Ricoh team on print manager that tracks costs AND carbon
Rachel King: Lenovo debuts ThinkPad X201 and W701 series laptops with Core i5, i7
Dan Kusnetzky: Revisiting "Cloud Computing": What is it exactly?
Dennis Howlett: Unit 4 sees return to growth
Larry Dignan: Dell Latitude Z meets Lotus Symphony: What happens when you bring your IT to work?
Rachel King: ViewSonic unveils 13.3" VNB131 ViewBook Pro with unusual battery option