News to know: MS Office; Fake H1N1; AT&T; Dell; Nokia
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Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's latest promotion: Buy Office 2007 now; get Office 2010 for free
- Microsoft: No Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 until SP3
- Microsoft demonstrates more Bing 2.0 features and shares new user stats
- Microsoft sells off part of its FAST enterprise-search acquisition
Ryan Naraine: Fake H1N1 (Swine Flu) alerts lead to malware
Sam Diaz: AT&T drops Verizon 3G lawsuit but bad publicity lives on
Andrew Nusca: Dell updates thermal algorithms in response to CPU throttling concerns
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Dell releases BIOS updates to fix underperforming/overthrottling notebooks
Nokia makes big bet on 2010: Symbian UI milestones, Maemo 6 computer coming
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Matthew Miller: HP iPAQ Glisten brings an OLED display to a forward QWERTY device
Sam Diaz: Supernova: Can Social Media be the "savior" of privacy?
- Denise Howell: Muddling through privacy and the social Web
- Larry Dignan: Pondering a rogue cloud; Will platform providers cave to business, government interests?
Tech Trader Daily: Apple: Will iPhone Force Carriers To Adopt Metered Data Pricing?
TechRepublic: 10 Linux features Windows should have by default
Heather Clancy: What, two "greenest" data centers in the same week?
- NEC goes LED
Yahoo: Update once to share with many on Yahoo! and Facebook
Doug Hanchard: War goes mainstream on the Internet, Facebook and Twitter
Dana Gardner: BriefingsDirect analysts unpack the psychology of project management via 'Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0' and SOA
- Upside case study report shows connections between BPM and security best practices
- Forrester: Remote access and virtualization: Not one and the same
- Michael Krigsman: Complexity vs. goodness in IT failure
- Joe McKendrick: Harvard study: for healthcare, IT doesn't seem to matter
Matthew Miller: Intel Atom Developer's Program beta SDK now available
- Kingsley-Hughes: New Intel SSD firmware - Trim support without the bugs
- Patch time for FreeBSD users as Zero-Day exploit is published
Dana Blankenhorn: 11 open source business models
Boy Genius Report: Motorola Sholes Tablet gets pictured
Andrew Nusca: 2011 Audi A8 adds handwriting recognition to in-car UI
Podcast: Windows 7 early returns
Smart Planet: The Sustainability Journey: Life in the Yoga House
Jennifer Leggio: New privacy, shmivacy - Facebook photo tagging still a big fail
MIchael Krigsman: IT Failures blog recognition
Christopher Dawson: Admin fired for incompetence, not alien search
Ed Bott: What the "Black screen of death" story says about tech journalism
AppleInsider: Apple tablet rumored to be ‘shockingly’ inexpensive
Steve Case: Time Warner-AOL deal still makes sense (on the white board)
Bloomberg: GameStop Falls Most in S&P 500 After Walmart Cuts Game Prices
Larry Dignan: Zoho integrates Google Docs: A nice strategy
That giant sucking sound: Sun's server share continues to deteriorate
Google: Search and gated content happy publishers aren't zero sum
- Nusca: On publishing, paywalls and the information fabric of the Web
- Garrett Rogers: Google takes a deep look at itself in 2009
Sean Portnoy: Wal-Mart extends Cyber Monday deals on 1080p HDTVs
Are manufacturers shifting resources away from GPS navigation devices?
5 security threats to watch in 2010
Dan Kusnetzky: Responding to "Getting started with Virtualization"
Dana Blankenhorn: A modest proposal to transform health care
Oliver Marks: Flip Video WiFi TV Hookup & FlipShare 5.0 Software
Rachel King: FlipShare TV service launches Flip videos to your TV
Acer announces first Google Chrome OS netbook
Diaz: Can a black eye from Consumer Reports harm AT&T, iPhone?