News to know: Social networks; RealDVD; HTC-Apple; IBM; Cisco
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:
Jennifer Leggio: Social network security: Where is the outrage?
- Dennis Howlett: SocialText 4 focuses on richer microblogging
- Doug Hanchard: Social media privacy: Insurance companies want access to your Facebook
- Mary Jo Foley: Could (and should) Microsoft buy Twitter?
Sam Diaz: RealNetworks kills RealDVD to settle Hollywood lawsuits
Ed Bott: Confessions of a Windows 7 pirate
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Why Linux still 'sucks'
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Larry Dignan: HTC responds to Apple; What's the long-term hit?
- Matthew Miller: Apple's lawsuit against HTC may have soured my iPad purchase decision
- Jason Perlow: Google, Just Say No to iPhone
- How much will Apple's suit against HTC affect Android's momentum? [podcast]
- Garett Rogers: Is Apple out of good ideas?
- Dignan: Dell: Appeal of vertically integrated IT stack vastly overblown
- Microsoft: Enterprise interested in Windows 7 upgrades, but timing uncertain
- Heather Clancy: Equinix gets LEED nod for environmental credentials at Silicon Valley data center retrofit
- Dell updates OptiPlex green credentials
- Joe McKendrick: Are big software glitches inevitable? And who gets blamed?
- RSA: Cryptographers discuss wisdom of 'foolishness'
- Paul Greenberg: SAP - The Message Back on Target
- The digital media war: As Apple and Google battle, users win
- Tom Foremski: The emerging "Heinz 57" new media business model...
- Netflix might be coming to the iPhone
- ASUS slips in O!Play HD2 media player at CeBIT 2010
- Corsair's new 128GB Flash Voyager GTR wins USB 2.0 speed tests
- TiVo announces Premiere, Premiere XL with redesigned Flash interface
- Nokia 5230 Nuron debuts on T-Mobile 3G
- AT&T CEO says iPad will mostly be used on Wi-Fi, not 3G
Andrew Nusca: IBM creates optical device to enhance inter-processor connections
CNet News: Google mulls blend of education, search
Sam Diaz: Cisco: Networking still strong, helping to grow new markets
Melanie Kaplan: Microsoft's Toulouse: Why I suspended an Xbox Live user for reciting the Declaration of Independence
Robin Harris: Clearing the fog from cloud
Sam Diaz: Yahoo's Bartz: Good content, strong analytics can drive innovative advertising models
GigaOm: UPDATED: Twitter Staffer Stops Blogging After Backlash
Ars Technica: Ubuntu dumps the brown, introduces new theme and branding
Jason Hiner: Verizon confirms 4G plans: 25-30 markets in 2010, speeds 5x faster than 3G
Smartphones: So advanced yet so hampered by ancient business models
Christopher Dawson: The Neo PC - big joke or great little tool?
Dana Blankenhorn: Blumenthal gets hero's welcome at HIMSS
GE Qualibria brings decision support to patient bedside
WebMonkey: Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 With Internet Explorer 9
Rachel King: Nikon developing a direct competitor for Canon PowerShot G11
Kingsley-Hughes: No Microsoft, an 'Net tax' won't stop botnets
Zack Whittaker: Pay as you go computing: A viable way forward?
Dave Greenfield: Backflip, Devour, or Cliq: Which Mobile Collaboration Device Should You Choose?
Dave Greenfield: Top 5 BlackBerry Apps for Business
Foley: Microsoft OneAlbum: Find your photos in friends' albums
Doug Hanchard: FAA puts two air traffic control employees on admin leave after teen directs aircraft over JFK