Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
PDC coverage:
- Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 pre-beta build: What’s inside
- Jason Hiner: Windows 7: Five things Microsoft must do
- Microsoft: Expect Vista SP2 in the first half of 2009
- Microsoft launches a development-tool-focused incubator
- Phil Wainewright: Gathering clouds brew up a storm
Paula Rooney: Ubuntu 8.10 desktop, server to ship Oct 30
News.com: Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone
Tim O’Reilly: Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Nick Carr: What Tim O’Reilly gets wrong about the cloud
Garett Rogers: Google readying SearchWiki?
Oliver Marks: A Transparency Engine for the WorldWide Web
Ed Bott: OS X versus Vista, RAM division
Reviews of the Samsung Epix (AT&T right)
Crackberry.com: BlackBerry Storm Hands-On First Impressions!
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long until Apple is bigger than Microsoft?
- AMD Announces $150 Radeon HD 4830
- Cringely’s right, Windows Mobile is dead
- Intel: We love you, iPhone!
- The idea of “Open Source DRM” makes me want to vomit with rage
- Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate is out
Deb Perelman: No rest for the weary techie
- Michael Krigsman: Managing recession: IT failures and layoffs
- Larry Dignan: Tech’s economy careens into the great unknown
- NYT: To Survive, Net Start-Ups Slow Their Metabolism
Roland Piquepaille: Improving chip density by a factor of 100
- Jambot, a musician robot that improvises
- Zack Whittaker: The technologies which will change our lives
TechCrunch: YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos
Dana Blankenhorn: On the Linux laptop the distro is key
NYT: If No One Sees It, Is It an Invention?Adam O’Donnell: “Joe the Plumber”’s data compromised by government insider
- Paul Murphy: Associative arrays and elections data
Symantec to identify safe software by ‘reputation’
Review: iHome iHM77 portable multimedia speakers (red right)
Dana Gardner: Web 2.0 acts as accelerant in pending corporate Darwinian shake-out, says Palladium Group CEO
Heather Clancy: Could being sustainable save the world AND the economy? New book makes convincing case.
Jennifer Leggio: Diary of a Web nerd: The Wii as a social platform
EIC podcast: Tech demand murky
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Take Stock. Turn Off The Tech. Turn Off Th
e Echo Chamber. Think.
Andrew Nusca: Weekend Gadget Guidance: $50 off Amazon Kindle thru Nov. 1
- Dell readies ‘Mini’ Vostro netbook for small business
- Janice Chen: The best way to download photos from your digital camera to computer
Dignan: Stand-alone Yahoo Messenger for Vista: R.I.P.
Matthew Miller: HTC Touch Pro from Sprint available next week
Ryan Stewart: New York Times rolling out HD video content with Brightcove
