Between the Lines

Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

News to know: Windows rot; Touch PCs; Palm Pre sales guesses; Apple

By | January 13, 2009, 2:00am PST

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows bit-rot - fact or fiction?

Jason O’Grady: Has Apple gotten lazy?

Mary Jo Foley: Maybe we’ll see Win 7 and Office 14 launch together, after all

Zack Whittaker: Touch: the most evil technology in modern computing

Gallery: Getting to know the Nyko Kama Charge Kit (right)

PaidContent: Newsgator Secures $10M Sixth Round Funding; $39M Raised To Date  ReadWriteWeb: R.I.P. Enterprise RSS

Larry Dignan: Palm Pre sales guesstimate: 1.5 million

Phil Wainewright: Hooray, 2009 starts with a SaaS backlash

Tom Foremski: Intel wants WiMAX to lead Obama’s tech initiativesMichael Krigsman: Former Ace Hardware CIO on IT failure [podcast]

Brian Sommer: SAP & Oracle - Settling or Nettling?

Dana Blankenhorn: Kentucky tries to lead health IT train

PaidContent: Major Shake-up At Sling Media: Krikorian Brothers, Hirschhorn, White, Wilkes Leaving

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The cause behind the Zune’s “New Year’s Eve” mass suicide

Heather Clancy: Lenovo, Toshiba earn props in second annual Greenpeace green tech surveySANS Institute: CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

Ed Burnette: Browsing Android Source in Eclipse

Deb Perelman: Will it be impossible to change jobs this year?

Fortune: Nokia’s North America problem

Andrew Nusca: HTC to launch touchscreen iPhone, Palm Pre competitor. Smarthouse: EXCLUSIVE: HTC To Launch New Touch Phone Says Telstra

Nine Web sites IT pros should master in 2009

Ryan Stewart: Brightcove adds some new leadership talent

Harry Fuller: LOHAFEX: trying to iron out the climate problem

ReadWriteWeb: YouTube.gov: U.S. Congress Comes to YouTube

Richard Koman: NSA initiative pinpoints 25 Top coding errors

Jason O’Grady: Griffin Clarifi nails it

INQ Mobile boasts a handset made for social networks (right)Intel unveils tablet Classmate PC design

New Microsoft ads: ‘It’s Everybody’s Business’

Is OpenOffice.org a ‘dying horse’?

Adobe takes LiveCycle developer tools to Amazon Web Services

Seagate names Luczo CEO; Watkins out

Signs of Armageddon: We’re worrying about CO2 emissions of a Google search

Harry Fuller: GM makes headlines if not profits

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Larry Dignan

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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