News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone
- Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open Screen Project
- Google: Teaming up with Adobe and the Open Screen Project
- Adobe: RIM joins Open Screen Project
Robin Harris: DRAM error rates: nightmare on DIMM street
Phil Wainewright: The as-a-service business model
Matthew Miller: AT&T announces first WM 6.5 devices, the HTC Pure and HTC Tilt 2
Jason Perlow: openSUSE 11.2 M8: What a Fine Lookin' Lizard
- Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast Marsupial
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First Look: Ubuntu 9.10 beta "Karmic Koala"
- Gallery:
Oliver Marks: Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager
Sam Diaz: P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education
Jason O'Grady: Dear Palm: Make you own sync software
PA Semi ARM chip bound for Apple tablet
Larry Dignan: IBM targets Google Apps for business, undercuts pricing and touts reliability
- Mary Jo Foley: Comparing oranges to oranges: Microsoft's hosted collaboration suites vs. IBM's LotusLive iNotes
- Forrester: Assessing the maturity of cloud computing services
- Michael Krigsman: Various Google sites are down
Apple Insider: Apple ads hint at thinner iMacs, lighter MacBooks, cheaper Mac minis [u]
Heather Clancy: Gartner research suggests data center energy metrics still mystery to many businesses
Smart Planet: Irony: Poor governance holds back e-government
Sean Portnoy: Consumers only want 3D HDTVs, Blu-ray players if they don't cost extra
Zack Whittaker: Mozilla UX chief: What's next for Mozilla, Firefox and the Web
Foley: Microsoft System Center team primes the beta pump
Garett Rogers: Gmail adds favicons to "enhanced" messages
Digital Daily: Palm Ignores USB Group's Warning, Restores iTunes Sync
NYT: Will Books Be Napsterized?
Dave Greenfield: LifeSize PassPort: The First Skype-Compatible Telepresence System
Tom Foremski: When web services go bad: Ticketmaster's outrageous tax on culture - it harms society
James Farrar: Intel to Ireland: Vote Yes to Europe or else......?
Phil Wainewright: Blind to the elephant in the cloud
Harry Fuller: Why on ZDnet?
Andrew Mager: Trendsmap: Real time local Twitter trends
Michael Krigsman: Scholarly interest in IT failure and waste
Paul Murphy: Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"
Matthew Miller: BlackBerry Desktop for Mac now available with iTunes sync capability
- MobileTechRoundup show #138, Holding out for a Hero
- Exchange on Sprint HTC Hero is good, but nothing beats Windows Mobile
Diaz: SIA: Global chip sales showing sequential growth, hints of recovery
Intuit and Mint promise "no changes"; but maybe a few would be OK
Andrew Nusca: U.S. DOE, EPA, IT pros: $1.1 billion could be saved with green, efficient data centers
TechCrunch: How Microsoft Will Lift Us Out Of the IT-Spending Dumps
Heather Clancy: Is greenhouse gas reporting about to become the next SOX-like IT problem?
Joe McKendrick: How to speak the CIO's language
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Apple iPod 30GB, 3M micro projector, MartinLogan Helos in-wall speakers
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source and forced obsolescence
Andrew Mager: DMCA takedown forces Google to remove links to Pirate Bay
Will Apple ever make a good mouse?
- Jason O'Grady: Apple's tablet UI patent unearthed
- Sam Diaz: Analyst: non-exclusive iPhone could dominate world
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Amazon clears up Kindle content deletion policy
Vista/IE market share slide, Win 7/Firefox/Chrome surge
Richard Koman: Israeli firm claims patent on URL shortcuts
Foremski: Fewer links mean challenges for Google...
TD Bank botches IT system consolidation; Customer havoc ensues
Christopher Dawson: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009
Harry Fuller: Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun
- Cellulosic ethanol, corn, etc.
- Soak the rich? Ban the Beamer?
- Big carbon emitters fighting two wars simultaneously in America
Dana Blankenhorn: Should shrinks be allowed to prescribe leeches?