News to know: Facebookgate, XP, iPhone credit, greentech in 2009
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Larry Dignan: 'Facebookgate': Fake Class of 2013 groups today; Annoying marketing tomorrow?
Mary-Jo Foley: Microsoft to allow custom PC makers to stock XP through mid-2009
Jason D. O'Grady: AT&T lowering credit standards to move iPhones?
- David Morgenstern: Chanukah comes to the iPhone, Touch with iMenorah
Harry Fuller: Next year: science and greentech in Washington D.C.
Photo Gallery: NASA looks back on 2008
Garett Rogers: Google kicks off countdown to Christmas
David Morgenstern: Changing the (bad) behavior of your MacBook's keyboard backlight
Brian Sommer: Spammers – Best wishes for 2009!
Heather Clancy: Product lifecycle management could get boost from green manufacturing initiatives
Ed Bott: Which sites will make the IE8 Compatibility Hall of Shame?
Matthew Miller: SeeqPod Mobile brings an attractive streaming music service to Windows Mobile
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Abit to close at the end of the year?
Roland Piquepaille: Inside an active volcano on Montserrat
Heather Clancy: EPEAT, EcoLogo join forces on green stamps of approval
Matthew Miller: Review: Samsung Behold and Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5 on T-Mobile
Joe Brockmeier: Companies drive open source success?
Garett Rogers: Google Apps adds shared contacts and a new contact manager
Heather Clancy: LED leader Cree goes after office, institutional settings with larger fixture
Roland Piquepaille: New tape to protect buildings from explosions
Sean Portnoy: Parrot hatches Philippe Starck-designed Wi-Fi speakers with Bluetooth, iPod dock
Joe Brockmeier: No such thing as a free Linux distro
Zack Whittaker: Windows 7 7004; compatibility worries; performance beats Vista
Sean Portnoy: Intel to showcase Widget Channel Internet TV platform at CES
Paul Murphy: Postdictions for 2008
Jason D. O'Grady: The App Store is not a free market
Heather Clancy: Get-cher green gadgets here: New universal power adapter, spec for low-power remote controls
Brian Sommer: Satyam – Time for a real (early) Spring Cleaning
Sam Diaz: YouTube overtakes Yahoo, Microsoft in U.S. search
Harry Fuller: I won't have to blog about the Detroit automakers again until next year
Andrew Nusca: Unconfirmed: T-Mobile G2 due Jan. 26, 2009
Phil Wainewright: SaaS delivers return *before* investment
Churchill Club podcast: Around the world in 140 characters: Twitter, the Web, and survival
Sam Diaz: It's OK to be mad at Apple but give Schiller some respect
Joe McKendrick: Five fearless predictions for SOA 2009
Andrew Nusca: The Toybox in 2008: A retrospective
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: The Internet On Trial
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts finishing touches on updated unified-communications platform
Joe McKendrick: SOA for the greatest logistical night of all
Jennifer Leggio: NFL uses Reality Digital to turn fans into video producers
Joe McKendrick: A modest proposal for an IT bailout
Sam Diaz: RIAA drops mass lawsuits, recruits ISPs to crack the whip
- Richard Koman: RIAA to drop mass lawsuits against filesharers
Mary Jo Foley: Could Seadragon, Zune VideoX be among 'premium' Win Mobile services?
Dana Blankenhorn: The Microsoft secret and open source
Larry Dignan: Palm CEO: It's not too late for us; Is it a dead company walking?
Ed Bott: That Windows 7 bootleg is a ticking time bomb
Andrew Nusca: BREAKING: Internet broken, North America-Asia cables damaged
Roland Piquepaille: How many atoms to build a computer?
Andrew Nusca: Dell's 'leather-wrapped' Studio XPS 13, more Adamo info leaked
VIDEO: CEO predicts future uses for Twitter
Dana Blankenhorn: Obama skepticism was 10th most read post of 2008
Michael Krigsman: UK Transportation Department IT failure: 'Stupendous incompetence'
Andrew Nusca: Samsung to launch next Android phone in Q2 2009
Jason D. O'Grady: Apple sued over Apple TV, Airport Express and Mac
Larry Dignan: Oracle puts Salesforce.com in its sights
Dan Kusnetzky: What to do when a business hotel doesn't have a WiFi network?
Podcast: MIT CFO Symposium: Dealing with the unexpected
Dan Kusnetzky: Oriel Specialist Mathematics and Computing College - a SoftXpand user profile