News to know: Google vs. Apple; Firefox; Amazon
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:
Epicenter: Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Mantra is ‘Bulls**t,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple's Steve Jobs (Updated)
Sam Diaz: Microsoft's cloud is hiccuping. Has anyone even noticed?
Matthew Miller: Firefox Mobile version 1.0 now available for the Nokia N900
Tom Foremski: DRMStore wars highlight drawbacks of dedicated e-readers
Garett Rogers: Google dangles the Chrome carrot
Dana Gardner: Time to give server virtualization's twin, storage virtualization, a top place at IT efficiency table
Security skills provide top draw across still challenging U.S. IT jobs landscape
- Apple and Oracle on way to do what IBM and Microsoft could not: Dominate entire markets
- Joe McKendrick: Why service orienting is hard to do
Jennifer Leggio: Modern communities - no longer exclusive clubs
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Core i7 Alienware M15x and M17x available for order
Still using Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC)? Read this!
NYT: Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism
Kingsley-Hughes: iPad: Q&A
- Apple A4 is not a CPU, it's a 'system-on-a-chip'
- Andrew Nusca: Is the Apple iPad worth its sticker price?
- Tom Foremski: Apple's unhackable system...
- Joel Evans: Will the iPad soon have a different name?
- Infoworld: Citrix will have an iPad app to run Windows 7 sessions
Christopher Dawson: Constellation program cut: space race no more
Jason Perlow: Obama: The Nuclear President?
Rachel King: Amazon insists that 'millions' of people out there have Kindles
- Larry Dignan: Apple's iPad vs. Amazon's Kindle: It's not zero sum
- NYT: Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement
Miller: What was up with the T-Mobile data outage for Google Nexus One owners?
Jason Perlow: Frugal Friday: Apple iPad and Sun/Oracle Wrap-Up
Heather Clancy: Companies road-test greenhouse gas emissions measurement framework
Andrew Nusca: Dell Adamo premium ultraportable drops to $999
Friday Fun: Needy tech support, bad customer service, hellish printers
Dana Blankenhorn: Google and open source, who needs who more?
Joel Evans: 43 seconds with the Android-powered Dell Mini 5
Larry Dignan: Post mortem: Our site fail Wednesday and what went wrong
Michael Krigsman: 'Pain chains' and the IT Devil's Triangle
Paul Greenberg: Facebook - #FAIL in Customer Service - Bad Process, BAD Process
Sean Portnoy: Target Super Bowl HDTV deals include 42-inch 1080p LCD for $499
- Walmart rolls out its Super Bowl HDTV deals on Sony, Vizio LCDs
- Best Buy's Magnolia Home Theater Super Bowl HDTV deals: Don't believe the hype
Doug Hanchard: Internet attack defense: License and registration please...
Harry Fuller: Tesla Stepping Out
Paul Murphy: ZFS/Flash and the climate debacle