News to know: Intel's server chips; Microsoft Mix; National broadband plan
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What's on tap for Tuesday, March 16, 2010:
Also at Mix, Microsoft will detail more nuggets about IE 9. In the meantime, it's working around the latest IE zero day.
The National Broadband Plan is unveiled today. Sam Diaz had the details of the executive summary and hopes for perpetual beta. Let's hope there's something to fix the coming wireless spectrum crunch. Google CEO Eric Schmidt cheered the plan.
Tim Bray joins Google. So it's your first day on Google's Android team. What do you do? You write a blog post noting your move and kicking Apple's iPhone in the teeth. Don't try this at your job, kids.
Cybercriminals are working hard to come up with new ways to make money. Dancho Danchev looks at what's happening with Mac OS X SMS ransomware and asks the question: is it hype or a real threat?