News to know: Windows 7; IBM; Sony; Apple
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.
Ed Bott: Measuring Windows 7 performance
Dancho Danchev: Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google
Ryan Naraine: Monster Patch Tuesday on tap: 13 bulletins, 34 vulnerabilities
Mary Jo Foley: Ballmer: Testers didn't ring Vista warning bells; Could the same happen with Windows 7?
- Larry Dignan: The Windows 7 judge and jury: Your mom
- Sam Diaz: Let's get 64-bit sorted out before we think about 128-bit!
- Study: Windows 7 can boot more slowly than Vista
IBM launches 'pureScale': Front runs Oracle's database attack
Michael Krigsman: Workday, SaaS, and failure: 'A matter of trust'
BoomTown: Twitter Talking Separately to Microsoft and Google About Big Data-Mining Deals
- MediaMemo: Twitter Down, Again, Just Like the Old Days
Andrew Mager: Google suggests making Ajax content crawlable
TechRepublic: Tips for support technicians booting Windows on Macs with Boot Camp
John Morris: Can a laptop ever be too thin?
Foley: Microsoft delays Forefront business security client six months
- Microsoft Exchange 2010 is done and released to manufacturing
- Microsoft adds an 'Office Starter' edition to its distribution plans
- New Microsoft social computing lab formed under Ozzie
Jennifer Leggio: Sears Holdings Corporation: A silent giant in social media
WSJ: Barnes & Noble Plans e-Book Reader
Larry Dignan: Barnes & Noble's e-reader triplets and the e-commerce distribution game
Information workers loaded with tech they don't use, need
Jason O'Grady: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.1.2
Brian Sommer: Selling that Technology: Functions, Features & Fools
- Paula Rooney: Compiere launches enterprise ERP version
- Heather Clancy: How much can UPS efficiency save you? Eaton has some answers.
Slate: The FTC's Mad Power Grab
Andrew Nusca: Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 offers up to 4TB of efficiency, simplicity
- Dell Adamo XPS spotted in the wild; 9.99mm thick
- Dell adds silver and Swarovski crystal to Dell Adamo 13
- Fender special edition T-Mobile myTouch 3G brings Strat love to smartphones
- Sony debuts Vaio L touchscreen desktop; starts at $1,300
- Gallery: Sony reveals Vaio CW; family home theater laptop for $799
- Sony reveals 14" Vaio CW; 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo, Nvidia graphics, Blu-ray, starts $799
- Sony debuts Vaio X; 'world's lightest laptop': 11.1", 14-hour battery
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: It's time to bring the EULA madness to an end!
Sam Diaz: CTIA: Qualcomm, AT&T execs reflect on Mobile's past, future
- Larry Dignan: Apple leads smartphone customer satisfaction
- Digits: IPhone Tethering Still Unavailable, AT&T Says
Smart Planet: Inventors create ‘radiant fryer’ oven; healthier fried foods without oil
Steve Jobs tops list of most influential people in tech
Jason O'Grady: Verizon ad trashes AT&T's 3G coverage
Garett Rogers: OH Canada! You've finally got Street View
Comcast to send infected-PC alerts
Engine Yard raises $19 million in VC funding
AdAge: Google Lures Local Advertisers by Subverting Its Own Search Policies
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: LG Bluetooth car visor, Klipsch speakers, MoviePix camcorder
How much is too much for an iPod speaker dock?
Dana Blankenhorn: Flu shot controversy illustrates compliance problem