News to know: Windows 7. iPhone in China, CircuitCity.com, Java, Google books, Apple history
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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: Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month
- Mary jo Foley: Windows 7: The incentives are coming
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: With Win 7 GA date set, when's the best time to buy a new PC?
Larry Dignan: Reports: iPhone to launch in China in July
- Jennifer Bergen: New iPhone rumors mapped out
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Larry Dignan: Ellison and McNealy: Java here to stay
Richard Koman: Google drops the other shoe, plans to sell online books
Michael Krigsman: IBM: IT failure and social media disaster
Richard Koman: Are tech companies agreeing not to steal top execs?
Dana Blankenhorn: Sorry Linux but the chicken came first
Dennis Howlett: TIBCO Silver: RAD and governance for enterprise clouds
Dennis Howlett: Sustainable change or SOX 2.0?
Heather Clancy: Sentilla adds support for additional tracking, monitoring devices
Sam Diaz: Apple's early days: Documents on display
Sam Diaz: Google Chrome for Mac: Still not ready
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New dual, triple and quad core CPUs from AMD
- Sean Portnoy: AMD announces ATI Theater HD 750 "HDTV on a chip"
John Morris: Intel finally announces ULV, drops the "C"
Jason Perlow: Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac
Chris Jablonski: Agriculture ripe for change with robot farmhands
Sam Diaz: Businesses gain access to Google data through Local Business Center
Larry Dignan: Intuit picks up PayCycle for $170 million
Paula Rooney: Red Hat's Fedora 11 to offer interop with Microsoft Exchange
Dancho Danchev: Email service provider: 'Hack into our CEO's email, win $10k'
Sam Diaz: Twitter needs young users and regular tweeters to grow past niche
- Andrew Mager: Twitter's next question: Where are you?
Mitch Ratcliffe: Google begins its rumble with Amazon
Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.5 RC1 delayed a bit again
Harry Fuller: Oil-staters win hybrid competition!
Heather Clancy: Dell one-ups rivals with latest renewable energy claim
Harry Fuller: Bright idea needs money
Heather Clancy: HP releases new eco-reporting tools, goals for imaging products
Mary Jo Foley: Why Windows 7's netbook success isn't a slam-dunk
Dana Gardner: Mainframes provide fast-track access to private cloud benefits for enterprises, process ecosystems
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft makes Bing search available for mobile devices
Andrew Nusca: Toshiba debuts its first netbook, the mini NB205
Andrew Nusca: Acer to sell Android netbooks in Q3 2009; will they be cheaper?
Denise Howell: Microsoft's Bing playing fast and loose with fair use?
Larry Dignan: Can ERP vendors save the world?
Joe McKendrick: Five reasons why people mistrust SOA
Zack Whittaker: Recession, depression, and a graduate job market drought
Andrew Nusca: SanDisk next-gen SSDs are faster, target netbooks and Linux
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile G1 has a much better QWERTY keyboard than the Palm Pre
Andrew Nusca: Acer Aspire Timeline: A thin-and-light notebook with 8 hour battery, gestures for $598
Larry Dignan: CA picks up Cassatt assets; Bolsters cloud portfolio
Dana Gardner: LongJump eyes fully portable, best-of-breed PaaS holy grail for ISVs going to the 'open' cloud
Larry Dignan: Dell retires Mini 9 netbook
Larry Dignan: Can we detect earthquakes before they strike?
Rachel King: iPhone 3.0: Camera features rumor round-up
Jason D. O'Grady: Woz revises his "most astounding" Bing review
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Flip Ultra camcorder, Slacker portable Internet radio, Sharp AQUOS HDTV
Heather Clancy: Verari blades now handle six-core AMD Opteron processor
Larry Dignan: E-reader devices: The fun is just starting
Jason Hiner: Palm Pre: Five reasons to expect a homerun
Larry Dignan: Should we share our Wi-Fi in the name of cloud?