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News to know: Next-gen Windows; Oracle patches; Facebook feeding frenzy

Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Next-gen Windows: Most wanted features emerge. Larry Dignan: Next-gen Windows features and the fallout.Ed Bott: Hardware notebook: What I look for in a Vista PC.Web leaders: Search is just the beginning.Ryan Naraine: Oracle readying 46 security patches for DB, server products.Review: Logitech MX Air. Photos: A...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-07-13

Podcast: News to know midday: Oracle 11g day; Microsoft needs to change; Patch fiesta

On today's podcast: It's Oracle 11g launch day. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer seems antsy about reinventing the company. A lot of patch fun coming your way.

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Podcast: News to know midday: Life without Google; Oracle's shopping list; securing Firefox

On today's podcast: The Life without Google experiment continues with ChaCha. Gallery. What's on Oracle's shopping list. And how do you secure Firefox?

Tags: General, Google, News to know, Oracle, Security

Blog posts 2007-07-10

News to know: Oracle shopping list; Securing Firefox; Linux staffing

Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Who's on Oracle's shopping list? Ryan Naraine: Securing Firefox: How to avoid hacker attacks on Mozilla’s browser. Gallery right. Securing IE and Safari galleries.Samba will move to GPLv3.Google addresses Google Apps security with Postini buy. Podcast: Google & Postini execs discuss specifics of Google's Postini acquisition. Techmeme...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-07-10

News to know: SAP responds to Oracle suit; Outlook archive; Twinhead Durabook

Notable headlines:Dan Farber: SAP acknowledges inappropriate downloads by TomorrowNow in response to Oracle suit.David Berlind: Is it time for the battery life equivalent of a 'nutrition label?'Robin Harris: Outlook's risky archives - and how to fix them.Review right: Twinhead Durabook D13RY.Microsoft document formats gain Mass. favor. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-07-03

Podcast: News to know midday: Life without Google; SAP vs. Oracle; USB flash drive torture test

On today's podcast: Why I'm trying to live without Google and day 1 of my experiment. Nucleus Research report isn't complimentary to SAP ROI in the SMB market. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes abuses a flash drive--and the flash drive comes out in tact.

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-06-06

Additional Resources

News to know: MSFT-News Corp.; YouTube; Chrome OS; California HDTV; Oracle-Sun

A deal between Microsoft and News Corp., more about Chrome OS and new HDTV energy requirements in California are among the top headlines. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Oracle Corp., Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., YouTube Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-23

FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual

Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...

Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

News to know: RSA, AMD; Yahoo; Windows 8; $200 'Mac'

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. RSA Conference: Tom Foremski: A conversation with Check Point's Gil Schwed Symantec CEO: The future of security [video] RSA chief calls for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, RSA Security Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated

News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-28

News to know Monday

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic' WSJ: New Rejection from Yahoo Sets The Stage for Ugly Fight Dana Blankenhorn: We don't want you to talk, Mr. Ballmer Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, sdiaz

Blog posts 2008-07-14

News to know: Globalization, randomness, iPhone, robots and more...

Notable headlines: The subprime mortgage meltdown has triggered a global investment tsunami, with foreign governments and equity firms rushing to bail out U.S. financial institutions. Singapore-based Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd. acquired $4.4 billion in Merrill Lynch stock and took an option to buy an additional $600...

Tags: U.S., Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Robot, Technology, IBM Corp., Government, Globalization, Robots, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Investment, Strategy, Management, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-26

ZDNet 2007: What the tag cloud tells us

Our engineering team put ZDNet blogs through a cloud tag blender to render a weighted list of top topics for 2008. In an age when the consumer and enterprise worlds are colliding but no exploding, Google, iPhone, Apple and Microsoft captured the big buzz of the year in our blogs....

Tags: Web, Network, Enterprise Software, Blog, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Blogging, Virtualization, Social Networking, Internet, Marketing, Hardware, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-18

News to know: IE's future; QuickTime patch; Digg; 2.5 TB storage

Notable headlines:HP touts new mold for the chip industry. George Ou: Setting up the 2.5 TB hot-swap array. Robin Harris: How to REALLY erase a hard drive. Vonage requests retrial in Verizon patent dispute.Mary Jo Foley: Whats next for Internet Explorer? Microsoft opens up a little. Jasper: Dynamic languages meet...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-02

News to know: Oracle vs. SAP; YouTube battle; Crowdsourcing

Notable headlines:Motion-sensing comes to mobile phones. Gallery right.Larry Dignan: Oracle sues SAP; alleges ‘corporate theft on a grand scale." Full complaint. Joshua Greenbaum: The Lawsuit As Barometer: SAP Finally Scores Big with TomorrowNow.NBC, News Corp. push new Web rival to YouTube. NewTube: Will video content really be king? MSN Soapbox:...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), YouTube Inc., crowdsourcing, SAP AG, Microsoft Windows Vista, Oracle Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-23

Report: Dell faces lawsuit over alleged Intel pact

Report: Dell faces lawsuit over alleged Intel pactThat would explain a lotI have always wondered why, year after year, Dell would give out vague, obscure, nonsensical and evasive reasons why they never used AMD chips. It's true that AMD had certain business weaknesses, but that excuse became less and...

Tags: Business structures, Operational accounting, AMD stock, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-02-02

News to know: Vista questions; Scoble's bad week; LinkedIn spam

Notable headlines:Net pioneer predicts overwhelming botnet surge.Adobe: Make room for Photoshop Lightroom.GM: ‘Stand by. We’re about to spam you.’Will Oracle launch Unbreakable MySQL?News Corp. shuns Fox Interactive in ROO deal.Will new architecture association help drive SOA skillsets?Big software firms take aim at Web 2.0.Vista launches:Vista: Where are the killer apps?Vista...

Tags: General, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2007-01-30

Software pricing will never be the same

The wizards of stock picks and the mainstream press pundits have it wrong as to why a number of software trends are hot while the vendor's stocks are not. In this Business Week article, reacting to some picks for software stock winners and losers, the writer claims that...

Tags: software, stock, pricing, Oracle Corp.

Blog posts 2006-01-06

Oracle looking to Linux

Oracle looking to LinuxNot SurprisingWe ran oracle enterprise on Sun servers and they worked flawlessly, never had to be rebooted, never had a crash.We ran Oracle on a Windows 2000 box and had to constantly stop/restart services, reboot the box and troubleshoot.Glad we moved to Sun. Yes, it's not...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Oracle-on-Linux, Linux, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2005-08-09

Microsoft unpacks details of Longhorn storage

Microsoft unpacks details of Longhorn storageMicrosoft Attempts for decade,GNOME Does in months1994 Cairo Takes OLE to New LevelsThe next version of Windows NT, code-named Cairo and targeted for release sometime in 1995, will be built around the concepts of objects and component software. It will have a native OFS (Object...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, storage, Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2003-10-14