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- News to know: Swine flu; Microsoft; Windows 7; iPhone and Verizon
- 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. Andrew Nusca: Swine Flu: Where to find virus, track outbreak, learn symptoms, more Harry Fuller: Swine flu and the enviornment? Mary Jo...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Verizon sending stay-with-us "inducment letters" to defecting voice customers
- A Fierce VoIP reader provides the site with a copy of an "inducement letter" Verizon is sending customers who want to leave their phone services for the inducements of cable-delivered VoIP and other grener pastures. The site points out these letters are being...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Customer, Fierce VoIP Reader, Federal Government, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Government, Personal Technology, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- News to know: Microsoft's Hyper-V and reorg; NetSuite; Cisco patches; MacBook Air diary
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Review: Microsoft’s Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice Dana Gardner: Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center Dan Kusnetzky: Why is the concept of virtual machine software so sticky? Former Microsoft...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., NetSuite Inc., Apple MacBook, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Social Networking, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Comcast fesses to FCC: yeah we have right to, and we do, mess with some P2P packets
- In a filing with the FCC yesterday, Comcast admits it messes with certain "P2P protocols." Plain English: When Comcast subscribers are exchanging large files- Comcast sees these as poential factors in slowing down its network, and reserves the right to employ digital chicanery to interrrupt these sessions....
- Tags: FCC, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Network Management, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- News to know: Vista SP1 hacks and 551 bugs; Apple patch; RIM outage
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Vista SP1 rolls up 551 bug fixes. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: More information on the Vista SP1 activation hack. Gallery right. George Ou: Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' hole RIM notifies of 'critical' BlackBerry outage. Russell...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Outage, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- News to know: Microsoft and open source; Google; Motorola, PMA 2008
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words Dana Blankenhorn: Should we fight the proprietary open source power? Larry Dignan: Google's quarter falls short of expectations Tom Foremski: GOOG's troubled social network deals threaten Facebook valuation....
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Open Source, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Twitter, Motorola Inc., BlackBerry Patent App, Manufacturing, Handhelds, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- News to know: Gmail sidejackings; PMA, Demo coverage; Desktop as data center
- Notable headlines: George Ou: Even SSL Gmail can get sidejacked Robin Harris: The data center on your desktop Janice Chen@PMA: Live from Las Vegas: Sony announces two more DSLRs under $900 David Morgenstern: Is Apple under attack from...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Desktop, Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Data Center, Video, Net2Phone Inc., HyperOffice, Data Centers, Corporate Communications, E-mail, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), TVs, Telecom & Utilities, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- This developer I've been corresponding with could be weeks away from a truly killer app for cellphones
- Several weeks ago, I blogged about what I consider to be a thus-far unbuilt killer app for mobile phones: shopping mall maps small, yet clear enough for cellphones. My point was that everyone brings a cell to the mall, and in-mall "you are here" store maps are...
- Tags: Developer, Phone, Map, Mobile, Cell Phone, Mall, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Comcast on Digital Voice: "we're now number 4 telco, and we ain't VoIP"
- Here at CES, Comcast is proudly heralding their new ranking as the fourth-largest residential phone service provider in the U.S. At one time they were the sixth largest, behind, Verizon, AT&T, Qwest, Sprint-spinoff Embarq,and Vonage. But now, they've passed Embarq. They passed Vonage about sixth months ago. ...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Voice, Vonage Holdings Corp., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Secure ripping from "episodic DVDs" described in just-published Microsoft patent app
- A major new Microsoft Patent application entitled DVD identification and managed copy authorization describes and illustrates a secure manner in which DVDs could be enabled for "ripping" of selected sections of media. In other words, and as Paragraph 44 of this app...
- Tags: Consumer, Multimedia, Authorization, Activation, Content Provider, Client, Information, Microsoft Corp., Copy, Copy Service, Identification Response, FIG, Authorization Service, Method 1000, Method 1100, Method 1200, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- News to know: OLPC lessons; 2008 in preview; Blu-ray on new MacBook Pro?
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Lessons Learned: Two weeks with the XO laptop. Gallery: The unboxing. Researcher: Sears' use of ComScore software falls short on privacy Robin Harris: Blu-ray option on new MacBook Pro Happy 2008: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple MacBook, Blu-ray, One Laptop Per Child Project, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- News to know: Red Hat's new CEO; RIM; FTC on privacy; Best PC components
- Notable headlines: Red Hat names new Whitehurst CEO; Szulik stays chairman. A message from Matthew. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Dec 07/Jan 08. Without competition from AMD, Intel starts to put the brakes on releases Podcast: A look back at 2007 ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Red Hat Inc., PC, Privacy, RIM BlackBerry, DoubleClick Inc., FTC, Mergers & Acquisitions, Handhelds, Investment, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- News to know: QuickTime Band-Aids; Opera; Hyper-V; AMD; iPhone@Work
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple slaps more bandaids on QuickTime David Berlind: Google/OpenSocial's director of engineering David Glazer unplugged: 'Shindig is live' Christopher Dawson: Another cheap mini-portable...competition rocks Larry Dignan: Opera files complaint against Microsoft in the EU...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple QuickTime, Beta, BlackBerry Patent App, Google Inc., Hardware, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Operating Systems, Software, Virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Here are 13 tips for using your BlackBerry's camera
-  Are you using, or plan to use, the camera in your BlackBerry Curve or Pearl? If so, you might want to check out Cellphone camera tips and techniques, a piece by Boston Globe travel writer not tech writer John Tlumacki. Although most of...
- Tags: Lens, BlackBerry Pearl, RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Camera, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- How much of your gear will you take along vs. leave behind over Thanksgiving?
- When traveling to the homes of our elders (parents, relations, in-laws, significant other's parents) many of we gadget geeks face a judgment call. How much of our gear do we take along with us? And if we decide to take along everything from our Skype WiFi phone...
- Tags: Phone, Camera, Wireless LANs, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-21
- $200 Linux PC selling out is another reason Wal-Mart is good for America
- Our own Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes about the new, Everex’s TC2502 gPC- a $200 Linux-based PC now temporarily out of stock at Wal-Mart. A full 10,000 units were sold. The Everex does the basics-word processing, spreadsheet, email, edit your photos and pictures, even burn...
- Tags: Health Insurance, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Retail Company, Health Care, Linux PC, Wal*Mart, Retail, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Linux, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- News to know: Apple shines; Adobe flaw; Enterprise 2.0; The innovation game
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Developers in dark about Leopard GM bug fixes. Larry Dignan: Apple handily tops expectations. Apple: Back to the Mac and the future. Techmeme. Jason O'Grady: AppTapp updated to v.3; works with iPhone 1.1.1. Ryan Naraine: Adobe...
- Tags: Game, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Phone, Comcast Corp., Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Trolltech, Flaw, Linux, Virtualization, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Revealed: Comcast Digital Voice's policy for customer records requests from law enforcement
- An internal Comcast document entitled Comcast's Handbook for Law Enforcement reveals the manner in which the cable and broadband giant keeps phone records of its Comcast Digital Voice customers. Not only does a look at this document reveal those matters, but it also...
- Tags: Phone, Comcast Corp., Voice, NeuStar Inc., Handbook, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Vonage: "we'll appeal"
- No surprise there. Vonage is not one to roll over, even when Patent infringement decisions go against them as it did today. Here's the statement just posted by Vonage: Vonage announced that it will seek to overturn today's U.S. District Court jury verdict...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Sprint Communications, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
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