October 10th, 2008
News to know: Apple’s $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:
Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed
Ed Bott: Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic (hint: it’s not home users)
Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now
Robert Scoble and sexy enterprise software
Mary Jo Foley: How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple’s $800 notebook - Winners and losers
- Apple notebook for $800 - Would you be interested?
- Apple makes it official. Notebook announcement next week
- Jason D. O’Grady: New MacBooks and MacBook Pros: $800 and Mini-DVI
- The five products Apple must make
- Apple set to release $800 notebook
Sam Diaz: Economy-pinched semiconductor industry: How to ride the storm
Andrew Mager: Uncov is back, and you can write for it
Dell speeds backup with disk-to-disk system
H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Labs launches politically focused social-media site
John Morris: Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
Churchill Club podcast: Irrational decisions and the rational people who make them
The Apple II is baaaaccckk (via emulator) 
Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator
Two things money can’t buy: love and SOA
John Carroll: Anonymity and the Internet
Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?
Dana Blankenhorn: How closely to regulate consumer medical tests?
Tom Foremski: IBM considering financing IT project partners because of banking crisis
Andrew Nusca: Is Microsoft’s fatal flaw the computer?
Brian Sommer: Tempest or Nuclear Winter
Garett Rogers: Google PPOB? What is it?
Ryan Naraine: Opera bitten by ‘extremely severe’ browser bug
Heather Clancy: Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
Larry Dignan: Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures
Dancho Danchev: Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malware
Buy an ASUS Eee Box mini PC, get free malware!
- Andrew Nusca: Asustek to offer touch-panel Eee PCs?
Paul Miller: An interview with David Provost
Dana Blankenhorn: Making money on open source
Start-up looks to extend battery life
Roland Piquepaille: Inside an early star-forming galaxy
Scientists make ultrathin superconducting films
Michael Krigsman: London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices
Amazon cuts S3 pricing; Dangles carrot in front of enterprises
Dan Kusnetzky: Desktone “Desktops as a Service”
Paul Murphy: Plagiarism, gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook business
Richard Koman: Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- Kernell’s prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computer
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
Matthew Miller: Can the Motorola Q11 compete in today’s market without a 3G radio?
Christopher Dawson: Where are all the programmers?
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