• News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy

  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. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take ...

  Tags: Patent, Leave, Photograph, Hardware, Apple iPhone, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Vulnerability, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

  Jan 15, 2009 2:00 AM PST

• Minimizing after sales disasters

  When your customer wants to be assured that a T5440 can be configured as 256 virtual machines and run at better than 98.5% utilization, you know he's beyond the reach ...

  Tags: Sales, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Paul Murphy, Software, Sales Force Management, UNIX, Customer

  Jan 15, 2009 12:15 AM PST

• Steve Jobs: Call it a day.

  I heard of today's broadcast email by Steve Jobs via a BlackBerry news alert while I was on vacation in Orlando this week. Frankly, I was one of the many ...

  Tags: Management, Human Resources, Jason Perlow, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Leadership, Benefits, Litigation, Business Operations

  Jan 14, 2009 10:05 PM PST

• Jobs' health, Google cuts, PC sales: Be careful of seeing too much in coincidence

  I have nothing to add to the discussion of Steve Jobs. Will come back? Won't he come back? I only wish Steve and his family the best. The thing we, ...

  Tags: PC, Sales, Health Care, Sales Strategy, Online-ad Sales Growth, Sales Force Management, Job, Google Inc., Mitch Ratcliffe

  Jan 14, 2009 9:57 PM PST

• Google rips off the band-aid, bad news all around

  Google dropped a whole bunch of "bad news" on us today -- it reminds me of when you have to make that hard decision to either rip out one hair ...

  Tags: Garett Rogers, Google Inc.

  Jan 14, 2009 7:51 PM PST

• Google cripples Google Apps Standard and pushes Premier

  Google is now giving anyone with the expertise, and desire, to resell Google Apps Premier Edition GAPE. This is a significant departure from Google's past sales tactics, and it will ...

  Tags: Reseller, Sales, Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Garett Rogers, Google Apps, Google Inc.

  Jan 14, 2009 7:27 PM PST

• R.I.P., 'V.O.I.P.' Long live packet-based telephony.

  Not much more than a decade ago, the idea that a packet-routing company could compete effectively in the circuit-switched world of telecommunications was oft the font of laughter. For the ...

  Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Telecommunications, Cisco Systems Inc., Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Telephony

  Jan 14, 2009 6:23 PM PST

• Psystar offers another (weak) argument in Apple suit

  The arguments get weaker and weaker every time Psystar tries to justify installing Mac OS X on non-Apple computers. And seeing how the courts keep kicking Psystar to the curb ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Psystar, Operating Systems, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Software

  Jan 14, 2009 5:45 PM PST

• CES 2009: Photos of Internet TV widgets from the show floor

  I have a lot still to digest and post from last week's CES. For starters, here are some photos I took of Internet-enabled TV widgets while I was on the ...

  Tags: TV, Sean Portnoy, Internet TV, Photograph, Consumer Electronics Show

  Jan 14, 2009 5:12 PM PST

• Beware of Satyam ambulance-chasers

  I've been inundated with questions from Satyam's competitors who have all been eagerly circling the beleaguered service provider's clients over the past week. by Phil Fersht

  Tags: Service Provider, Phil Fersht, Satyam, Business Services

  Jan 14, 2009 5:12 PM PST

• No more free Sprout Builder

  Marshall has the news up that Sprout Builder will no longer be offering free accounts. Sprout Builder is one of my favorite applications on the net and I always thought ...

  Tags: Sprout Builder, Ryan Stewart, Tool, Productivity, Marshall, Ecosystem

  Jan 14, 2009 4:53 PM PST

• Google lays off recruiters

  Google confirmed that it has been cutting contractors and now it's paring back its army of recruiters. In a blog post, Google said it "is still hiring at a reduced ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan, Recruiting, Google Inc., Recruitment & Selection

  Jan 14, 2009 4:42 PM PST

• Motorola's mobile unit gets slammed in another round of cuts, layoffs

  Motorola announced an additional 4,000 layoffs today - on top of the 3,000 announced last month - with the troubled mobile division taking the biggest hit with 3,000 positions eliminated. ...

  Tags: Layoff, Advertising & Promotion, Handset, Handset Business, Marketing, Sam Diaz, Motorola Inc., Mobile

  Jan 14, 2009 3:29 PM PST

• So far, SOA failures are few and far between, survey says

  What is the cost of SOA failure? Survey says more than 100 staff hours, and several months of regrouping by Joe McKendrick

  Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Survey, Joe McKendrick, Software, SOA, Enterprise Software

  Jan 14, 2009 3:05 PM PST

• Will govt throw bucks at health IT without understanding the goals?

  Neuberg says Congress should be careful not to throw money at health records IT before it understands where we're trying to go. by Richard Koman

  Tags: Vertical Industries, Asset, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Human Resources, Healthcare, Health Care

  Jan 14, 2009 2:51 PM PST

• David Allen explains how to Make It All Work

  David Allen, author of Getting Things Done and Ready For Anything, energized the employees at CBS Interactive today at a BNET Speaker Series. His new book, Making It All Work, ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Andrew Mager, David Allen, Games, Mind, Productivity

  Jan 14, 2009 2:36 PM PST

• Amazon wants to put govt. in the cloud

  Amazon is targeting state and federal government as a major new client for its cloud services. TechFlash found this job posting on Amazon's site: Would you like to be part ...

  Tags: Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman, Amazon.com Inc.

  Jan 14, 2009 2:28 PM PST

• Steve Jobs takes "medical leave of absence"

  Steve Jobs takes a "medical leave of absence" from his position as CEO of Apple until June. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Vertical Industries, Workforce Management, Leave, Stock, Steve Jobs, Absence, Enterprise Software, Investment, Human Resources, Finance

  Jan 14, 2009 2:25 PM PST

• IBM is tops in patents

  IBM is No. 1. The No. 1, patent holder, that is. And for the 16th year in a row. In a press release, IBM announced it had been awarded 4,186 ...

  Tags: Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Richard Koman, IBM Corp.

  Jan 14, 2009 2:20 PM PST

• BREAKING: Jobs takes medical leave from Apple

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave from the company until the end of June, telling employees in an e-mail that his health issues are more complex than ...

  Tags: Vertical Industries, Leave, Steve Jobs, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Andrew Nusca, Healthcare, Health Care, Online Communications, Apple Inc.

  Jan 14, 2009 2:02 PM PST

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