Phone maker publicly says ‘No’ to WP7; Watchdog warns about Schmidt policing privacy

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	Phone maker publicly says 'No' to WP7 Robert Mullins: China's ZTE sees no reason to make a phone running Microsoft Windows Phone 7. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More In this Issue Watchdog warns Obama about Schmidt policing privacy Windows Phone 7 practically useless without Windows Live The problem with (salary) numbers Microsoft and Google collaborate to bring HTML5 video to IE9 How DHS is Monitoring Keywords and Social Media Add-on lets IE6 apps live forever No more Zune hardware devices, Microsoft (sort of) confirms Visit Microsoft Subnet for more daily news, blogs WHITE PAPER: Siemens Finding the Value in Unified Communications This paper examines the four stages of return companies can see from their UC investments: Lower communications costs are followed by lower operational costs, then better productivity, and finally a true competitive advantage. Read More Watchdog warns Obama about Schmidt policing privacy Ms. Smith: Will Eric Schmidt go from being Google CEO to being Obama's voice on privacy as the next Commerce Secretary? Privacy watchdogs oppose the idea. Read More Windows Phone 7 practically useless without Windows Live Robert Mullins: I am demoing an HTC Arrive from Sprint and discovered that Microsoft really, really wants you to sign up for Windows Live – to the point where a Windows Phone 7 smartphone is practically a brick without it. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC IDC: New Strategies Driving Disk-Based Solutions In this brief, IDC discusses the challenges of using tape and the benefits of disk-based data protection solutions with data deduplication, especially if a business is experiencing unabated data growth, a lack of recovery performance, and increased costs associated with physical tape. Read the brief. Read now The problem with (salary) numbers Sean McCown: It may look good on paper to fire your most experienced (expensive) people, but deep down you know it won't really save you money. Read More Microsoft and Google collaborate to bring HTML5 video to IE9 Jon Brodkin: Not long ago, Microsoft and Google were trading insults over HTML5 video. Now they say they will collaborate to bring WebM to Internet Explorer 9. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Technology Fueling the Next Phase of Storage Optimization ESG examines trends influencing the adoption of deduplication and the limitations of existing solutions and details how HP is best positioned to deliver highly efficient deduplication solutions based on its new HP StoreOnce deplication technology Read now How DHS is Monitoring Keywords and Social Media Ms. Smith: DHS updated its privacy policy due to the personally identifiable information that can be collected. The list of keywords and sites monitored by NOC and DHS was not mentioned, but here is the previous list of terms and sites. Read More Add-on lets IE6 apps live forever Robert Mullins: Browsium replicates IE6 engine to run apps in IE8/9 Read More No more Zune hardware devices, Microsoft (sort of) confirms Jon Brodkin: Microsoft re-focuses Zune strategy on software:"The Zune is finally dead," various media outlets are reporting. Read More Visit Microsoft Subnet for more daily news, blogs This newsletter features blogs from the Microsoft Subnet community. We've got a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people up for grabs, too. Follow us on Twitter @microsoftsubnet. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5. MOST-READ STORIES AT&T's $39 billion T-Mobile buyout raises questions Phone maker publicly says 'No' to WP7 Did hackers nab RSA SecurID's secret sauce? Cisco sets the bar for mobile security The RSA hack FAQ Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream' AT&T's takeover of T-Mobile creates largest U.S. carrier Four steps to take if you depend on RSA SecurID tokens RSA's SecurID breach: What should you do? On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all
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