News to know: Amazon; Yahoo-Microsoft; Wireless carrier exclusivity; YouTube; Oracle; HP-IBRIX
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Sam Diaz: Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles
- Dana Blankenhorn: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books
- Jason Perlow: JEFF BEZOS IS WATCHING YOU
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Amazon shows us why DRM is a bad idea
Mary Jo Foley: Yahoo and Microsoft: If at first you don't succeed...
- Larry Dignan: Bing! Yahoo-Microsoft ad deal close (yet again)
Sam Diaz: Verizon changes tune on handset exclusivity. Will AT&T follow? Will it even matter?
Larry Dignan: Google moves to show YouTube has 'a very credible business model'
Dennis Howlett: Oracle cranks up some prices 40%
Larry Dignan: The storage consolidation continues: HP acquires IBRIX
- Andrew Reichman: HP acquires cluster file storage software vendor IBRIX
Jennifer Leggio: The psychology of social media: Can a visible brand ruin your life?
- Larry Dignan: Social media: Pondering the corporate ROI
Jason D. O'Grady: The proper way to set up MobileMe on an iPhone
Sean Portnoy: Hell freezing over? Toshiba set to release a Blu-ray player this year
Robin Harris: Elvis, your e-passport is ready!
Matthew Miller: Geek.com podcast 19, back to chat with Joel about mobile gadgets
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple/Microsoft sued over iPod/Zune controls
Andrew Nusca: Amazon to replace cracked Kindle e-readers free; drops $200 charge
Janice Chen: How to get high-end "Steadicam" shots from your low-end camcorder, on the cheap
Jason Perlow: Frugal Friday: Hewlett-Packard Tech Support, Amazon as "Big Brother", Apollo 11 40th Anniversary, Scientific Linux
Paul Murphy: Managing IT in desperate times
Harry Fuller: Solar cycles, weather and climate
Jason Perlow: To the Moon: Grumman, One Giant Landing for Mankind
Dana Blankenhorn: Flu turns dangerous
Harry Fuller: How much alcohol is too much? Feds to decide.
Christopher Dawson: A success story out of Florida
Garett Rogers: Could new Google Docs be interface for GDrive?
Andrew Nusca: Is Dell's overseas Inspiron 13 an answer to Apple's MacBook Pro?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to change default browser setting option in IE 8
Chris Jablonski: Printable batteries
CNET: Cisco cuts another 600-plus jobs
Sam Diaz: Friday distraction: Let's hear your review of "IT Chicks"
Andrew Nusca: Corsair debuts Extreme Series X32, X64, X128 SSDs
- Averatec debuts 22-in. D1005 all-in-one PC; $799
- Bose introduces SoundLink wireless bookshelf speaker; $549
- Andrew Nusca: 10.1" Samsung N310 Go netbook offers Atom N270, chiclet keyboard; $479
Dana Blankenhorn: Deadlines absent in final meaningful use definition
Harry Fuller: Brrrrm! Brrrrm! Brammo makes a little noise.
Heather Clancy: What will that green project cost you? GlassHouse service calculates the environmental tab.
Richard Koman:On CNN.com's Blogger Bunch
CNET: Microsoft sues to catch alleged IM spammers, phishers
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: iHome iPhone and iPod speakerphone, MoGo Bluetooth mouse, TomTom GPS, Sony BRAVIA HDTV
Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7, netbook support in the works for Windows Home Server
Adrian KIngsley-Hughes: Is Windows 7 E just a gimmick?
Joe McKendrick: SOA's squishy paybacks revisited
Dana Blankenhorn: What open source government data gets you
Larry Dignan: The decade's biggest tech flops: Funny how Sony and Microsoft dominate
Dana Gardner: HP wraps up virtual event series with sessions on IT challenges and solutions
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases Dryad concurrent-programming code to academics
Dana Gardner: Cloud governance: something old, something new, something borrowed...
Michael Krigsman: Friday madness: $23 quadrillion software glitch
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: What do you want from your next computer?
CNET: Bill Gates - the science guy
Sean Portnoy: Belkin cancels FlyWire wireless HD solution while Atlona releases new wireless USB to HDMI adapter
Larry Dignan: How does a solar cell work?
Dan Kusnetzky:Novell PlateSpin Migrate really moves Solaris workloads