News to know: Apple, VMWare, Earth Day, Kaiser, MySpace
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Sam Diaz: Apple beats for Q2; Best non-holiday quarter; Netbook hardware 'junky'
- Jason D. O'Grady: Apple's Q209 earnings. Recession? What recession? (Updated)
- Apple's one billionth app due tomorrow at 1:24pm PT
Larry Dignan: VMware's first quarter better than expected
- Dan Kusnetzky: VMware Launches vSphere
- James Staten: VMware wants to be your network operating system of choice
Harry Fuller: Earth Day: the most crucial issue
- Google Earth...Day: the image
- Jennifer Bergen: Earth Day tech deals: Gentle on the planet and your wallet
Dana Blankenhorn: Kaiser pats itself on the back for Health IT platform
Sam Diaz: MySpace co-founder agrees to step down as CEO
Larry Dignan: eBay: Operating smarter?
Andrew Nusca: Sun CEO's full e-mail to staff; 'not the end of the road'
Sam Diaz: Cisco's Chambers says security can no longer be an after-thought
Andrew Nusca: Twitter alters follow rules; stuns developers
Christopher Dawson: How do we prepare kids for Obama's "Green Jobs"?
Jason D. O'Grady:Apple disses netbooks, again
Sam Diaz: Report: Fraud and deception at Satyam was deep
Richard Koman: Analyst: Breach revelations part of campaign for new funds, powers
ZDNet UK: Linux leader: Oracle-Sun good news for Linux
Jason D. O'Grady: The biggest market for the iTablet: healthcare
RIchard Koman: Congress eyes LimeWire over inadvertant P2P breaches
Dana Blankenhorn: How would you change HIPAA data protection rule
Jason D. O'Grady: 'Minor' MacBook and Mac Pro updates on tap for WWDC
Zack Whittaker: Google offer scholarship for disabled students
Jason D. O'Grady: Enabling half-star ratings in iTunes
Matthew Miller: Should the US government impose wireless fee limits like the EU?
Jennifer Bergen: Amazon Kindle 2: The real cost behind the machine
Harry Fuller: Pols fighting over greenhouse gas, emit hot air
Paula Rooney: Open source NFS client on tap for Windows?
Chris Jablonski: Distance Lab seeking couples to test drive 'intimacy' device
Jennifer Leggio: 140-character assassination: Are disclaimers and disclosures needed, or even possible, on Twitter?
Andrew Nusca: Chemical mind hacking: legit, or corporate cheating?
Dana Blankenhorn: Are any open source projects too big to lose
Mary Jo Foley: What is Microsoft Advertising (with a capital 'A')?
Heather Clancy: UPDATED: HolidayLEDs celebrates Christmas on Earth Day
Larry Dignan: RSA: Will there be a digital Pearl Harbor?
Dana Blankenhorn: Apache releases new version of OFBiz
Heather Clancy: Research: Thumbs-up for IT's attention to energy efficiency, thumbs-down for lifecycle management
Matthew Miller: The iPhone is clearly the king of 3rd party apps
Dana Blankenhorn: Red Hat maps dispel some open source myths
Heather Clancy: Toshiba offers some Earth Day incentives to spur online notebook purchases
ZDNet UK: Botnet contains 1.9 million infected computers
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Shock horror! Amazon makes profit on Kindle 2 sales!
Zack Whittaker: Microsoft promotes social responsibility
Larry Dignan: Yahoo analysts play deal or no deal on Microsoft search pact
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Do you spend money on expensive cables?
Larry Dignan: AT&T: First quarter earnings shine; 1.6 million iPhones activated
Andrew Nusca: MSI introduces Macbook Air killer, X-Slim 340
CNET: Cryptography experts debate cloud-computing risks
Larry Dignan: Microsoft exec outlines Windows 7 security
Tom Foremski: A conversation with Trend Micro's Eva Chen
Andrew Nusca: Acer launches smartphones in Asia; wants to be Top 5 by 2012
Dan Kusnetzky: Preventing the old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick
Larry Dignan: Under the Radar: Judging cloud storage startups
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Seagate debuts low-power Barracuda LP 3.5" hard drives
Larry Dignan: Flash memory shocker: Sandisk says prices, demand increasing
Andrew Mager: Would you give up pay or benefits for someone's job?
Christopher Dawson: Even with adult content regulated, Second Life is dead in ed
Dancho Danchev: New ransomware locks PCs, demands premium SMS for removal
Richard Koman: General: NSA doesn't want to control cybersecurity
Ryan Naraine: Mozilla patches a dozen Firefox vulnerabilities
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Samsung 52-inch HDTV, Sony portable DVD player, Dell Vostro A90 netbook
ZDNet UK: Bluetooth 3.0 released - 8X faster
Ed Burnette: Firefox 3.0.9 fixes 67 bugs, 23 critical
Dana Gardner: Progress gives CEP a performance boost with multi-core support on Apama