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Sam Diaz: Google goes after Windows with launch of Chrome OS
- Matthew Miller: Google Chrome OS announced, It should just work
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's Azure interoperability pieces start to fall into place
Jason Perlow: Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?
Foley: What is Microsoft's Web platform (and what's Chris Wilson's part in it)?
- New July update of Microsoft codename tracker ready for download
- Life beyond Windows 7: Microsoft updates other products
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 "Family Pack" ... Fact or fiction?
Sam Diaz: Gmail loses beta label; Google "removes doubt" that Apps are enterprise ready
- Google: Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)
- Google Enterprise Blog: Paving the road to Apps adoption in large enterprises
- Brian Sommer: It's official: SaaS is now mainstream
- Larry Dignan: Survey: IT leaders looking to squeeze vendors; Is best of breed back?
- Oliver Marks: Enterprise 2.0 ROI Metrics: One Size Doesn't Fit All
- Joe McKendrick: Webcast: SOAs, WOAs, and the clouds they create
- Services that scale: the 'intercloud' emerges
Matthew Miller: Apple celebrates App Store birthday on 11 July, 56,000+ apps in 1 year
Larry Dignan: If everyone bets on Android does anyone get an advantage?
Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID
Michael Jackson funeral delivers pop in video streams
TechCrunch: Pandora (And Other Internet Radio) Has Officially Been Saved
- Rachel King: Poll: What are the most important camera accessories?
- Five easy, basic steps to editing on Photoshop
Kingsley-Hughes: Stay with my Nokia E71 or move on ... ?
TechRepublic: A computer geek's guide to building a 64-bit server on a budget
Dana Blankenhorn: Will Microsoft promise split the open source movement
Jennifer Leggio: Is Twitter making us all self-centered?
- Are Steve Jobs' management skills a corporate risk?
- Magellan Maestro 4700 GPS sports 4.7-in. display, voice command, highway lane assist; $299
- Is this the next LG Chocolate? (Yes.)
- Sony to release 10.1" Vaio W netbook in August; $499
- Facebook no longer smells like teen spirit; students down 20%, 55+ up 514%
- Harry Fuller: Nuclear recycling--a thing of the past?
- Can we engineer insect-free crops?
- CNet News: Microsoft opens Hohm to energy monitoring
- Mary Jo Foley: Report: Microsoft trying to settle EC antitrust matters
Sam Diaz: Is Amazon really thinking of placing ads in Kindle e-books?
Christopher Dawson: Required summer reading: Neuromancer turns 25
Starcraft II jettisons LAN support
Dana Blankenhorn: Limits urged on genetic testing
Larry Dignan: The one risk that bit Goldman Sachs: The internal data theft
Zack Whittaker: Web 2.5: Is it time we elected an Internet government?
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Sennheiser headphones and earbuds, Garmin nuvi GPS, Toshiba Satellite notebook
PaidContent: IAC's Match Agrees To Buy People Media For $80 Million
TechBeat: Made Men: Why Venture Capitalists Sponsor Other VCs