News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you
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Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft’s planned cloud platform. Techmeme
- A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve?
- Zack Whittaker: Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealed
- Student Technology Day: Microsoft Surface demos
- Student Technology Day: what it's all about
- Joe McKendrick: SOA soon part of the 'cloud'? Hold that thought
- Microsoft readies new 'Dublin' distributed app server
Larry Dignan: Google talks efficient data centers
Robin Harris: How to read your FBI file
Photos: Gadgets at Ceatec, day 1
Photos: Cell phone concepts at Ceatec
Garett Rogers: Google Blog Search re-launches, now it's useful
TechRepublic: 10 must-have Linux office applications
Matthew Miller: Should Palm drop their Linux plans and embrace Android?
NYT: Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China
Heather Clancy: Toshiba: Feel free to trade in more gadgets. Lots more.
Foley: Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveaway. Dignan: Microsoft's search perks gambit eyes 22% of market up for grabs
Tom Foremski: California governor: Silicon Valley Should Go to Germany
Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuit
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple strikes back against Psystar, asks for counterclaim to be dismissed
- Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!
- Forrester: iPhone + Lotus Notes = Opportunity + Annoyance
- Jason O'Grady: Adobe actively developing a Flash Player iPhone
- Apple drops iPhone developer NDA. Techmeme
- Silicon Alley Insider: Apple TV Gets An Upgrade — Without Steve Jobs' Help (AAPL)
Earnings preview: Will Apple deliver?
Dennis Howlett: Agresso's answer to ERP addiction
Brian Sommer: Click Heels 3 Times and Say 'I want to IPO, I want to IPO'
Sam Diaz: IBM's one-day tumble: Tough quarter or fluctuating dollar?
VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD
Michael Krigsman: Medicare no-pay list: Lessons for IT consulting
All Facebook: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead
John Morris: HP's first 13.3-inch Pavilion vs. the competition
- Kingsley-Hughes: Day 1 with my new Nokia E71
- Andrew Nusca: To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You
- CrunchGear: Netflix to stream movies from Starz
Adam O'Donnell: What, me worry (about mobile viruses)?
Richard Koman: House servers suffering from financial bail-out
- Welcome to the White Space
- Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black hole
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages
Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft HealthVault offers the nickel tour
News.com: Kevin Mitnick detained, released after Colombia tripDignan: Is security really a big drag on innovation? How is the credit crunch impacting your economy?
Roland Piquepaille:Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots
Oliver Marks: The 'Social Media' Conundrum
BBC: Blizzard wins Warcraft bot payout
HP eyes midmarket; Buys LeftHand Networks
Richard Koman: Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accounts
Christopher Dawson: Another setback for university P2P
Job alert: SAP, COBOL, PowerBuilder?
Steve O'Hear: Slide to distribute video on Facebook; Facebook to overtake MySpace in the US; Oasis launches new album on MySpace
John Carroll: Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave