News to know: E-readers; Web OS and IT; VMware; Cisco

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Dion Hinchcliffe: How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business

• Oliver Marks: Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration
• Joe McKendrick: Enterprise architecture pitfalls: the obvious, and beyond the obvious

Ed Bott: Follow-up: six online music services revisited

Jason Perlow: VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee

Review: Cisco 891 ISR

Jason Hiner: ASUS low-cost touchscreen ebook expected by end of 2009

• Engadget: ASUS planning dual screen Eee Reader: world's cheapest e-book reader
• Times of London: Tech news: For the smarter kind of bookworm

Techmeme: NYT's David Pogue and disclosure...

Janice Chen: Stanford's open-source camera lets the public choose camera features

• Dana Blankenhorn: How an open source camera will change photography
• Rachel King: Five digital cameras for going back to school

Matthew Miller: Review: Astak EZReader 5 inch Pocket PRO ebook device

Image Gallery: A walk around the Astak EZReader Pocket PRO 5 inch (right)

Blankenhorn: Why open source remains an ideological divide

• The good news about WalMart

TechCrunch: Life Recorders May Be This Century's Wrist Watch

Bloomberg: Google Agrees to Give Europeans a Say in Books Deal

Christopher Dawson: Cushing Academy leads the way with e-books

Brian Sommer: HP to Cut Loose its BPO operations?

John Morris: Sony, Nokia plan premium netbooks

• Gallery:
  Sony Vaio X Series up close (right)

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AT&T customers speak out over poor service

Six days in and first Snow Leopard update seeded to devs

Richard Koman: Amazon makes up for '1984' snafu but the chapter isn't over

• Andrew Nusca: Amazon offers redelivery, $30 to users who owned '1984'

Court stays ban on Microsoft Word sales

• Word saved? Microsoft gets stay of injunction in i4i patent battle

Larry Dignan: 10 things you can do while waiting for the Palm Pre to boot

Michael Krigsman: Exploring the Devil's Triangle

Ryan Naraine: Microsoft FTP in IIS vulnerability now under attack

Dan Kusnetzky: Delta/Northwest Airline Adventure

Paul Murphy: For your safety and convenience

Chris Jablonski:Brown University economists measure GDP growth from outer space

Garett Rogers: New Gmail themes available, or create your own

Richard Koman: Makers offer little help for lost or stolen devices

• China secretly requires real names to post comments

Paula Rooney: EU right to investigate Oracle's MySQL buy

Mary Jo Foley: More Microsoft layoffs, a resignation and other pre-Labor Day tidbits

Dennis Howlett: Is your supply chain gonna kill you?

• Tom Foremski: Using social media to turn all staff into customer service reps

Joe McKendrick: Enough of RESTless SOA? Speak now or forever hold your peace

Photos: Miss IFA shows off red-hot gadgets

Dana Gardner: VMworld, Red Hat Summit news takes cloud computing beyond the hype curve

• Rooney: Red Hat becomes bona fide virtualization vendor

Andrew Nusca: OLED notebooks to ship by late 2010, Samsung says

Jason O'Grady: AT&T's mea culpa on MMS (Sept. 25)

Zack Whittaker: Google: Pot, kettle, black, Chrome OS and a potential antitrust

• Sniping over Google Books Settlement intensifies
• Call for court to impose privacy regime on Google Books
• Android bolsters its app market as device lineup swells
• Authors Guild calls Amazon 'hypocritical'
• EPIC seeks to intervene in Books settlement, says privacy policies are no solution
• Does Google Book privacy policy go far enough?

Jason Perlow: Frugal Friday: Media Outrageousness, Snow Leopard Woes, Mac Virtualization, VMWorld 2009, EU kiboshes Oracle/Sun, Brocade

Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Sony BRAVIA HDTV, SanDisk Sansa Clip, Creative Labs Zen Mozaic MP3 player

Sean Portnoy: Panasonic adds 58-inch, 65-inch plasma HDTVs to Viera V10 series

Photos: Mars orbiter's abstract impressions