News to know: Firefox 3.5; Lenovo; Blackberry Tour; Chambers

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Benchmarking Firefox 3.5

• Testing Firefox 3.5 ... mind your add-ons!
• Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.5 released, more than 1.1M downloads already
• Zack Whittaker: Can Firefox 3.5 wean universities off their IE addiction?
• CNet News: With 3.5 launch, Firefox faces new challengers
• Larry Dignan: Firefox 3.5: Well positioned as mid-sized browser gorilla
• Technologizer: Firefox 3.5: The Technologizer Review
• Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to push IE 8 to more business users in August

John Morris: Desktops aren't dead (yet)

Andrew Nusca: Lenovo introduces latest ThinkServer lineup; Intel Xeon 5500, 128GB DDR3, 16 bays

BlackBerry Tour lands at Verizon on July 12; $199.99

• Asus Wireless-N RT-N16 router offers 300Mbps throughput
• Micron begins mass production of 34nm NAND flash memory
• Helping corporations leverage the Web, using open source and the cloud

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Sam Diaz: Chambers plays up power of network at Cisco Live

• Google, Yahoo agreed to IM deal a year ago; Apparently, it quietly died with ad deal

Dignan: Forrester expects IT spending trough in third quarter; U.S. tech spending to fall 5 percent in 2009

• Amazon vs. tax happy states: E-tailer could nuke Associates program and still win
• Analyst: Kindle to reach 10 percent of Amazon's customer base; Ending Target deal a risk
• Review: Feds provide a handy window into their IT spending

TechCrunch: Can Open Government Be Gamed?

Andrew Mager: Twitter adds better friend management

Cisco CEO: 'Video is the killer app'

Foley: Microsoft seeks a name for its new Office Web Apps suite

MIchael Krigsman: Failing with online backup

NYT: Beijing Delays Rule on Software Censor

Screenshots: Doom Resurrection on iPhone

Richard Koman: Exclusive: Proof that Green Dam ripped off Solid Oak in 2006

• Breaking news: Green Dam Day delayed

Jennifer Bergen: MyDeskFriend: Robotic penguin connects you to your Facebook friends

• Gadget Gal's daily deals: Sony BRAVIA and PS3 combo, Magellan Maestro GPS, Pentax Optio digital camera

Christopher Dawson: Good enough to pay for, part 2: Microsoft Office

• Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order

TorrentFreak: The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal

Jason O'Grady: Weird iPhone apps

• iPhone 3GS overheating linked to battery

Hitwise: Michael Jackson Draws Record Traffic to TMZ

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Lenovo IdeaPad Y450

Joe McKendrick: Gartner: companies gear up SOA for upcoming economic recovery

Dana Blankenhorn: Can a Virginia hack scuttle health IT reform?

• Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?

MediaMemo: Here Comes the Video Shakeout: Joost Scales Down, CEO Mike Volpi Steps Out

Computerworld: Microsoft to charge Europeans double for Windows 7

Tom Foremski: Visionary 2009: Kay Koplovitz - more women entrepreneurs

• Visionary 2009: Judy Estrin says innovation is in trouble

Rachel King: Canon cutting 700 jobs in Japan

• Point Grey debuts new 1.3 megapixel USB 2.0 camera model

Heather Clancy: Get ready for the Energy Star 5.0 barrage: Let the testing begin

• Harry Fuller: California not politically bankrupt
• Case study of resource use without thought of consequences

Broadcom ups hostile offer for Emulex; Sets July 14 deadline

Diaz: Too many social networks? GizaPage puts them all into one social home page

Harry Fuller: Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Dan Kusnetzky: Sun VirtualBox 3.0