News to know: Gmail outage; VMWorld; Skype; Browsers; Steve Jobs; Google Wave
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Andrew Nusca: Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter
- Christopher Dawson: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down
Sam Diaz: VMWare's Maritz: IT spending patterns need change if industry intends to grow
Larry Dignan: Makes sense now: eBay unloads Skype; Gets $1.9 billion in cash and keeps 35% stake
- eBay finds its Skype exit and it's probably for the best
- Dave Greenfield: Skype's Sale: The Avaya Factor
Andrew Nusca: Internet Explorer posts largest loss since '08; Firefox, Chrome, Safari gain
Jason D. O'Grady: Munster: Jobs to appear on 9/9/9
- Larry Dignan: Analyst: Jobs will hit the stage next week
Larry Dignan: Google Wave open to select Google Apps customers
Jason D. O'Grady: Blackberry vs. iPhone smackdown
Richard Koman: Privacy groups want Congressional action on behavioral ads
Jason Hiner: Review: How the iPhone 3GS stacks up as a corporate device
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile Touch Pro2 already has most improvements of Windows Mobile 6.5
Christopher Dawson: Opera 10: Worth deploying in schools?
David Morgenstern: Snow Leopard: FileMaker Product Compatibility
Matthew Miller: Smartphones rising to take the lead over PNDs by 2014
Heather Clancy: What does it mean to be a green IT professional? The definition is definitely a moving target.
Ryan Naraine: Firefox add-on spies on Google usage, search results
Gallery: Sony S-Series Walkman
Sam Diaz: Cast Iron, Amazon partner to push migration to EC2 cloud
Paul Miller: Oracle delivers native support for Thomson Reuters' OpenCalais service
- Larry Dignan: Oracle 11g Release 2 available
Sam Diaz: Dell partners with Brocade to compete in data center war
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft confirms IIS zero-day flaw; Exploit code published
Harry Fuller: A bravo for Brammo
Richard Koman: Germany says Google Books violates international law
Tom Foremski: Caring.com: Helping adult children care for aging parents
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Apple iPod touch education discount, Samsung HDTV, Sony Cyber-shot digital camera
Harry Fuller: Gute Nacht, Herr Edison
Harry Fuller: California's burning: greentech solution?
Robin Harris: Build a RAID 6 array for $100/TB
Jennifer Leggio: Fortune 500 Series: DirecTV strengthens customer channel with social media
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft to push 'mandatory' Live Messenger security patch
Andrew Nusca: SmartPlanet: New BMW turbodiesel hybrid goes 0-60 mph in 4.8 secs; 75 mpg
Dana Blankenhorn: Will GOP winning the battle force Democrats to war?
Andrew Nusca: Raytheon acquires BBN Technologies, firm that developed Internet, e-mail, VoIP
Dana Gardner: XDAS standard aims to empower IT audit trails from across complex events, perhaps clouds
Joe McKendrick: Another view: cloud not ready to take on SOA heavy lifting
Richard Koman: EU likes Google's book registry idea
Zack Whittaker: Apology solicited for death of computing founding father Turing
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source Medsphere sees $12 million
Heather Clancy: AMD amps up performance-per-watt with new Opteron chip
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers test build of Windows 7-based 'Quebec' Embedded OS
Matthew Miller: Mobile Napster site lets you download your purchased tracks OTA
Richard Koman: German court orders Google to change TOS - a little late
Andrew Nusca: SmartPlanet: 3 of 4 executives say outsourcing necessary to maintain bottom lin
Mary Jo Foley: Windows Mobile 6.5 phones coming October 6
Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft lover Citrix as heroine of the open source cloud
Rachel King: Casio announces new Exilim pocket camera: the EX-Z280
ZDNet UK: Sony to ship Chrome with Vaio PCs
John Morris: The choices for thin, low-cost ULV laptops expand
Andrew Nusca: Western Digital debuts 2TB, 7200RPM enterprise-class hard drives
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Western Digital debuts 7,200RPM 2TB hard drive
CNET: IIS flaw under investigation by Microsoft
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