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Notable headlines:David Berlind: Podcast: ‘Google Gears’ vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps. Ed Burnette and Marc Orchant.
Written by Larry Dignan, Contributor

Notable headlines:

David Berlind: Podcast: ‘Google Gears’ vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps. Ed Burnette and Marc Orchant.

Google kicks offline Web apps into gear. Ryan Stewart:What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo . O'Reilly Radar: Google releases open source toolkit for offline web apps. Techmeme.

Donna Bogatin: Google's love hate relationship with the desktop.

Dan Farber@D5:

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Gates and Jobs ponder the past and the future.

Mahalo: A human-powered search directory. Related: Mahalo's launch statement.

Steve Jobs touts iPhone and Apple TV. Related: YouTube to be streamed via Apple TV. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Scoble: AppleTV "left the door open to its competitors."

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the hot seat.

News Corp.'s Peter Chernin view on MySpace.

Palm's Linux appliance for cell phones. Related: Will Palm's Foleo sell? Gallery (above). Techmeme. Is Foleo Palm's folly?

Ryan Naraine: Mozilla patches ‘critical’ Firefox memory corruption crashes. Remote vulnerability in high-profile Firefox extensions.

George Ou:  Free Wi-Fi Driver vulnerability auditing tool released. Intel V8 intimidates Barcelona using half the cores.

HP opens college lab in China for media search.

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers a trio of new Windows Live betas. Larry Dignan: Yahoo CTO resigns. Eleven years, 12,000 Yahoos and one great ride.

Garett Rogers: Google acquires Panoramio. Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt.

Computerworld: Nine burning questions about how Vista is really doing. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Vista will drive users to 4GB RAM, and the 4GB limit will driver users to 64-bit. Reuters: Motorola says to cut 4,000 more jobs.

TheStreet.com: Novell tops estimates.

IT's future--how about 20-hour work weeks?

Review: Kodak EasyShare EX-811 Digital Picture Frame (right).

Telcos change direction on Net phone services.

IBM to cut almost 1,600 more jobs. David Berlind: Monkcast #2: IBM retrenches around SOA.

Andrew Keen: Does Internet democracy work?

AppleInsider: Most AT&T stores expecting less than 40 iPhones at launch.

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Saugatuck: why SOA adoption is at a 'crawl.'

Larry Dignan: The DRM-free music era begins; What's next for Apple? Apple statement. iTunes goes DRM-free with EMI. Denise Howell: Day 1 of iTunes Plus has its minuses.

Techmeme: Last.fm bought by CBS.

GSA to cast shadow over Sun?

George Ou: Massive 'planned' network outage for AT&T-SBC. Review of Data Robotics' Drobo 'storage robot'.

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