News to know: Google-Italy; Intel; Oracle; Vizio; e-readers; IE6
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Sam Diaz: Google execs wrongly convicted by Italian court over an uploaded video
- Garett Rogers: Italy has really messed up the internet for their people
- Tom Foremski: Italian conviction of Google execs could aid traditional media
- CNET: Google execs convicted in YouTube Italy case
Larry Dignan: Intel: We were hit with cyberattack
Dennis Howlett: How Oracle gets customers to keep paying
Sean Portnoy: Vizio top LCD seller in U.S., but Samsung top overall HDTV maker
Larry Dignan: E-readers: Would it kill vendors to provide sales stats?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Die IE6! DIE!!!
Larry Dignan: Clearwire: We'll triple our 4G subscribers in 2010
Techcrunch: Yelp Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Running An “Extortion Scheme”
Christopher Dawson: Nintendo DSi XL: Another approach to 1:1?
Rachel King: Mini Connected brings together Mini Cooper, iPhone
Joe McKendrick: Fighting 'viral data': SOA Data Integration Architect Community launched
Bloom Energy unveils the Bloom Box
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Open source "weakens the software industry and undermines its long-term competitiveness" says lobby group
Heather Clancy: Is the federal government setting the right example in data center energy efficiency?
Internet Explorer 'Browser Ballot' system in action
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Opera 10.50 beta 2 for Windows is out
Oliver Marks: Mysteries of the Oracle...
Sam Diaz: Salesforce earnings: Strong fourth quarter, outlook
Jennifer Leggio: Twitter: Becoming nothing special?
Doug Hanchard: EPIC wants TSA to halt implementation of body scanners at airports
Rachel King: LG announces T280 laptop, X140, X200 netbooks
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source still not the first option
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft ships new Windows server optimized for shared educational use
Heather Clancy: Sprint: Give us your tired mobile phones, we'll recycle them
Rachel King: Neonode announces low-cost zForce Pad multi-touch panel
Doug Hanchard: High Court's terrorism ruling could affect how you use Gmail, Twitter and Facebook
Jason D. O'Grady: iPhone SDK references camera, flash, zoom and video conferencing
Jason Perlow: Close Encounter with a Customer Carebot
Heather Clancy: Things of signs to come: New LED street light
Sam Diaz: First, Apple. Now, Walmart. Porn gets no tech respect.
Mary Jo Foley: Windows XP downgrade suit against Microsoft is dismissed
Doug Hanchard: Women to serve aboard U.S. Navy submarines
Christopher Dawson: A little surgery on the Classmates
Forrester: Welcome to the cloud market, CA
Sean Portnoy: Is Nvidia Ion 2's graphics performance for netbooks a bust?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft unveils a locked-down, hosted app bundle for U.S. government customers
Michael Krigsman: Curse of the IT prima donna
Larry Dignan: CA adds to cloud portfolio, buys 3Tera
Rachel King: Olympus PEN E-PL1 Micro Four Thirds camera available now for $599
Larry Dignan: Disney's Web sites hit with outage
Dana Blankenhorn: Hospitals retain pricing power even in bad times
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How to stop the 'Chuck Norris' botnet roundhouse-kicking your router
Dan Kusnetzky: StarWind Software Take Two
Rachel King: HP announces 3.0 software upgrade for MediaSmart EX470 and EX480