News to know: IE vs Chrome; Microsoft's TV pack; Oracle; Pandora CEO

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Mary Jo Foley: Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'?

• Larry Dignan: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux

Ed Bott: TV Pack headaches reveal Microsoft's Media Center dilemma. Gallery (right).

• Ed Burnette: How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVo

Sam Diaz: Hey, Microsoft. About those ads... Yeah, like that.

Bits: How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers

Larry Dignan: Oracle's first quarter allays worries

Palm moves more than 1 million smartphones in quarter

BoomTown: Too-Powerful Google Thumbs Its Nose at Everyone-Good Luck With That, Eric!

Josh Taylor: Has the iPhone delayed the Blackberry Bold’s US debut?

TechRepublic: Has Lenovo ruined the ThinkPad?

• 10 ways to learn new skills on the cheap
• Synergy: Buzzword or codeword?

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Failure To Not Communicate

Richard Koman: Who hacked Sarah's email? And who is rubicon10?

Adam O'Donnell: Webmail and Traditional E-Mail face different threats

• Dancho Danchev: Norwegian BitTorrent tracker under DDoS attack, attackers claim to have compromised it too
• "Hacking Sarah Palin's email was easy" says the attacker

The Register: Google to DoJ: The clock is ticking

Andrew Mager: Twitter has a new look

Heather Clancy: Lenovo slashes monitor energy consumption by up to 60 percent

Jason O'Grady: Interview: Alex Sokirynsky developer of Podcaster

• Jennifer Leggio: Pandora opens up: Q&A with Tim Westergren
• Dennis Howlett: A conversation with Thomas Otter, Gartner anlayst and blogger

Sean Portnoy: Memorex announces $269 Blu-ray player

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Grab yourself a 64GB solid-state drive for $99

• Gallery: From reel-to-reel to Blu-ray

Joe McKendrick: 'Out of your brain and onto a hard disk': Microsoft's Oslo SOA push

• Needed: 'five times' as many SOA architects as we now have

Dignan: Web 2.0: Don't forget the business risks

• Are you suffering from information filter failure?
• Tom Foremski: One ring that binds them all -- that's the business strategy

Phil Wainewright: BT bundles up SaaS for SMBs

• Sam Diaz: Amazon to offer content delivery service. Techmeme

Dana Blankenhorn: Cleversafe a champion of open source cloud storage

• Open source spying means military intelligence
• If not Google, which corporation best champions open source?

Paul Murphy: From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureHarry Fuller: If you ordered a GM Volt, you may be disappointed...

EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney to Stop Illegal Surveillance

Zack Whittaker: Mythbusters display colourful insight into CPU and GPU differences

Joshua Greenbaum: Leo Apotheker's Leadership Opportunity: SAP At the Crossroads

Roland Piquepaille:Cleaning ship hulls with a robot

Christopher Dawson: How many techs does it take to change a lightbulb?

Ryan Naraine: DarkMarket ID theft message board shuts down

Michael Krigsman: 3 steps to IT preventive maintenance

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Has IBM Figured Out The Art Of The Sale Better Than Bill & Jerry?

• Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft pressed SHIFT-DEL on epic fail Gates/Seinfeld ads

Matthew Miller: Zune manual sync mode lets you control your content

• Nokia launches unique Nokia Legends advertising campaign
• Neuros OSD 2 developer kit available, open source set-top for your TV

Janice Chen: More details on Canon EOS 5D Mark IIFoley: Bring on the fake John Hodgman!

Richard Koman: E-waste regs are way too lax, GAO says

• NY issues its RealID card

Garett Rogers: Google gains Steam with Valve acquisition

Dan Kusnetzky:What is virtualization?

Steve O'Hear: Facebook's Zuckerberg makes Forbes' rich list

Andrew Nusca: Wall Street woes? Silicon Valley is hiring

ITC to probe Nintendo Wii patent infringement

Dawson: A tribute to Pop