News to know: Inauguration, IBM, Windows, Microsoft cutbacks, Intel

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Inauguration coverage:

Jennifer Leggio: Inauguration pass or fail? Social network, streaming video report card

 

Christopher Dawson: So how did it go? Debriefing the inauguration

 

Andrew Mager: White House website updated

• Richard Koman: Inauguration 2.0: Citizen Networking

Oliver Marks: Obama's Transparency Problem

Tom Foremski: What should be top of President Obama's tech initiatives?

My choice for President Obama's CTO . . .

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Listening to President Obama: What Price Citizenship?

Paula Rooney: Microsoft, Moonlight reach across aisle to bring Obama inauguration to Linux desktops

 

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Breaking News On The Inauguration: Look, Don't Listen (Yet)

Andrew Mager: Tag Cloud of Obama's inauguration speech

 

Larry Dignan: Big Blue delivers strong fourth quarter, a rarity these days

• Dennis Howlett:  Can IBM sustain its momentum?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows Experience Index in Windows 7

Larry Dignan: Qualcomm picks up AMD's graphics assets

 

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft tightens its belt, but still no layoffs announced

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Intel slashes selected processor prices by up to 40%

Sam Diaz: iPhone & Photos: Business opportunities through Apps

• Ted Schadler: Google Apps shows some commercial clout with a reseller program
• Jason D. O'Grady: BlackBerry Application Storefront to challenge App Store

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft dumps Comcast shares

David Morgenstern: Apple: Is the sky falling?

Sam Diaz: Google can't save newspapers; smart to dump print-ad project

Ryan Naraine: Heartland finds malware in bank card payment system

• Adam O'Donnell:  It's a good day to disclose the largest credit card data breach event

Andrew Nusca: Forget Yahoo, forget Dell: Should Microsoft buy Palm?

Larry Dignan: Amazon, Netflix, Priceline: Are they really recession resistant?

 

TechRepublic: 10 reasons to purchase new hardware during a recession

Andrew Nusca: Apple Mac, iPod sales see slight rebound in December

Oliver Marks: The Open Enterprise: Finding The Successes and Pain Points

Joe Brockmeier:Bringing the FOSS tribe together: The future of community shows

Dana Blankenhorn: Cloud boom or cloud bubble?

Harry Fuller: New U.S. energy triumverate now in power

David Morgenstern: Microsoft improves Exchange sync in new Entourage Beta

Dana Gardner:Enterprises find easier ways to package and deliver applications and data to mobile devices

Paul Greenberg: CRM Vendor Thought Leaders - Thinking, Thinking......Hmmm

Harry Fuller: What's red, white and blue, and green all over?

• Want to own your own home generator?

Brian Sommer: PPM & IT Management -  is now finally the time?

Dancho Danchev: Malware-infected WinRAR distributed through Google AdWords

Matthew Miller: T-Mobile G1 rumors, data only plan option and replacement battery

 

Jason D. O'Grady: Apple drops copy protection from iWork '09

 

Matthew Miller: Study shows 85% of users are frustrated with setting up their new phones

 

Jason D. O'Grady: Ustream viewer available in App Store

 

Matthew Miller: Global copy and paste comes to jailbroken iPhones

 

Larry Dignan: Closing the loop: Circuit City's liquidation

 

Mary Jo Foley: Opera CTO: Here's how to level the browser playing field

 

Garett Rogers: Google iPhone interface is history

 

Dennis Howlett: SAP's Kagermann to retire early

Zack Whittaker: The next generation vision of your future desktop

 

Fake reviews prompt Belkin apology

 

Matthew Miller: Is visual voicemail coming in a future BlackBerry OS update?

 

Heather Clancy: Got green tech? You could get some free online advertising

 

Dan Kusnetzky: Egenera releases PAN Manager 5.2