News to know: Internet worm's 20th birthday; Windows 7; Apple patents; Ubuntu
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Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors
Adam O'Donnell: Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!
- Ryan Naraine: Opera sings the security blues
- Adobe nukes 'critical' Pagemaker flaws
- Cyberattacks target UK national infrastructure
- Dancho Danchev:Phishers apply quality assurance, start validing credit card numbers
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft drops more new codenames, including another 'Mojave'
- Dana Gardner: Microsoft's cloud push: Too little too late on purpose?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is out
- Images: Ubuntu's Intrepid Ibex on the loose (right)
- TechRepublic: How often do you switch OSes or distributions?
WSJ: Talks Over Google-Yahoo Search Deal Fail to Progress
CNET News: Apple hires top IBM chip designer and blade server guru
Sam Diaz: Sun posts $1.67 billion loss on write-off
Reuters: US appeals court rejects business method patents
Patent ruling: Good or bad for tech innovation?
Brian Sommer: Reengineering HR Solutions #2Joshua Greenbaum: More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software
- Michael Krigsman: Six tips when buying enterprise software
- Paul Murphy: From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
Google: What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud
Larry Dignan: Motorola: Handset unit spin-off delayed; No Android 'til next Christmas; Layoffs on tap
- Andrew Nusca: Motorola gPhone by Xmas '09: A big mistake?
- Sam Diaz: A tough decision: Grab an iPhone or wait for the Storm?
- Silicon Republic: BlackBerry Storm price plans revealed
Caroline McCarthy: The new AOL.com gets all social and stuff
Christopher Dawson: Classroom 2.0 and the joys of Ning
Gallery: 10 Apple patents to watch
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Ghost Story: Fear of Microsoft Fades
- Kingsley-Hughes: Does anyone expect Apple's ads to be truthful?
Dana Blankenhorn: Has Chrome fixed its Adobe problem?
- Garett Rogers: Google supports OpenID, kind of
- Matthew Miller: How do I know what applications are updated in the Android Market?
I like Windows Mobile and am not ashamed to admit it
Jason O'Grady: 6GB of RAM possible in new MacBook and MBP- Mossberg laments lack of bargain Mac in his Fall Guide
- USB 2.0 is faster on MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
- David Morgenstern: Who's buying the iPhone and why
Dan Kusnetzky:Scary virtualization dream for Halloween
Joe Brockmeier: WePC: Intel and Asus forming community, or focus group 2.0?
Joe McKendrick: Best SOA governance is hard to see
Silicon Alley Insider: Revenue Crisis: Here Come The Pro Accounts
Jennifer Leggio: Plurk dissolves into social networking ghost town
Heather Clancy: Eight more states covered under vendor-led tech recycling initiative
- Harry Fuller: Electric cars on the streets
Roland Piquepaille:Duplicating your keys without your knowledge
Netflix distribution grab continues: Hooks up with Tivo
Richard Koman: Innocents being sued for game piracy
Christopher Dawson: So where are the Classmates here in the States?
Blankenhorn: Health Care IT a promise too far?