News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV

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Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead

• CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over
• Gartner’s worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn’t so bad
• Sean Portnoy: Gartner’s CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)

Tom Foremski: How will Silicon Valley startups be affected by a downturn?

• Microsoft and Yahoo: Ballmer’s ‘failure’ now a ‘dodged bullet’

• Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, no

Sam Diaz: Facebook: Is there a Moore’s Law for sharing?

Zack Whittaker: Facebook as social rule of thumb?

Sam Diaz: Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple’s notebook event

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple HDTV … why not, it’s just a big iPod!
• Techmeme: Leaked images, speculation and rumors surrounding a display.

Dana Blankenhorn: Economics of open source remains an academic challenge

Christopher Dawson: OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enough

• Paula Rooney: OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?
• Christopher Dawson: And speaking of Sun Microsystems

Larry Dignan: Negotiating with your hardware vendor 101

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Does the credit crunch represent a silver lining for open source?

Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model

• Andrew Nusca: Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.

Larry Dignan: SharePoint: What are the risks, rewards?

Richard Koman: Copyright czar is born: Prez signs Pro-IP law

Adam O'Donnell: Debate around ‘partial disclosure’ heats up

• Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers

Zack Whittaker: Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0

Paul Miller: Jim Hendler and Dean Allemang to kick off Semantic Universe webcasts

Paula Rooney: Zmanda launches open source backup, recovery solutions for Windows