News to know: RIM, Facebook TOS, Apple-Adobe, Android
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Andrew Nusca: SEC charges RIM, 4 senior execs with stock option backdating
Sam Diaz: Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset for a better reason
- Richard Koman: EPIC ready to sue Facebook over terms
Dana Blankenhorn: Can open source make Apple deal with Adobe?
Ed Burnette: Market Moves: Translating fun into profit with Android
Andrew Nusca: Microsoft in talks to acquire Israeli VR startup
Richard Koman: Prosecutor drops a charge in Pirate Bay case
Janice Chen: Fujifilm announces five new FinePix cameras, including first waterproof model
Jason Perlow: I've Seen the Future of Computing: It's a Screen.
Doug Washburn: What Cisco’s EnergyWise technology means to Green IT
Andrew Nusca: Google Android-powered HTC Magic debuts
Chris Jablonski: Nano-sized radio plays Eric Clapton’s "Layla"
Dancho Danchev: Targeted malware attacks exploiting IE7 flaw detected
Dennis Howlett: Social silly season
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Unlimited Potential team gets a new chief
Andrew Nusca: Spammers break Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA...again
Larry Dignan: Will cheap oil affect green innovation?
Sam Diaz: AT&T confirms Dell's smartphone - but Dell doesn't
Jennifer Leggio: Obituaries go... social? Monster.com founder puts death notices on the Web
- Zack Whittaker: Social obituaries: insensitive idiot or perpetual entrepreneur?
Sam Diaz: Analyst: Declines in Mac, iPod sales isn't so bad
Jason D. O'Grady: iFixIt dissects the unibody MacBook Pro 17-inch (Updated)
Dancho Danchev: Crimeware tracking service hit by a DDoS attack
Andrew Nusca: Universal mobile phone charger promises 50% less draw
Andrew Nusca: Controlling a robotic blimp with Android
Adam O'Donnell: Do we need a new internet? No, but we do need more researchers.
Paula Rooney: It's true: Microsoft and Red Hat cooperate on virtualization
- Larry Dignan: The Red Hat and Microsoft pact: A nice win for mixed source shops; Frenemies vs VMware
Zack Whittaker: The Microsoft-netbook controversy explained
Jason D. O'Grady: Regulators: iPhone card counting app a felony (Updated 2x)Larry Dignan: Microsoft's mobile strategy: Can it thread the prosumer needle?
Andrew Nusca: Skype to be embedded on Nokia, Sony smartphones
Mary Jo Foley: Sign of the times: Microsoft holds 'custom support' pricing constant
Andrew Nusca: Cisco to bring Web conferencing to more smartphones
Larry Dignan: Yahoo rolls up mobile apps under Yahoo Mobile moniker
Andrew Nusca: Sirius XM agrees to $530 million Liberty Media stake
- Christopher Dawson: Look, Ma! Twitter's useful!
- MWC 09: Quickoffice for Android announced, viewer only
- MWC 09: Nokia announces N86 with 8 megapixel camera
Dana Blankenhorn: Medpedia launch official but Knol has got game
Andrew Mager: Obama's new recovery website launches
Dana Blankenhorn: The gigantic opportunity of mHealth
Dana Gardner: LogLogic delivers integrated suite for securely managing enterprise-wide log data
Dana Blankenhorn: Will new Joslyn business model work
Larry Dignan: Newegg, Amazon, Netflix lead e-tail customer satisfaction; eBay hits all-time low
Paula Rooney: Zmanda's 3.0 backup supports cloud, Sharepoint, PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB
Paul Greenberg: CRM Playaz: Episode #2: Twitterspeak; Plagiarism Just Doesn't Go Away
Ed Burnette: PPoPP 2009 Day 1: Parallel Thinking
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Worst. Windows 7. Piece. EVER!
Dan Kusnetzky: Server Virtualization Design Module for Lanamark Suite
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The biggest threat to Microsoft's bottom line isn't Mac or Linux - it's netbooks!
Larry Dignan: Local Hardware Chain Hammers Away with IT