News to know: Safari 4, HP, Gmail outage, Ballmer's bets, SaaS adoption

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Safari 4 coverage:

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Safari 4 - This is one fast browser!

• Ryan Naraine: Apple catches up on Safari (browser) security
• Andrew Mager: Is Safari 4 the new default browser for web coding?
• Andrew Nusca: First impressions: Apple Safari 4 beta
• Jason D. O'Grady: Apple releases Safari 4 beta (Updated with Acid3 results)
• Larry Dignan: Apple launches Safari 4 beta, but my browser portfolio is crowded
• Andrew Nusca: Apple announces Safari 4 browser public beta; '3X faster' than IE 7, Firefox 3
• Reader poll: Which browser will you use?

Tom Foremski: HP and Sun expand partnership...what about a merger?

• Sam Diaz: Analyst: HP and IBM should be friends, not foes

Christopher Dawson: Will Gmail's outage make me think twice about:  Edu Apps?

• Sam Diaz: Gmail outage not a cloud deal-breaker

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009

• Amid downturn, Microsoft should be thinking bigger
• Ballmer: Office 14 not this year

Larry Dignan: Forrester: SaaS adoption up, but hurdles remain

Sean Portnoy: Computer-in-a-plug platform looks to shrink network-connected devices

Harry Fuller: Wind and wildlife: co-existence or conflict?

• Those snazzy new HP batteries will be made in Taiwan
• New Englanders can now see the gory details

Sean Portnoy: Cable, satellite companies look to bring TV programming online. Believe the hype?

Harry Fuller: Government doings: water, climate

Chris Jablonski: Doors that 'revolutionize' power generation

Mary Jo Foley: Google seeks to join Internet Explorer antitrust complaint

Ryan Naraine: Unofficial 'patch' for Adobe Reader, Acrobat zero-day

• Heads-up: Critical Adobe Flash Player patch coming

Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft thinking with Windows Mobile?

• Microsoft readies a new 'netbook-like' Windows Server SKU

Dana Blankenhorn: The health ID piranhas attack

CIO Session: Dan Darling, Turner Broadcasting System

Adam O'Donnell: Microsoft confirms 0-day in Excel, expands list of vulnerable systems

David Morgenstern: Happy Birthday, Steve Jobs

Mike Rothman: Will the real [Breach X] please stand up?

Paula Rooney: Red Hat's KVM play should give Citrix and VMware pause

Christopher Dawson: Free antenna experiment...any takers?

Dana Blankenhorn: The health IT piranhas attack

Mary Jo Foley: How the Red Dog dream team built a cloud OS from scratch

Larry Dignan: VMware demos cloud OS; Touts private cloud computing

• Sam Diaz: Iomega eyes small business with VMware-ready NAS
• Larry Dignan: Novell, VMware unveil collaboration pact

Dana Blankenhorn: Ingres-Alfresco get into ring with Microsoft SharePoint

Dana Gardner: Enterprise IT architecture advocacy groups merge to promote wider standards adoption and global member services reach

Paula Rooney: Progress' open source FUSE ESB makes gains in recession

Larry Dignan: Motorola dishes off Good Technology to Visto

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Mar/Apr 09

Joe McKendrick: SOA and information tech 2009: a year of extreme focus

Dana Blankenhorn: Red Hat virtualization friend of the little guy

Harry Fuller: Climate change: less could mean more. That's not good

Andrew Nusca: Will Facebook 'infantilize' the human mind?

Matthew Miller: imeem Mobile for the G1 adds ability to serve up your own music collection

Dana Blankenhorn: Ubuntu allies with Amazon and Dell

Larry Dignan: Micron: We're cutting as many as 2,000 workers in Boise

Matthew Miller: Pantech Matrix Pro available from AT&T

Dan Kusnetzky: Parallels' Serguei Beloussov speaks out on free XenServer

Jason Hiner: Sanity check: State of the IT profession 2009

Dennis Howlett: Agresso banks record year