News to know: Scareware; HP; SAP; Cloud computing
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Dancho Danchev: The ultimate guide to scareware protection
Gallery: The ultimate guide to scareware protection
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Windows Mobile 7 not on the PDC docket
Andrew Nusca: Samsung Go netbook: Balanced, for a big bounty [review]
Consumerist: MMS For iPhone Rollout Begins, 2 Weeks Early
Tom Foremski: HP's Social Computing Lab and its fascinating research into Internet user behavior
Dennis Howlett: Siemens cans SAP support
Phil Wainewright: Finally, technology is about people
WSJ: EMC Nabs Intel Talent; Race on for CEO
Andrew Nusca: AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]
TechCrunch: Intuit To Acquire (Former TechCrunch50 Winner) Mint For $170 Million
OTOY's Jules Urbach: Cloud computing 'threatens' game consoles, Blu-ray, PCs [interview]
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: 3rd gen iPod touch contains an 802.11n-capable WiFi chip
- Microsoft's Windows 7 ad campaign kicks off
- Western Digital introduces us to n three new My Passport portable drives
Moconews: Hard To Believe But Motorola Is Now A Software Company
Michael Krigsman: Video: Introduction to ERP complexity
CNet News: Dirt cheap: Techdirt bets on ‘free’ business models
Joe McKendrick: Forrester's Randy Heffner: only one percent turned off by SOA so far
Ed Burnette: Tests show Safari 4 "clearly the worst" for battery life
Heather Clancy: Buy 3PAR storage, they'll buy a carbon offset certificate
Another university embraces desktop power management
NewTeeVee: Hands-On: iPod Nano vs. Flip SD
Paul Murphy: Pano, Sun Ray, and the Wintel gestalt
Larry Dignan: Red Hat: Quiet winner amid Sun's server apocalypse?
RealNetworks: It can get worse
Andrew Nusca: AT&T consumer perception drops during summer '09
Foley: DOJ requests more info on Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
Microsoft: Zune HD will be 'U.S. only'
- Matthew Miller: Microsoft sends out Zune Marketplace update email, server down the 14th
- Geek.com podcast 27; showing some love for Windows Mobile
Garett Rogers: Micropayments in Google Checkout soon
Dana Blankenhorn: Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?
Will new Motorola Google phone Cliq?
SearchEngineLand: What's Yahoo's “Plan B” For Search?
Richard Koman: Court overturns $358m verdict against Microsoft
- On Marketplace, talking Google Books
- MSFT presents CodePlex - open source foundation with a commercial twist
Cloud floats among India's large firms
Chris Jablonski: Neuroengineering to challenge what it means to be human
Twitter tweaks terms of service
Zack Whittaker: Generation Y and conscientious consumerism
Sean Portnoy: Pioneer's Project ET networked entertainment concept phones home (theaters)
Christopher Dawson: Hey, Amazon! Are you stupid?
Harry Fuller: Windmills stir up opposition
Phil Fersht: Derail the Healthcare gravy-train: introduce competitive multi-sourcing