News to know: Server wars; Windows 7; GMail; China hacker arrests; SAP
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Larry Dignan: Server wars: Intel, HP prep new Itanium; IBM launches new Power7 systems
- IBM launches Power7 systems; Wages YouTube, Facebook war on Oracle's Sun
- Sam Diaz: Intel unveils Itanium 9300, highlights next-gen computing for enterprise
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's Windows 7 chief: It's not us; it's your batteries
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft: Windows 7 isn't trashing your battery
Sam Diaz: Is GMail going social? Or is this another step toward collaborative communications?
ZDNet UK: China breaks up Black Hawk hacking ring
Dennis Howlett: Can SAP rebuild trust and innovation?
Brian Sommer: iPad musings - How big is the market for this anyway?
- ZDNet Asia: Report: 50M tablets to sell in 2014
- Robin Harris: iPad: Gateway drug to Mac addiction?
- Sean Portnoy: Can Sony compete against Apple's iPad with its own tablet PC?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: YouGov: Microsoft outpaces Apple in customer satisfaction
Sam Diaz: Google lowers Nexus One return fee - but is it enough?
Sean Portnoy: Netflix will add 1080p, 5.1-channel surround sound streaming to its online video service later in 2010
Andrew Nusca: BenQ unveils V2220, 'world's slimmest' 21.5-inch monitor
Ed Bott: Touchscreens in the tropics: an unexpected Windows story
Joe McKendrick: Is cloud computing hype, or something riskier?
- Dana Gardner: Converged infrastructure approach paves way for improved data center productivity, private clouds
- Dan Kusnetzky: "Cloud computing": What is it exactly?
Mary Jo Foley: Is Windows 7 reliability fix making PCs less reliable?
Andrew Nusca: HTC Incredible Android smartphone caught in the wild
Jason D. O'Grady: App Store craziness: banning the word 'Android'
Tom Foremski: When suppliers go direct - turning Amazon into an affiliate
Christopher Dawson: The price of free: Google's calendar mess
John Carroll: Microsoft's innovation disconnect
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple's Mac: If not Intel CPUs/Boot Camp, what's behind the success?
Mary Jo Foley: A leaner, meaner Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate expected later this week
Tom Foremski: The British invented much of the Internet
Jennifer Leggio: The art of social redundancy
Paula Rooney: Leostream's Connection Broker 6.3 enhanced for Xen, Sun VDI
Matthew Miller: Get one year of TeleNav GPS Navigator for Android for the price of 7 months
ZDNet UK: Oracle releases emergency patch
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Build your own high-performance video/photo editing PC ... for under $1,500
Andrew Nusca: Report: Google developing on-the-fly translation software
Dana Blankenhorn: Torvalds' Nexus One endorsement may be regretted
Dana Gardner: BriefingsDirect analyst panelists peer into crystal balls for latest IT growth and impact trends
Ed Burnette: Kindle developers: Don't ask, don't tell
Dana Blankenhorn: Ellison puts Screven over mySQL
Heather Clancy: An ironic place to test electric vehicles: Inside an old oil tank in Israel
Rachel King: How to shoot photos around bright lights indoors and during nighttime
Dana Blankenhorn: Hunter pushes CodePlex as a business-oriented foundation
Heather Clancy: Power management by design: Climate Savers org offers step-by-step guide
Andrew Nusca: Barnes & Noble says Nook e-readers officially back in stock
Paul Greenberg: Heartache by the Numbers: Twitter & Influence Poll
Rachel King: Five gadgets for the ultimate Winter Olympics viewing experience
Dana Blankenhorn: SharEHR is a cloud-based EHR that uses your current records
Larry Dignan: Xerox closes ACS purchase: A look at the grand plan