News to know: Smartphones; Windows 7; Palm Pre; EU and Sun-Oracle
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Andrew Nusca: Smartphones to eclipse desktop PC sales by 2011
- Sam Diaz: Facebook Mobile: Now 65 million strong
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is lower power consumption Windows 7's killer feature?
- Mary Jo Foley: System builders still waiting for Windows 7 tools
Andrew Nusca: Is the Palm Pre a failure?
Richard Koman: Future of MySQL worries EU regulators looking at Oracle-Sun deal
- Dana Blankenhorn: What the EU delay means for Oracle, Sun and us
Sam Diaz: J.D. Powers: Verizon tops in voice quality; AT&T, Sprint get no love
Dan Kusnetzky: Doing the VMworld Dance Summary
David Morgenstern: Snow Leopard install fails? Find a flashlight!
Richard Koman: Amazon: Congress, not Google, should make digital book policy
Ryan Naraine: Opera browser (finally) gets an auto-updater
Christopher Dawson: Am I a big whiner about Gmail's downtime?
Heather Clancy: EPA to schools: Cut energy costs, have more budget for education
Harry Fuller: U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Samsung camcorder, Toshiba HDTV, Uniden dual cordless phone
CNET: Flickr changes tune over Obama Joker image
Ed Burnette: Planet Android and the terrible twos
Christopher Dawson: Controversy over Obama's student address? Gimme a break!
Rachel King: Panasonic introduces LUMIX DMC-GF1 and two new lenses
Dennis Howlett: JD Edwards certification woes
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Gone in 31 seconds - 31 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones and 9 iPods
Matthew Miller: Hands-on with the Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600
Jason Hiner: CIOs hit the snooze button on Snow Leopard
Dennis Howlett: Jeffrey Walker: an Irregular farewell
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Vulnerable Adobe Flash shipped with Snow Leopard
Dancho Danchev: Scareware goes Green
Heather Clancy: Fujitsu certifies racks and towers for Energy Star 1.0 spec
Ryan Naraine: Patch Tuesday heads-up: Five 'critical' bulletins on tap
Mary Jo Foley: Bing and Ping (but not on Windows Live)
Harry Fuller: Geo-engineering: further discussion
ZDNet UK: Red Hat: Microsoft taking cloud back to the 80s
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iPhone users strangling the AT&T network
Matthew Miller: Sprint bringing HTC Hero to the US on 11 October
Andrew Nusca: Logitech debuts Squeezebox Radio, Touch network music players
Dana Blankenhorn: Small signs of a health care deal forming
Andrew Nusca: Samsung X Series thin-and-light: dual-core ULV, 9-hour battery
Dana Blankenhorn: We ferret out the latest flu questions
Andrew Nusca: Logitech Harmony 700 universal remote recharges, replaces six devices
Dana Blankenhorn: Young man yells at cloud
Christopher Dawson: Killer keyboards
Larry Dignan: App virtualization meets the mobile device
Jason Hiner: Look beyond the dollar signs to validate your projects
Rachel King: Corel releasing Digital Studio 2010 for PC