News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
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Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player
Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over MySQL concerns
Andrew Nusca: Is it fair to criticize Google for the Gmail outage?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Gmail FAIL - What it says about Google and email in general
Sam Diaz: WSJ: YouTube and movie studios in talks over streaming rentals
WSJ: YouTube in Talks to Stream Rental Movies
Heather Clancy: Smart grid report from Lexington Institute explores benefits, pitfalls
- Harry Fuller: Geo-engineering drawing more and more attention
Andy Smith: Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers: a group test
Dan Kusnetzky: Doing the VMware Dance Day 3
- Paula Rooney: VMWare, Microsoft target SMBs with new virtual offerings
- Sam Diaz: Virtualization: a good idea but still some growing pains to consider
- Larry Dignan: Tinkering with the virtual desktop
Larry Dignan: Amazon knocks Google Book Settlement; Opposition (and some support) lines up
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Google Chrome ... one year on!
- Sheri McLeish: Google Chrome browser gets street cred from Sony
NYT: The Race to Be an Early Adopter of Technologies Goes Mainstream, a Survey Finds
Smart Planet: With electronic contact lenses, bionic eyesight could become reality
Tom Foremski: How a software engineer tried to save his sister and invented a breakthrough medical device
Jason Hiner: BackBlaze reveals how to build petabyte storage arrays for a 10th of the cost
BoomTown: Google and Others Fish for Acquisitions: Here's What They Might Be Looking For
Mitch Ratcliffe: AT&T's "problem" customers get the blame
Engadget: Sony announces VAIO X ultraportable
Joe McKendrick: Enterprise architecture is for entrepreneurs, too
Dion Hinchcliffe: Enterprise 2.0: Finding success on the frontiers of social business
Matthew Miller: HTC and Sony Ericsson announce WM 6.5 devices coming next month
Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0: answering some of the tough questions
Christopher Dawson: The best netbook ever?
Dana Gardner: Proper cloud adoption requires a governance support spectrum of technology, services, best practices
Heather Clancy: Omaha college teams with IBM for data center degree program
Mary Jo Foley: More Microsoft PDC 2009 sessions revealed
Jennifer Leggio: Foursquare: New apps, new businesses, nixed rumors... why aren't you playing yet?
Richard Koman: Telecoms want cheap spectrum, low standards
ZDNet UK: Microsoft calls for global patents
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Who is the 90-day Windows 7 Enterprise trial aimed at exactly?
Ed Burnette: Java Fast Sockets: Enabling high-speed Java communications on high performance clusters
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft steps up its business push for Windows 7, related products
Matthew Miller: Do people want or need social location (SoLo) services?
Dana Blankenhorn: Little Brother actively tracking the flu
Sam Diaz: NFL forbids play-by-play tweets during games. Good luck with that
Andrew Nusca: Sony announces 11.1" VAIO X ultraportable: Intel Atom, 1.5 lbs.
Jason D. O'Grady: Snow Leopards new Keyboard Viewer hints at tablet OS
Zack Whittaker: Should the anonymity shroud be lifted online?
Edible Apple: Apple responds to Psystar lawsuit, calls it a delaying tactic
Jennifer Bergen: AT&T actually offers iPhone customers the service they pay for?
Jason D. O'Grady: Pandora One desktop app revved to 2.0
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Snow Leopard launch seems to have been a smooth one
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft HealthVault service sheds its beta tag
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: HP Pavilion desktop, Seagate 1 TB HDD, Sennheiser headphones
Dana Blankenhorn: Will new Skype owners deal differently with open source?
CNet News: Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
Larry Dignan: IBM, Dell gain server share amid server sales carnage; HP share flat
Zack Whittaker: Bad ethics in the wild: Twitter spamming and site stealing
Matthew Miller: Nokia World 09: pricey netbook, downgraded N97, & confusing beta services
Andrew Nusca: Walmart recalls 4.2 million Durabrand DVD players
Janice Chen: Is the new Canon EOS 7D a Nikon D300s killer?
Andrew Nusca: USB 'SuperSpeed' 3.0 logos to appear on certified devices
Andrew Nusca: Toshiba debuts 640GB, 5400RPM portable hard drive
CNET: Yahoo Messenger 10 beta: A Skype rival?
Rachel King: Hands-On Review: The Promote Control
Dennis Howlett: Mid-range European ERP portending the future?
Andrew Nusca: Nokia's Booklet 3G price, stats revealed
Dana Blankenhorn: Red Hat seeks respect for JBoss and ecosystem
Andrew Nusca: Verizon debuts UMW190 global 3G modem for overseas data
ZDNet Asia: GPS device maps typically two years old
Andrew Nusca: NEC introduces standard-aspect ratio MultiSync EA190M LCD display
ZDNet UK: IBM launches cloud virtual desktop service
Jason D. O'Grady: Syncing with Dropbox
Tom Foremski: Burning Man and geek culture
Matthew Miller: Has Apple quelled smartphone buyer expectations for finished products?