News to know: SXSW; Verizon 4G; Motorola Android search; iPhone 4.0; Apple iPad
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Jennifer Leggio: SXSW preview: Social business content management made easier
Rachel King: Verizon announces it will debut a 4G handset by mid-2011
Larry Dignan: Motorola deploys Microsoft's Bing on Android smartphones in China
Andrew Nusca: Report: iPhone 4.0 software to support multitasking
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will Apple backtrack on iPhone multitasking?
Matthew Miller: Apple iPad: To pre-order or not to pre-order?
- Jason Perlow: Apple iPad: We've reached Star Trek-nology
Jason D. O'Grady: iPhone 4.0 to include background apps?
Joel Evans: B&N to offer up an eReader version for iPad
Andrew Mager: PayPal, Microsoft team up with Foursquare to Save The Children
Rachel King: Western Digital debuts My Passport AV portable media drive; starts at $109.99
Sam Diaz: Through app stores, SMBs customize tools and pave way for enterprise
- Christopher Dawson: Is the Apps Marketplace just playing catchup to Microsoft?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft readies open-source analytics framework for Silverlight
Heather Clancy: Accenture survey: Vehicle buyers won't sacrifice comfort, convenience just to buy green car
David Morgenstern: Fusion vs. Parallels Takedown: The movie
Garett Rogers: Google TV: How it could change things
Jason D. O'Grady: iPhone users mourn AT&T's loss of NFL
Jason D. O'Grady: iPad pre-orders begin at 5:30am PT, Friday
Sean Portnoy: Intel Core i7-980X six-core "Gulftown" CPU gets reviewed, benchmarked. Verdict: Fastest desktop processor ever.
Ryan Naraine: Advanced Persistent Threats: Should your panties be in a bunch, and how do you un-bunch them?
Larry Dignan: Google makes its local shopping move
Doug Hanchard: EFF: Smart meters pose threat to privacy
Jason Hiner: Can Google do for cloud apps what Apple did for smartphone apps? [podcast]
ZDNet UK: Judges uphold Word patent-infringement ruling
Andrew Nusca: AT&T completes 100-Gigabit Ethernet field trial with Cisco gear
Michael Krigsman: CRM and IT failure: An enlightened view
Doug Hanchard: Electronic Frontier Foundation links net neutrality to copyright
Rachel King: Stihl calendar blends both analog, digital forms; tears its own pages
Andrew Nusca: Hewlett-Packard launches $40 million ad campaign: 'Let's do amazing'
Larry Dignan: The ultra-light laptop conundrum: Weak processors
Rachel King: OCZ introduces 32GB Onyx SSD in the sub-$100 category
Christopher Dawson: Apps Roulette #1: Expensify
Doug Hanchard: Bill Clinton + Bill Gates = Global Health Initiative
Larry Dignan: Yahoo's fate becomes a battleground among analysts
Ed Bott: Poll: Which office software suite have you chosen?
Ryan Naraine: Is that a bot in your pocket? Or does it just look like one?
Rachel King: DigitalRev TV publishes video guide to painting a DSLR pink
Doug Hanchard: UK report on Guantanamo Bay: Connecting the dots is hard to do
Christopher Dawson: Opera Mini 5 on Android: Why?
Doug Hanchard: Homeland Security hearing: Senators scratching heads over IT-related testimony
Matthew Miller: Opera Mini 5 beta comes to the Google Android platform
CNET: Target offers mobile coupons
Doug Hanchard: TSA to deploy 150 new body scanner machines
Rachel King: Asus unveils Cine5 compact five-channel PC speaker
Heather Clancy: EnerNOC takes an integrated approach to energy management
Dana Blankenhorn: Google Health is not at all well
Rachel King: Toshiba developing a line of tablet computers to launch by 2011
Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft offers a Sophie's Choice
Heather Clancy: Faronic spruces up security for power management software
Dennis Howlett: Price gouging: the currency game
ZDNet Asia: Browser choice not coming to Asia
Doug Hanchard: Next U.S. disaster: Is private sector prepared? Sort of, maybe - and no
Larry Dignan: First Data names Forehand CEO; Capellas steps back
Zack Whittaker: Generation Y: 'Banks, do better, and we want an easy life too'
Dan Kusnetzky: CA acquires Nimsoft, the buying spree continues
Larry Dignan: Smart Planet: Busting hurricanes with ocean cooling pumps
Rachel King: Sony PlayStation Move motion controllers to launch this fall