News to know: T-Mobile; Cloud computing; Oracle; HP; Apple
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Andrew Nusca: HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV?
- HP Elite 7000 business desktop PC offers Core i5 and i7; clad in metal, black
- HP's new ProBook Windows 7 business laptops have drain in keyboard that saves PC, not pants, from spills
- Compaq offers 15.6-in. Windows 7 laptop for $399; mini-tower desktop, $309
- Compaq offers 500B, 505B budget desktop PCs; start at $359
Phil Wainewright: The cloud: no place for amateurs
- Dennis Howlett: SaaS Customer Bill of Rights: right thing, right time
Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile Sidekick data outage tests mettle of 800,000 customers, carrier
- Matthew Miller: T-Mobile offers Sidekick customers $100 credit, is that enough to retain them all?
- Jason Perlow: In the aftermath of the T-Mobile Chernobyl
- CNet News: T-Mobile halts sales of Sidekick
- T-Mobile says Sidekick data may yet return
- Gizmodo: T-Mobile Lets Furious Sidekick Users Ditch Their Contracts for Free
- T-Mobile 'everything unlimited' plan to offer voice, SMS, MMS, data for $50?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Has the Snow Leopard bug hosed your data?
Michael Krigsman: Oracle's integration strategy: Customer trade-offs
Jason Hiner: McNealy zings iPhone, laments the PC, claims Sun started open source
- Sam Diaz: Oracle OpenWorld: Getting down to business
- Brian Sommer: What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week
- Dennis Howlett: SAP and Oracle going head to head
Larry Dignan: Google-Apple boards of directors no longer linked
Christopher Dawson: Google Wave: Begging for a classrom
Zack Whittaker: Cloud storage vs. flash storage: Security vs. simplicity
Salesforce.com, Dell target SMBs
Heather Clancy: Upcoming energy efficiency research from Pew will provide corporate benchmarks
Joe McKendrick: 'Lean IT': another buzzphrase for something we've been trying to do all along?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Technology is great, it's us that's flawed!
CNet News: Downed Facebook accounts still haven't returned
Dave Greenfield: 7 Ways to Boost Your Productivity By Playing Online
Andrew Nusca: HP reveals 'Beats Limited Edition' Envy 15 laptop
- Man drops active Palm Pre in cold beer; lives to tell tale
- HTC Hero now on sale on Sprint: Palm Pre or HTC Hero?
- Accessories reveal that RIM BlackBerry Storm 2 (9550) just around the corner
- New Windows Phone ad an alternate universe where Office is your friend
- With new tech support biz, Florence Henderson will help your parents learn the computer
Technologizer: Windows Vista: A Review Recap
Tom Foremski: The key to understanding Google - CEO admits it is a media company
Dana Blankenhorn: Why the big Android bandwagon?
VentureBeat: Only 17 venture capital firms raise money in Q3 — fewest in 15 years
Janice Chen: DSLR remote iPhone app adds Nikon D300s support, fixes compatiblity issues
David Morgenstern: Useful Mac Mail tips
Are Mac OS X and Apple servers making inroads with the Feds?
Rachel King: Photoshop releases an iPhone app
Howlett: The case of the missing iPhone 3GS's
Jennifer Leggio: Quick'n'Dirty Podcast: Lucky number 18 and hashtag chats
Yahoo plots app mall, app portability through its properties
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Gateway desktop, Kodak EasyShare digital camera, Garmin nuvi GPS
ArsTechnica: 100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words
NYT: Lufthansa Bringing Back Onboard Wi-Fi
Nusca: Aliph Jawbone Prime Bluetooth headset sets bar on style, customization, quality
Perot Systems acquires BearingPoint's China consulting unit
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