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Sam Diaz: Facebook responds to redesign concerns; Changes are coming

Mary Jo Foley: VMware picks up yet another former Softie

• Microsoft IP Chief's new tell-all doesn't tell all that much

CIO Sessions: Gerri Martin-Flickinger, CIO, Adobe

Dancho Danchev: Study: IE8's SmartScreen leads in malware protection

Matthew Miller: iPhone 3.0 Beta 1 walkthrough

• Clash of the Touch Titans; iPhone 3G 3.0 vs. Palm Pre
• Jennifer Bergen: iPhone dominates in mobile Web traffic, Android already on its way up

Sam Diaz: Google's search upgrades: Good or evil?

• Google: Two new improvements to Google results pages
• Search Engine Land: Google Implements ‘Orion’ Technology, Improves Search Refinements & Adds Longer Snippets
• Andrew Nusca: Twitter improves SEO; may become your top hit on Google
• China reportedly blocks YouTube access
• BusinessWeek: Palm's Secret Weapon for the Pre

Gallery: Cameras and camcorders spring preview 2009

• Gartner: Businesses don't need to wait for Windows 7 SP1
• Robin Harris: Inside a Microsoft data center

• Beware of the "premium" netbook cash grab

Is Dell too late for the smartphone party?

• Larry Dignan: Michael Dell's smartphone hints: A show about nothing
• Dell: IBM-Sun talk creates business opportunity

• Wozniak joins DeepDyve advisory board; is deep web the final frontier?

TechTrader Daily: Red Hat Jumps On Rumors Oracle Might Bid

GigaOm: Skype, Now the Largest Long-distance Phone Company

Christopher Dawson: Could Zeebo be the next OLPC?

• How do you convince teachers that Twitter isn't a waste of time?
• Zack Whittaker: Q'n'A: Keeping the conversati
  ons flowing

• Jason Perlow: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11: Lots of Tech but Short on Polish
• Gallery (right)

• Who owns the word "pod?"
• iPhone 2.0 keyboard hack, sans jailbreak

• What does Europe have against GPLv3?