News to know: Windows 7; Twitter; Satyam; Apple
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Ed Bott: How hard will it be to move to the Windows 7 Release Candidate?
- Gallery: Inside the Windows 7 Easy Transfer Utility
- Take a closer look at Windows 7's Jump List feature
Garett Rogers: Chrome is a browser? What's a browser?
Jennifer Leggio: Lesser of two security evils: Twitter Web or third-party clients?
- BNO News: 17-year-old claims responsibility for Twitter worm
- Twitter blog: Wily Weekend Worms
Jason O'Grady: The App Store's one billion app countdown
Oliver Marks: Tim Berners-Lee on the Next Web
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to start pushing IE 8 to existing IE users
BusinessWeek: Deconstructing Apple's Tiny iPod Shuffle
Bloomberg: Satyam Poised to Name Winning Bidder Today to Regain Confidence
Boy Genius Report: New Swiveling Nokia hitting Verizon Wireless?
Rough Type: Google in the middle
Heather Clancy: Saving energy in a flash. Solid state drives will be hot for keeping data centers cooler.
Dana Blankenhorn: The Microsoft defense brief
Sean Portnoy: Upgrades to $800 Moxi HD DVR boost streaming-media capabilities
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Dell Adamo teardown
MediaMemo: Did Amazon Really Fail This Weekend? …
Tom Foremski: HP bets on software as a strategy
Paul Murphy: Using open source to reduce business risk
Joe Brockmeier: Savory hacks the Kindle for ePub and PDF support
Jason Perlow: How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.
Jason Perlow: Frugal Friday: Conficker Strikes, Infrastructure Terrorism, Sun Microsystems, Debian BSD, Sourceforge
Chris Jablonski: Scientists accurately measure the 'edge of space'
Christopher Dawson: Even large institutions not immune to Conficker
Sam Diaz: Fiber sabotage reward jumps; more damage discovered
- Larry Dignan: Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer
- CNET: AT&T calls on Twitter during outage
Zack Whittaker: Facebook and the "red square of doom"
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WSJ: Jobs Maintains Grip at Apple
Harry Fuller: Is the "smart grid" a dumb idea?
Harry Fuller: Electric cars in America--the price point
Heather Clancy: As green as your partner: New IBM consulting service helps companies apply green credo to buying practices
Sam Diaz: HP files appeal in Cornell patent dispute case
Garett Rogers: Google isn't killing journalism, it's more of a suicide
EFF: Federal Authority Over the Internet? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009
Jennifer Bergen: Free Music Archive: Free MP3s, and yes, they're legal
Dana Blankenhorn: Can Google build open source communities
Jason D. O'Grady: Microsoft's third Laptop Hunters commercial - Lisa and Jackson
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Anatomy of Microsoft's "It's a PC" ads
Jason D. O'Grady: How-to: Upgrade the SSD in your Dell Mini 9 (Runcore to Runcore)
Mary Jo Foley: Hotmail inboxes: Here today, gone yesterday?
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source and the shrinking waterhole
Larry Dignan: Microsoft and Yahoo reportedly talking again
Dana Blankenhorn: Will Obama health IT committee give open source a chance?
Kevin O'Marah: Next big land rush: believe it or not, is knowledge management
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's next-generation Zunes: The end of the line?
Christopher Dawson: Tizag: best site for student-friendly coding
Christopher Dawson: Helping students build their brands
ZDNet UK: Researchers develop micro-robot
Michael Krigsman: Balancing IT innovation investment in a recession
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 build 7077
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Nintendo DS and DSi accessories, Canon camcorder, Able Planet noise-canceling headphones
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Making sense of the latest Conficker update
Larry Dignan: CFOs still glum: Your IT budgets will match
Dan Kusnetzky: Mark Angelo's post on Parallels and Symantec
Andrew Nusca: Weekend Gadget Guidance: Portable Ubuntu runs inside Windows, free
Jason Hiner: Five ways to lead your team to peak performance