News to know: Windows 7; U.S. CTO; Quickoffice; Ubuntu
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Brian Sommer: The immediacy of value: Where SaaS must go next
Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 Release Candidate due date is May 5
- Ed Bott: Mark your calendars: Windows 7 RC to go public on May 5
- Foley: Former Microsoft MacBU chief now running entertainment client software
- Zack Whittaker: Office 2010: new logo, Outlook, and user interface
Matthew Miller: Quickoffice for iPhone arrives in the App Store
Image gallery: Quickoffice for iPhone has a couple major limiting issues (right)
Digits: Tech Industry Cheers as Obama Taps Aneesh Chopra for CTO
- Dana Blankenhorn: What Chopra offers open source
- Health IT gets a friend at the top in Aneesh Chopra
Dion Hinchcliffe: Google's cloud gets ready for the enterprise
Phil Fersht: The flat of the curve: are we scared of innovation?
Zack Whittaker: The rise and fall of the web pirateer
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Run Ubuntu inside Windows with Portable Ubuntu
- Jennifer Leggio: Twitter's celebrity appeal: Growth model or downward spiral?
- Jennifer Bergen: Tweetie: iPhone Twitter client coming soon to a Mac near you
- Christopher Dawson: Does Ashton Kutcher kill Twitter's credibility?
- Mitch Ratcliffe: It's all downhill for Twitter, politics from here
Apple tops PC makers in customer experience survey
Michael Krigsman: Ugly enterprise software sales tactics
Larry Dignan: Intel preps chips for thin, light notebooks; Is it roping off Atom?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's 'Bulldog' MDM: New test build coming in May
- Dana Gardner: HP teams with Microsoft, VMware to expand appeal of desktop virtualization solutions
- Dan Kusnetzky: Notes from the VMware Partner Event - Virtualization a tool for difficult times
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The Pirate Bay torpedoed
Christopher Dawson: PowerPoint 101
Sean Portnoy: D-Link introduces new PowerLine HD kit for network-capable home theater devices
Oliver Marks: PlayStation - The Perils of Secrecy: is it Game Over?
Harry Fuller: Britain tries to electricify its auto industry
Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile announces 3G-enabled Sidekick LX
Matthew Miller: Sorry Android fans, 21 April T-Mobile event focused on Sidekick LX
- T-Mobile Sidekick LX photos
- MobileTechRoundup show #169, Nokia E75, Viliv S5, HP dv2, and S60 Twitter clients
Dana Blankenhorn: Health records and the KISS of life
- Do not call him the Craigslist killer
- Common public license merged into Eclipse
- Washington state rejects open source
- How open source got its wings
Chris Jablonski: Pediatric dentists create Game Boy with nitrous oxide feed
Larry Dignan: Unisys has looming debt, credit pickle