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Larry Dignan: Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analytics
Mary Jo Foley: Could Verizon be a (or 'the') carrier for Microsoft's Pink?
Harry Fuller: Swine flu: gaia v. capitalism?
- Dancho Danchev: Swine flu email scams circulating
- Dana Blankenhorn: The cause of swine flu
- Reviewing your pandemic plans has just become job #1
Andrew Mager: Facebook Mobile copying Twitter: Subscribe to friends' status
Sam Diaz: RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifs
Larry Dignan: What would Larry Ellison do with Microsoft (it wouldn't be Vine)
Andrew Nusca: iPhone users don't use device for work, study says
Richard Koman: Antitrust investigation into Google book deal?
Sean Portnoy: Epson adds new 1080p LCD projectors to Ensemble HD Home Cinema System
Harry Fuller: Three groups in Western Hemisphere get MacArthurs
Ed Burnette: Firefox gets emergency update to fix the last update
Mary Jo Foley: More Windows 7 XP Mode questions and more Microsoft answers
Heather Clancy: Four companies join favored IT asset disposer list
Ryan Naraine: Adobe: Turn off JavaScript in PDF Reader
Jason Perlow: General Motors: It's Time for a Rebranding
Sam Diaz: Sun's disappointing Q3: Soon to be Oracle's problem
ZDNet UK: Tech giants form open cloud standards group
Larry Dignan: Dial-up Internet access: A fine business to milk?
John Morris: AMD Radeon HD 4770: Great graphics for $99
Ryan Naraine: Windows AutoRun gets a makeover to combat malware
Dana Gardner: Can software development aspire to the cloud?
Christopher Dawson: I haven't had a good rant recently
Jennifer Bergen: Best Buy to sell vinyl records?
Jason D. O'Grady: The netbook blacklash
Christopher Dawson: One policy to rule them all?
Podcast: Women Tech Executive Roundtable: What's Top of Mind in 2009
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Max memory limits for 64-bit Windows 7
Dana Blankenhorn: Health gets one-quarter of Obama science board seats
Kevin O'Marah: China and IP: the piper will get paid
Dana Blankenhorn: Everything on Facebook is an ad
Mary Jo Foley: Office 2007 Service Pack 2 available for download
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Time to give Adobe Reader the shove
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Skype sale, Dell Outlet clearance, Sony Blu-ray player, HP Officejet printer
Jason D. O'Grady: Apple is being accused of stifling free speech; again
Mary Jo Foley: 'Private cloud' = just another buzzword for on-premise datacenter?
Jason D. O'Grady: iPhone lite and mediapad rumored from Apple
- Jennifer Bergen: Apple iPhone lite, media pad coming soon to Verizon?
Michael Krigsman: Chuck Norris Syndrome and IT failure
Ed Burnette: Google: Upgrade now to Android 1.5 "Cupcake" SDK
Ryan Naraine: Exploit posted for brand-new Adobe PDF zero-day
Dana Blankenhorn: The campaign for real keyboards
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 on a netbook - My verdict
Larry Dignan: Zoho preps mobile suite
Heather Clancy: Intel still atop EPA green power list
CNET: Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 beta
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Hotmail blocking GMX mail for some in Europe
Larry Dignan: As the data center turns: IBM gets tight with Juniper, Brocade; Take that Cisco
Andrew Nusca: HP debuts ProBook laptops with preinstalled SuSE Linux
Matthew Miller: iPhone Quickoffice 1.1.1 update available, was the product released too early?
Zack Whittaker: Get involved: build me your perfect tech-filled house
Dan Kusnetzky: Partnership for Families - a Virtual Computer NxTop user profile
Matthew Miller: Android 1.5 available for installation on Android Developer Phone