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By | May 8, 2008, 2:08am PDT

Summary: Notable headlines: Jason O’Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery (right). Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition — from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD continue to blame Intel for its failures? Bill Detwiler: IT must prepare for $200-a-barrel oil and a rise in remote workers Jason Perlow: Geek Sheet: [...]

Notable headlines:

Jason O’Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem
Gallery (right).

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition — from Sun

News.com: AMD revises server road map

Bill Detwiler: IT must prepare for $200-a-barrel oil and a rise in remote workers

Jason Perlow: Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery

Phil Wainewright: Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe

Boomtown: Microsoft’s Project Granola-Facebook Tastier Than Yahoo?

Inside Facebook: Facebook Profile Redesign - Detailed Specs & First ImpressionsBits: Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune

News.com: Microsoft denies putting ‘copyright cop’ in Zune

Jason O’Grady: Gallery: Psystar System Profile (below)

Michael Krigsman: Government IT failures: “Room for improvement” [interview and podcast]

TechRepublic: The Choice command is back in Windows Vista

Dennis Howlett: Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict

News.com: Can SlideShare make PowerPoint sharing interesting?

Rik Fairlie: D-Link (finally) releases the DSM-750 media extender

Roland Piquepaille: UAVs will study Californian smog

Gallery: Gifts for the geeky mom (right)

Infoworld: Internet Archive challenges FBI’s secret records demand

Silicon Alley Insider: News Corp. Web Unit Sees Revenue Drop, Admits It Won’t Hit FY 08 Goals

Richard Koman: Archive.org fights FBI demand for user info — and wins

Heather Clancy: SynapSense gets a grip on your data center’s environmental profile

JavaOne ‘08: Sun brings back Java applets

Sun CTO previews JavaFX-powered game

Sun wants consumers to innovate

Midmarket IT folks: Belles of the conference circuit

John Morris: New Gateway desktops, more 64-bit Windows Vista Kingsley-Hughes: Gateway makes the leap to 64-bit Vista

Kingsley-Hughes: Where’s your federal tax “economic stimulus” going?

DSL Reports: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

Dana Blankenhorn: Always-on boosted by British government study

Andrew Nusca: HDTVs: How black is black?

Larry Dignan: WiMax saved: Sprint, Clearwire form joint venture; Google, Intel among backers

Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe

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