News to know: Hitachi, Motorola woes; SAP suite; Skype 4.0; Dell virtualization deal
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Andrew Nusca: Hitachi posts $4.1 billion quarterly loss
Larry Dignan: Motorola's mobile device revenue tanks in fourth quarter
Dennis Howlett: SAP to announce Business Suite 7
- Larry Dignan: SAP tries to make latest suite easier to digest
Andrew Nusca: Skype 4.0 released, with full-screen video calling
Sam Diaz: Dell cuts deal to expand data center virtualization
Jason D. O'Grady: Apple may allow iPhone apps to run in the background
Garett Rogers: Google Earth: Now in 4D
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ordered my first Dell ...
Larry DIgnan: VMware launches open source virtual desktop software; Assessing the fallout
Jason D. O'Grady: Multi-touch on the G1 (despite Apple's patent)
Joe McKendrick: A 'service-oriented architecture' for data makes sense
Christopher Dawson: The Classmate goes on a new adventure
jason D. O'Grady: Firefox 3.0.6 for Mac now available
Christopher Dawson: New Google Earth features host of educational tools
Larry Dignan: Google on trial in Italy: Should it prevent video publication without consent?
Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft hiding in its Skybox in the cloud?
IT Dojo: Five signs that you aren't cut out to be a support tech
Adam O'Donnell: The psychological impact of false positives
Brian Sommer: Got Capital? Lumigent got plenty in a rough market
Zack Whittaker: Microsoft Semblio makes its debut; it won't take off
Harry Fuller: The future could be a gas with Carbon Science
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's Windows 7 line-up: The good, the bad and the ugly
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 editions ... too many, too few or just right?
- Ed Bott: Microsoft simplifies the Windows 7 lineup
- Easy Windows 7 upgrades could earn Microsoft billions a year extra
Matthew Miller: Keep dreaming and hoping, we won't see an Apple tablet anytime soon
Dave Greenfield: Gmail Gets Move To and Auto-Complete
- Sam Diaz: Gmail gets updates, shortcuts
Matthew Miller: Cage match: Windows Mobile vs. Google Android
Jason Perlow: You know the economy is really bad when the Stollen is Stolen
Christopher Dawson: Is it possible to build a $20 laptop?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Seagate writes off $2.2bn Maxtor goodwill
Andrew Nusca: IAC misses analyst views; Ask.com unit revenue sinks 19%
Oliver Marks: Collaboration & Partnerships in Orbit
Robin Harris: Quantum holographic storage: it works!
Andrew Nusca: Quicken online goes offline for several hours
Mary Jo Foley: Can the cloud save Windows Mobile?
Dana Blankenhorn: SkyOS faces choice of go open source or go away
Andrew Nusca: What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture
David Morgenstern: Microsoft vs. Apple: Beware of your 'killer instinct'
Michael Krigsman: A tale of consulting arrogance
Matthew Miller: Motorola CEO states Windows Mobile 7 coming in 2010, is that too late for Microsoft?
Dan Kusnetzky: Parallels' Summit 2009 Other Keynotes
Janice Chen: Best of the new Nikon Coolpix announcements
Andrew Nusca: Toshiba's iPhone-slayer: TG01 touchscreen smartphone debuts
Dana Blankenhorn: Disrupting rush to the medical home model
- Alzheimer's is diabetes of the brain?
- Can Everyblock find a business model in open source?
- VMWare delivers open source client
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Building an Intel Core i7 system just got cheaper
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile G1 RC33 update rolling out OTA, not the cupcake update
Dan Kusnetzky: Parallels' Summit 2009 Serguei Beloussov Keynote
Heather Clancy: U.S. wields larger influence on sustainable companies list