News to know: Windows 7; Top student laptops; Facebook; Larry Page's commencement speech
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Ed Bott: How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7?
Larry Page's fine commencement speech.
Andrew Nusca: Dads & Grads: Top 10 laptops for college students, class of '09
Brian Sommer: An ERP Product Line in 18 months? NetSuite and Rootstock did it
- Dana Gardner: BriefingsDirect analysts unpack PaaS and predict future impact on enterprises and developers
Mary Jo Foley: Hosted CRM, ERP: Another Microsoft and Oracle battleground in the making
- Paul Murphy: Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams
- Dennis Howlett: Oracle's cloudy announcements
- Your next software buying decision: zero cost?
- SAP users fight back over support price hikes
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hands on: Windows 7 'XP Mode'
Gallery:Hands on: Windows 7 'XP Mode'
- Foley: Microsoft's 'new' XP policy for netbooks isn't new
- Get your Windows 7 GPU drivers
- Ed Bott: Windows 7 setup secrets
Zack Whittaker: Windows Azure: a very difficult concept explained
Jason Perlow: Presto! In ten seconds, you've got an Internet desktop.
AMR Research: Atoms or electrons: How does Hasbro make money?
Sean Portnoy: Monster vs. Vampires: Cutting down home theaters' wasted energy
NYT: Tinker Away, Facebook Says
Andrew Mager: Seesmic Desktop delivers seamless Facebook integration
Tom Foremski: The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and media
Dana Blankenhorn: The Android name kerfluffle
NPR: The Secret Of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed
Sam Diaz: Don't discount BYO as factor in RIM's long-term hold on enterprise
Tech vendors: We're ready to help you spend Obama's stimulus money
Boy Genius Report: Best Buy to trial launch Palm Pre on June 7th
Reuters: Cyber chief needs to be in White House: experts
Market Beat: Buffett Sees ‘Unending Losses’ for Many Newspapers
Ryan Naraine: Adobe plugs hole in Flash Media Server
Network World: LexisNexis says its data was used by fraudsters
Michael Krigsman: Senate introduces valuable and significant IT watchdog bill
BoomTown: Who Shot Valleywag? Gossip Bloggers Thomas (Outgoing) and Tate (Incoming) Speak!
Richard Koman: Pirate Bay verdict dismissed safe harbors, comparison with Google
Heather Clancy: Intel intros new data center management utility software
- Thinking rationally. Some ideas from IBM about consolidating data centers
- Joe McKendrick: SOA equals 'private cloud' -- IBM makes it official
Jennifer Leggio: The Twitter Conference: One great reason to go
Sean Portnoy: Sony denies abandoning OLED TV market
Andrew Mager: Follow Friday: Essential Webbies
Garett Rogers: Get free business cards from Google
- Christopher Dawson: OK, I lied...I have to point out Google Public Data
- Swine Flu tracking? There's an app for that
- Could Disney's investment in Hulu upset the iTunes applecart?
- Open source brings the litigators against Apple
- Kingsley-Hughes: Linux clients break 1% web usage share