News to know: $99 iPhone; AMD; Bing; Firefox 3.5; Data Domain
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Jason Perlow: $99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer Experience
- Jason D. O'Grady: AT&T's $200 early upgrade fee & iPhone eligibility
Tom Foremski: AMD grabs "impressive" market share from Intel in Q1
Mary Jo Foley: We're not in Omaha any more: Microsoft's Bing share on the rise
- Larry Dignan: My Bing experiment: Can it be the default search engine?
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Schmidt: Bing Has Not Changed What Google Is Doing
Paula Rooney: Mozilla pushes out Firefox 3.5 Preview
Larry Dignan: EMC CEO Tucci pens dear Data Domain workers letter
David Morgenstern: Apple vs. Microsoft: Yet another upgrade pricing fiasco
- The 'incredible' growth of the Mac
- Sam Diaz: Mac prices: Bargains to some, still too high for others
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iPhone - Cool goes mass market
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?
Sam Diaz: Billboard for WWDC is torn down; startup smells rotten Apple
Christopher Dawson: ARRA grants will have a focus on collaboration, meaningful PD
Ryan Naraine: Adobe patches 13 critical Reader, Acrobat vulnerabilities
Sam Diaz: Google Apps: With Outlook sync, feel free to dump Exchange
Andrew Nusca: Cool-er e-book reader has value, barebones appeal [review]
Christopher Dawson: New software enables communication for students with severe disabilities
Sean Portnoy: Harman Kardon introduces its first Blu-ray player for $499
Jennifer Bergen:MoGo Talk super slim Bluetooth headset for iPhone
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sheds its third-party anti-piracy technology
Sam Diaz: Facebook to launch vanity URLs - because that's really what we need
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Magellan GPS, Klipsch home theater, Sharp AQUOS HDTV
Heather Clancy: Me too! ZigBee low-power spec also gets nod from health alliance
Jennifer Leggio: Squarespace: Stop harshing my Twitter experience
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Big Brains: Wael Bahaa-El-Din
David Morgenstern: ZFS support falls off of Snow Leopard Server's feature list?
Jennifer Bergen: Sony to cut PS3 price by $100 in August?
Dancho Danchev: Cybercriminals hijack Twitter trending topics to serve malware
ZDNet UK: Court hears NASA hacker 'at risk of psychosis'
Sam Diaz: Wolfram Alpha releases major update; keeps refining
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Should Vista users get a Windows 7 upgrade for $29?
Heather Clancy: Prove it. Verdiem adds sustainability dashboard to enterprise power management software
Jason D. O'Grady: Why AT&T won't support MMS and tethering on the iPhone 3GS
Joe McKendrick: SOA as 'iTunes for business': interesting analogy
Larry Dignan: IBM takes social networking to its channel partners
Christopher Dawson: Med students should be editing, not using, Wikipedia
Matthew Miller: What's this? Nokia showing US buyers some N97 love
Andrew Nusca: New Averatec 25.5-in. all-in-one offers PC, TV combo for $999
Richard Koman: Court says Pirate Bay judge not biased
Dana Gardner: Greenplum speeds creation of 'self-service' data warehouses with Enterprise Data Cloud release
Andrew Nusca: NEC debuts duo of 24-in. MultiSync 16:10 widescreen displays
Andrew Nusca:Subscription-free 4.7-in. Magellan RoadMate 1475T GPS, $299
Heather Clancy: Dell adds 7 states to Goodwill recycling program
Andrew Nusca: HP slashes prices on dv2, dv3, dv6 laptops; aims for college students
Rachel King: 5 tips for better photos with point-and-shoot cameras
ZDNet UK: Juniper revs Ethernet to 100Gbps
Richard Koman: China defends 'healthy development' of spyware
CNET: Apple: Next Mac OS X unlocks chip power
James Farrar: Airlines on Climate: Don't blame us blame the Banks
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Safari 4 - "The world's fastest browser" ... NOT!
Matthew Miller: Like the G1, the battery seems to be the Palm Pre's Achilles heel
Larry Dignan: Forrester survey: Enterprises taking aim at legacy apps
Dan Kusnetzky: Barriers to Entry
Larry Dignan: Smart People: Alex Bayen, Professor, Systems Engineering, UC Berkeley