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Mary Jo Foley: A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-like
Michael Krigsman: 5 steps to cut IT budgets wisely
- TechRepublic: 19 mistakes technical leaders make most often
10 classic clueless-user stories
Larry Dignan: Adobe lays off 600 workers, CS4 demand weaker than expected
Jason Perlow: Slicing up Sun
- Server sales slide; IBM, HP nearly tied for market share lead
- IDC: PC sales growth to slow as emerging markets struggle
Joe McKendrick: Mashups: No SOA required, but keep IT in the loop
- Dana Gardner: Active Endpoints beefs up visual SOA orchestration with added features and expanded OS support
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple's "install antivirus on your Mac" page is gone, but the idea lives on
Groklaw: Apple Tells Court It Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar; Adds New Claims, Including DMCA Violation
Who are the John Does that Apple is looking for?
- Apple: You're a fool if you believe our ads
- Andrew Nusca: Apple: Don't believe the iPhone 3G truth
- Jason O'Grady: Live TV coming to the iPhone
- Matthew Miller: Pandora rocks its way to the top of the iPhone App Store, reviewers get a break
Techmeme: Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work.
Almost every Windows PC contains at least one insecure program
- Jason O'Grady: Apple removes anti-virus recommendation
- Adam O'Donnell: Drexel students hijack online poll, get underwear
- Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's Live Search (finally) adds malware warnings
Silicon Alley Insider: Icahn: I Would Vote Against Miller's Yahoo Takeover (YHOO)
Sam Diaz: Yahoo headlines: What's fact and what's rumor?
Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT
- Joe Brockmeier:Creative Commons needs help with "non-commercial use"
- Paula Rooney: Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Will open source still love you when I'm 64?
- Will Nokia use Linux in future high end phones?
Forrester: Extranet collaboration platforms - coming soon, but many-to-many problem remains
Brian Sommer: Kudos for a good research approach
Photos: Capturing a Cy Young winner's 'freaky' motion (right)
Sean Portnoy: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: High-end home theater setups
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Just Bought An HDTV? Are You Now Ready To Buy a 3DTV?
Tom Foremski: Car makers could learn from chip industry and unleash a wave of innovation
- Harry Fuller: In greentech as in the real world: you get big, you get enemies
- It's getting worse out there
- Heather Clancy: White paper: Green IT is not just about power consumption
- Roland Piquepaille: Nuclear technology to beat world hunger?
Webware: New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into illegal free-for-all
Gizmodo: Barack Obama Uses a Zune
ReadWriteWeb: Stores Clueless About Mobile Barcode Scanning Applications?
Andrew Nusca: Should you run your laptop on battery or charger power?
- With new competition, T-Mobile slashes G1 prices in UK
- Information Age landmark: One billionth mouse produced
- Is Sprint watching you?
Sam Diaz: Comcast to launch meter to track Web usage
- IPod shortage for the holidays?
- Cyber Monday spending jumps 15 percent. What happened to bah humbug economy?
Deb Perelman: Nobody works for a dollar
Ed Burnette: Java SE 6 update 11 is out, 64-bit support still lacking
Bits: Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook
Dana Blankenhorn: Hospitals may want to upgrade their WiFi
Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel
RIM warns for the third quarter; Blames Bold, Storm slippage, weak Loonie