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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
10 classic clueless-user stories
Larry Dignan: Adobe lays off 600 workers, CS4 demand weaker than expected
Jason Perlow: Slicing up Sun
Joe McKendrick: Mashups: No SOA required, but keep IT in the loop
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?
Techmeme: Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work.
Almost every Windows PC contains at least one insecure program
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
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 Foremski: Car makers could learn from chip industry and unleash a wave of innovation
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?
Sam Diaz: Comcast to launch meter to track Web usage
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