News to know: Best hardware; Malware; Netbooks; Social CRM

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Paul Greenberg: Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09

Dancho Danchev: EyeWonder malware incident affects popular web sites

• Manchester City Council pays $2.4m in Conficker clean up costs

John Morris: Cheaper ultraportables meet more powerful netbooks

Brian Sommer: Bleak Xmas Ahead: Where's the innovation I need to fill the stockings?

Matthew Miller: Review: RIM BlackBerry Handsfree Visor Mount Speakerphone

WSJ: Crunch Time: How Tough Is Tech?

Rachel King: Five tips to better beach pictures

Mark Cuban: When you succeed with Free, you are going to die by Free

Ed Burnette: Android set to launch in Japan, 1.5 deployment "nearly complete"

• Matthew Miller: Archos Google Android-based Internet Media Tablet to be revealed 15 September
• Unwired View: First Sony Ericsson Xperia (X5?)  Android phone “Rachael”, and strange “Kiki” with transparent display

Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

• How-to: Reset a noisy optical drive in the Mid-2009 MacBook Pro
• Episode 113: PowerPage Podcast
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple issues "common sense" heat advice for iPhone 3G/3G S

• Windows 7 pricing: Some users fume as the rose-colored discounts fade

• Larry Dignan: Fun with numbers (browser and search share) a boon for StatCounter

• NYT: Apple, Acer and...Arrington?
• Christopher Dawson: Is the Crunchpad an education game-changer?

Is Michael Jackson telling us not to use Google Apps?

Garett Rogers: Google Voice is now even better

Paul Murphy: Microsoft gets something right! Well, maybe.

Top 10 videos of the year (so far)

Heather Clancy: Green IT tips for small businesses: Analysys moves data center offsite for big power savings

• Price cuts for Innergie universal power adapters
• From iPhones to smart grid sensors

• Matthew Miller: Celebrate 4th of July on your smartphone with Handmark Fireworks
• Vote in TechRepublic's mock election for 'President of the Internet'
• Dennis Howlett: 4th July fun: Cloud confusion
• GigaOm: America's Secret Innovation Weapon: Immigration

Dana Blankenhorn: Will security paranoia kill wireless health IT?

• With clouds license arguments become fog

Jason Perlow: Frugal Friday: Optimum Ultra and DOCSIS 3.0, Crapware, When to replace a PC, Engine Yard and Ruby on Rails

Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: 60 GB Apple iPod, 250 GB Archos 5, Logitech keyboard and mouse combo

TechRepublic: IT hiring and salaries are down

Sean Portnoy: Sonos touchscreen remote on the way?

Joe McKendrick: Oracle's FusionFest: BEA underneath, dogfood, Sun on the horizon

• Dana Gardner: Oracle Fusion 11g Middleware: Executed according to plan

Harry Fuller: Biofuel fraud exposes some big names

• "Organic" Marketing melarky, not scientific term
• Hollywood celebrity explains her West Virginia expedition