News to know: Bing-Twitter; Net Neutrality; eBay; VMWare; Nook; Win7
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Larry Dignan: Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing
- Sam Diaz: Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise, more clutter in search results
- Larry Dignan: Google CEO Schmidt: Microsoft's Bing-Twitter pact 'a smart deal for them'
- Garett Rogers: Google announces Social Search with Twitter
- Microsoft demos Twitter feeds in Bing
Doug Hanchard: Net Neutrality: Hit satire coming to a theatre near you
Larry Dignan: eBay 'cautiously optimistic' heading into the holidays, but outlook disappoints
Mitch Ratcliffe: Nook Clarified: Really solid progress for e-readers
Ed Bott: Windows 7: An impressive upgrade
Sam Diaz: Yahoo: Giving users a mobile experience, not a mobile OS
Tom Foremski: Legal dispute sheds light on how Gartner's "Magic Quadrant" is made up
Michael Krigsman: Gartner Magic Quadrant lawsuit: Sour grapes or real gripes?
Joe McKendrick: Gartner leaves SOA off 'top ten' list - again
David Morgenstern: Avoiding version confusion with Snow Leopard Server's diagnostic toolset
Web 2.0 Summit video: GE shows off mini ultrasound device
Jason D. O'Grady: Apple's bumper crop of fall hardware, reviewed
TR Dojo: Five must-have Firefox add-ons
Janice Chen: Canon EOS 5D Mark II firmware update to add broadcast and cinema frame rates
Dana Blankenhorn: Don't tase me in the chest, bro
Andrew Mager: Gowalla CEO Josh Williams on game mechanics, user experience, and competition
Harry Fuller: Can a car be fuel efficient and fun?
Jason D. O'Grady: iFixit: Disassembling the new MacBook unibody
Larry Dignan: Twitter CEO: Why he turned down Facebook
Harry Fuller: Brickbats over bricks
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards
CNET: Firefox's crossroads: Cutting-edge or mainstream?
Harry Fuller: Tracking the sun for more efficiency
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Dell: A few examples of what's wrong with your tech support
Dana Gardner: Global study: Hybrid model rules as cloud heats up, SaaS adoption blazing
Paula Rooney: Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Linux updates prepped as Win7 release nears
Matthew Miller: B&N Nook beats Amazon Kindle & Sony Reader, here's why
Dana Blankenhorn: Revolution gets $9 million and Nie
Windows 7 podcast: What will the upgrade cycle look like?
Heather Clancy: IBM adds to green consulting services
Dana Blankenhorn: mySQL starring as Peter Pan
Churchill Club podcast: An Evening with Michael Dell
Dana Gardner: Here's why Apple is doing so well -- it's the top half, stupid
Larry Dignan: CA jumps into eco software market; Plans to launch carbon tracking suite
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile announces 3G BlackBerry Bold 9700 with 624 MHz processor
Heather Clancy: Like frequent flyer points, but for energy reductions
Doug Hanchard: Global cyberwar: Installed in your PC at home, the office and government
Larry Dignan: SaaS: Shelfware as a service?
ZDNet Asia: Windows 95 wiped out last PC competition
CNET: Attackers could steal crypto keys from mobile devices
Larry Dignan: Retail distribution may tip e-reader race; Barnes & Noble rolls out Nook
Doug Hanchard: Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?
Andrew Nusca: Able Planet NC200 headphones offer active noise cancellation at bargain basement price [review]
Dan Kusnetzky: Site Uptime Network experiences
Larry Dignan: CyberThreats: Complacency abounds