News to know: Firefox patch; Windows 7; Facebook; RIM's app store
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Ryan Naraine: Mozilla plugs Firefox code execution holes
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft hedges its Windows 7 bets with new IE 8 'removal' option
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: IE now uninstallable from Windows 7
- EC ends full-time antitrust monitoring of Microsoft
- Will business users bite on Windows 7?
- What's inside Windows 7's Vault?
- Vista SP2 Release Candidate available to the public
- TechRepublic: 10 ways to protect yourself when you leave a job
Larry Dignan: Adobe: First quarter sales light, but cost cutting saves earnings
Heather Clancy: CDW snags certification for environmental management
- Forrester: VMware well positioned among enterprises and SMBs
- Dan Kusnetzky: Avocent - don't forget the underlying infrastructure
- How are you prioritizing Green IT investments?
Sam Diaz: Facebook's new look: Will it show us the money?
Jennifer Leggio: Facebook's fan page facelift diminishes brands
- Facebook: Improving Your Ability to Share and Connect
- TechCrunch: Facebook's Response To Twitter
- Blatant begging via Twitter is a bad 'best' practice
- ReadWriteWeb: Yahoo! Launches Major Challenge to Facebook Connect
- BlackBerry App World priced apps start at $2.99, sounds good to me
- VentureBeat: Juicing the BlackBerry: RIM wants back-end money from new apps
Dana Blankenhorn: GENIVI no threat to Microsoft in near term
- Gagging patients from online criticism
- Linux Foundation takes on Linux.com
- IBM in health reform optimists club
- The Open Road: Open-source guru Ruby leaving IBM for Microsoft
Jason O'Grady: Plethora of Apple software updates released (Airport and iLife)
- Gallery: Installing Mac OS X on a Dell Mini 9
- Sam Diaz: Apple kills rumor, handles desktop news exactly right
John Morris: Asus announces ultra-thin Eee PC, laptops
- Zack Whittaker: Microsoft and Lenovo: The ultimate academic PC
- Gallery: Ultimate Academic PCs (right)
- Kinglsey-Hughes: Are the new Apple iMacs a better deal than Dell and HP can offer?
RIM records all employee calls
Ed Burnette: Market Moves: Out with the free
Harry Fuller: Will we go Wheego?
Boy Genius Report: Verizon Wireless grills exiting customers about the iPhone
Oliver Marks: Interview with 'Us Now' collaboration film director
Matthew Miller: Hands-on image gallery and video of the Amazon iPhone Kindle software
- Larry Dignan: Is Amazon's Kindle iPhone app crippled or companion? CFO says companion
- Amazon's Kindle comes to the iPhone, iPod touch; More about convenience than Kindlenomics for now
- Ed Burnette: Did Amazon intentionally cripple the iKindle?
- Jason Perlow: All Kindles Should be Virtual
- Joe Brockmeier: Kudos to Amazon: A good first step with Kindle iPhone app
- Image Gallery: Amazon Kindle iPhone application brings Kindle content to your phone
Matthew Miller: Why does the Sprint Treo Pro get IE Mobile 6 on 15 March?
Andrew Nusca: The Pre will be Palm's downfall
The downside to corporate wireless plans
Paul Miller: Dame Wendy Hall talks about Web Science