News to know: Goldman's IT; Kindle 2; Google; Microsoft

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Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut'

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  Whitepaper: How IT helped Goldman Sachs step back from the mortgage mess
• Cost Calculator: Building a stress-testing system

Mary Jo Foley: In Apple's footsteps: Google licenses Microsoft ActiveSync

• Matthew Miller: Google Mobile Sync for iPhone syncs Google Contacts and Calendar data
• Nokia Maps 3.0 beta updated with sync support and more device compatibility

• Report: Intel cancels IDF Taiwan 2009

• Mozilla chief backs Opera's browser-bundling complaint against Microsoft

Larry Dignan: Amazon's Kindle 2: 5 burning questions

• Jason Perlow: Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve Jobs

• Amazon Kindle 2 Up Close and Personal
• Jason O'Grady: Kindle 3 should be an iPhone app
• Matthew Miller: Existing Kindle owners to the front of the line please
• M-Edge announces Kindle 2.0 cases and booklight
• Live from New York: Amazon's Kindle 2.0
• Dana Blankenhorn: Time for Kindle to go open source
• Gallery: Amazon releases Kindle 2.0
• Techmeme

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 Starter Edition on a netbook ... Non-Starter if you ask me!

• Ryan Stewart: The mulitouch future of RIAs

• Strong IT architecture doubly important in tough economic times, says Open Group panel

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Five favorite iPhone photo apps

• Are you looking at other vendors? Absolutely!!

• Turn your iPhone into a Web server

• Ed Burnette: How to stifle innovation

• Kaspersky denies leaks after SQL hack

• Will talking stop the flow of hot air and CO2?

• Phil Wainewright: Cloud and the European SaaS provider

• Health IT in both versions of the stimulus

• Can this man build the video PSTN?

• Psystar scores small but significant win against Apple