News to know: Google; iBotnet; Cisco; Microsoft
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Larry Dignan: Google earnings deliver; Sales growth slows; Economy still in 'uncharted territory'
- Statement: GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 2009 RESULTS
- CNet News: YouTube signs Sony, redesigns site for professional content
Ryan Naraine: iBotnet: Researchers find signs of zombie Macs
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Not even Apple can protect the dumbest users from themselves
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases its CCI tools under an open-source license
- Five things to know about Microsoft future plans for Forefront
- More Microsoft competitors join European browser-bundling antitrust case
- Ed Bott: Will Windows 7 be Microsoft's biggest business hit ever?
Sam Diaz: Cisco takes Letterman-style approach to push Unified Computing System savings
NYT: N.S.A.'s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress
Forrester blog: Hello People, BlackBerry is the killer enterprise device today
Ed Burnette: IBM passes open source license baton to Eclipse
Gallery: Nine more Firefox add-ons to try
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: What Price Bandwidth? Time Warner Cable Should Not Back Off
Richard Koman: TWC defends tiered pricing, while one DSL provider is happy to pick up fleeing customers
Dennis Howlett: Enterprise vendors: in pursuit of reality
- Michael Krigsman: Combating IT failure with mentoring
- Joe McKendrick: Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?
- SOA may be taking the risk out of cloud computing
- Gauging the virtualization suites: A close race
- Download TechRepublic's 'Ninja Guide' to IT cost cutting
Joe Brockmeier: Yet another "Mac vs. PC" article that misses the point
- Steinert-Threlkeld: What Price Time? The Factor That Decides If Either Mac or PC Is Cool
- Jason O'Grady: Mac OS 10.5.7 update imminent
- Front-facing video camera spotted in Apple patent application
- Andrew Nusca: Apple: 'PC is no bargain when it doesn't do what you want'
- Hide your iPod, the tax man cometh
Andrew Mager: Tweetmeme: Faster, more viral than Digg
- Silicon Alley Insider: Excel-Lookalike Twitter Client Helps You Goof Off At Work
Diaz: iTunes price hikes: Still too soon to measure impact
Christopher Dawson: If a teacher had designed Twitter
Global PC shipments down 6.5% in Q1 2009; HP is No. 1
Images: Kepler catches first planet-hunting territory sightings
Chris Jablonski:New atomic clock loses only a second every 300 million years
Dana Blankenhorn: Connecting hobby and business in open source
Jennifer Leggio: Is it time for a Chief Social Media Officer?
- Dignan: Dear Facebook: If Rosetta Stone can go public so can you
- Diaz: Twitter's big day: Revenue plan? Google deal? Oprah's touch?
- Facebook opens polls for TOS rewrite
- CNet News: Ning hits 1 million social networks
- NYT: Video Prank at Domino's Taints Brand
- Facebook's U.S. numbers still under MySpace's, but not for long
QlikTech taps into BI via the iPhone
Why Nokia needs the U.S. more than ever
Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interested
Paul Miller: The Semantic Web Gang discuss ontologies
ReadWriteWeb: Operation Basement Dad: How 4Chan Could Beat CNN & Ashton Kutcher
Richard Koman: Breaking news in Tenenbaum: No webcasting, orders First Circuit
Andrew Nusca: Quickfire Deal: High-end Navigon 7200T GPS navigation, $199
Zoho goes gadget happy; Brings apps to social networks