News to know: IBM layoffs, Google, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Dell

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Sam Diaz: WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to India

• Larry Dignan: Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees vent

Matthew Miller: Google Mobile App with voice search now available for BlackBerry

Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile debuts mobile broadband with USB device

• John Morris: Sprint, T-Mobile expand options for wireless broadband on laptops

Dana Blankenhorn: Microsoft is as troubled as the rest of us

CNET: 'New Dell' makes big server push

• Sam Diaz: Dell ups its data center game

Larry Dignan: Blockbuster inks deal with TiVo

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft identity-management product running a year late

Dennis Howlett: Squaring the SAP certification and maintenance circle

Jason D. O'Grady: Apple addresses MBP17 vertical lines with firmware update

Sean Portnoy: Seagate matches Western Digital with 8TB BlackArmor NAS devices

Andrew Nusca: Poll: What do you want to see on The Toybox?

Ryan Naraine: Cisco IOS patch day covers multiple vulnerabilities

Chris Jablonski: Nanorobot for Brain Aneurysm

Richard Koman: Outrage in aftermath of China's YouTube censorship

• Girls sue DA who threatened them over bra photos

Dana Gardner: Eclipse Swordfish OSGi ESB enters fray for SOA market acceptance, Sopera to add support

Harry Fuller: The new ocean czarina takes over

• I'm learnin' to love algae

Jason D. O'Grady: The next App Store threat: counterfeit apps

Sam Diaz: AT&T is first ISP to bully music pirates for RIAA

• Richard Koman: ISPs sending RIAA letters - but swear they won't suspend users

Sam Diaz: A Twitter conference: not as silly as it sounds

Andrew Mager: Track the Twitterazzi with Famery

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: There Is No Such Thing As a $99 Netbook. Not From Apple. Or Anyone.

Jason D. O'Grady: Charlie Miller: Macs lacking in security

Andrew Nusca: Are you still interested in Palm Pre?

Oliver Marks: Where Worlds Collide - and then there's Sharepoint

Ryan Naraine: Microsoft adds 'Skywing' to Windows defense team

Christopher Dawson: Childtopia adds functionality to Classmates (and more)

Dana Gardner: SaaS provider Workday extends HR business processes to iPhone, mobile tier

Harry Fuller: Environmental drug abuse

• Reknowned scientist takes unpopular stance on global warming

Jennifer Bergen: Google Mobile App for BlackBerry introduces Search by voice and My Location

Jason D. O'Grady: China Unicom getting iPhone in May

Jennifer Leggio: Fortune 500 series: Texas Instruments uses social media to connect 10K+ engineers

Dana Blankenhorn: Should health IT be immune from suits

Mary Jo Foley: April deadlines loom for Windows XP, Office 2003 product support

Dana Blankenhorn: Insurance industry renews offer to end underwriting

Joe McKendrick: Is having SOA and Master Data Management at the same time a form of overkill?

Ryan Naraine: Foxit PDF Reader being exploited in the wild

Andrew Nusca: How Nokia Ovi Store will trump Apple on global stage

Zack Whittaker: UK government to collect Facebook data?

Dennis Howlett: Where to for revenue recognition?

Christopher Dawson: Another Classmate expedition

Dana Blankenhorn: It's a Flat World after all

Jennifer Bergen: Canon EOS Rebel T1i unveiled

Andrew Nusca: Samsung to launch Papyrus e-reader

Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Sony Bravia LCD HDTV, Logitech Harmony Advanced Universal Remote, Lenovo IdeaPad laptop

Andrew Nusca: Wacom introduces Intuos4 pen tablet; adds sensitivity, OLED

ZDNet UK: IBM and Wyse lead thin-client revival

• Facebook attacks UK gov't monitoring plans