News to know: IBM, Open Cloud Manifesto, Web 2.0 Expo, Conficker, Microsoft ad
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Larry Dignan: IBM revamps server lineup based on Intel's Nehalem
Larry Dignan: Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?
- Mary Jo Foley: Amazon not joining the Open Cloud Manifesto, either
- Larry Dignan: The Open Cloud Manifesto: Publish it already
Jennifer Leggio: Web 2.0 Expo: Recommended sessions for social business
- Christopher Dawson: Has the UK gone too far in social media education?
Ryan Naraine: CBS 60 Minutes covers Conficker, malware epidemic
- Jason Perlow: Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaning
- Sam Diaz: Microsoft ad: Lauren wanted a Mac but 'settled' for Windows
- Jason D. O'Grady: Microsoft's new "price" television commercial (Updated)
Dana Gardner: HP advises strategic view of virtualization to dramatically cut IT costs, gain efficiency and usher in cloud benefits
Garett Rogers: Is the Google Car next?
Harry Fuller: Getting green ideas spread around
Andrew Nusca: Study: Tech can overwhelm twentysomethings, but not enough to go offline
Oliver Marks: Collaboration Return-On-Investment
Harry Fuller: Landfill trash to methane to ethanol--a fuel cycle
Jason D. O'Grady: iPhone OS 3.0 bricking pirated iPhones
Matthew Miller: Weekend PSA; subscribe to the Smartphones & Cell Phones blog
Sean Portnoy: Pricing for 2009 HDTV sets leaks before Samsung's official announcement
Paul Murphy: A recommendation on leasing new equipment
Harry Fuller: American cars mandated to get greener
Ryan Naraine: Mozilla kills Firefox Pwn2Own bug
Chris Jablonski: Artificial blood, cartilage, and...brain?
Michael Krigsman: Project governance and failure
Photo Gallery: See the new Tesla Model S
James Farrar: G20, London Loony Lamposts and Banking Undue Diligence
Sean Portnoy:Signing off from the SOHO Networking blog
Matthew Miller: BibleTech 2009; reaching eternity through technology
Harry Fuller: The CFL kerfuffle
Richard Koman: Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai Lama
Larry Dignan: What a difference a decade makes: Barron's proclaims Amazon best retailer
Brian Sommer: Why are the pieces of BearingPoint going to Auditors???
Heather Clancy: Uptime conference will focus on strategy that marries IT reliability must-haves with energy-efficiency goals
Andrew Nusca: Are solid state drives doomed?
Christopher Dawson: "School Bus Yellow" Dell netbook leaked - I mean School Bus Orange
- Andrew Nusca: Dell offers PC that packs 192GB of DDR3 RAM [not a typo]
Andrew Nusca: Quickfire Deal: Free BlackBerry Bold from AT&T, today only
Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #167, Whispersync, iPhone 3.0 notification, and Opera Mobile with Turbo
Dana Blankenhorn: A firehose of free at Google Analytics
Mary Jo Foley: IE 8: Can I have the lite version?
Andrew Nusca: U.S. ranks highest in world for originating attack traffic in Q4 2008
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The state of Linux - Is it ready for the "average" user?
Dana Blankenhorn: Dean at critical point in health reform debate
Andrew Nusca: Study: Eight hours spent in front of screens, age 45-54 watch most
Jennifer Bergen: iTunes price hike: Really? $1.29?
Larry Dignan: Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us
Paul Greenberg: CRM Playaz Episode #3: Twitter Hall of Shame; Customer Service - Sometimes It Hurts
Andrew Nusca: Report: Asus to launch Eee PC with optical drive in April
Dana Blankenhorn: Is RealAge a scam?
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Seagate hard drives, Dell widescreen monitor, Philips Blu-ray player
Dana Blankenhorn: Yes to new open source business models, no to whinging
CNET: Twitter still has no business model, and that's OK
Larry Dignan: Accenture: Some clients are operating without annual budgets
Dan Kusnetzky: Living with the Eye of the Storm - an Entuity customer profile
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