News to know: IBM-Sun; RIM, Web 2.0; CTIA; Facebook; iPhone
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Larry Dignan: IBM-Sun deal nears finish line; Antitrust worries just starting
Sam Diaz: RIM delivers solid Q4 on BlackBerry sales; shares soar
Andrew Mager: Web 2.0 Expo exposes Web 2.0 Bust
- Photos: Revision3 Tekzilla live taping at Web 2.0 Expo
- Joe Brockmeier: How to make technology conferences suck less
Matthew Miller: CTIA 09: Walk through some 3rd party apps on the Palm Pre
- CTIA 09: Hands-on with HTC Touch Pro2, Nokia E75, HTC Snap and more
- CTIA 09: DataViz announces Word/Excel software and push Exchange email for Android
Sam Diaz: Facebook Fallout: Is it time for Zuckerberg to go?
- Andrew Nusca: Is Facebook an unsafe environment for business?
Mary Jo Foley: There's more than one way Microsoft could bring Office to the iPhone
CNET: Verizon promises 4G wireless for rural America
Dana Blankenhorn: Browser standards in an open source world
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple - Evolutionary or just reinventing the wheel?
Dan Kuznetzky: Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - finding a contact
Larry Dignan: Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service
Sam Diaz: SEC filing: Rosetta Stone to file IPO
Richard Koman: Radiohead: Filesharing good for music biz
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Interactive Television Is Here Again. Want Anchovies With That?
Sean Portnoy: Viewsonic announces new 22-inch 1080p HDTV for $349
Ryan Naraine: Attackers pounce on Microsoft PowerPoint zero-day
Dennis Howlett: Zut alors! the French are revolting
Harry Fuller: Did the G20 just pee on our environment?
Brian Sommer: PPM for the custom development and SaaS world
Harry Fuller: Carolina hydrogen: heavy duty but lighter than air
Zack Whittaker: Social networking jamming up university public PC's
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: It's time for Microsoft to supply ALL patches to All users
Larry Dignan: NetSuite aims to connect to Salesforce.com's cloud
Harry Fuller: You don't have to be a rocket scientist
Heather Clancy: EPA announces nationwide mobile phone recycling campaign
Jennifer Bergen: Skype Call Recorder: Record your conversations for free
Paula Rooney: Dimdim launches v5, price cuts to beat WebEx, Go2Meeting
Ryan Naraine: Eyeballing Conficker with eye-charts and maps
Christopher Dawson: Fliggo - YouTube without everybody else's stuff
Phil Wainewright: SaaS channel models morph into shape
Micahel Lazerow: 'App-vertisement' 101: How to make branded social applications work
ZDNet UK: Conficker an April Fool's joke? Maybe not
Brian Sommer: Compuware's New Application Portfolio Management Accelerator
Mary Jo Foley: Is $100 million enough to help Microsoft gain search share?
Jennifer Bergen: MSI GX733 energy-efficient 17-inch gaming laptop
Dana Blankenhorn: Moore's second law and software
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases more code under an open-source license
Jennifer Leggio: 'Me 2.0' shares personal branding tips for millennials, baby boomers alike
Jason D. O'Grady: Cheating on your Mac
Christopher Dawson: Picasa makes iPhoto irrelevant
Jennifer Bergen: Turn your laptop into a tablet with Tablo
Dana Blankenhorn: Another open source health tools consortium
Jason D. O'Grady: Dual-screen MacBook mod
Dana Blankenhorn: Intel and GE put $25 million per year each into monitors
Joe McKendrick: Microsoft combines storage and SOA units -- what's that all about?
Jason Perlow: Warner Music Group: All your memories belong to us
Jason D. O'Grady: What's on the Queen's iPod?
ZDNet UK: Cloud Security Alliance set to launch at RSA
Heather Clancy: Green-tech wrinkle in Pepsi vs. Coke debate
Andrew Nusca: New Palm Pre video shows apps, multitasking
Dancho Danchev: Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levels
ZDNet UK: Ten ways to make your boss love you - and save your job
Andrew Nusca: Sony debuts new HD camcorder for 1920x1080 video
Ed Burnette: Nokia releases how-to video for Ovi store developers
Michael Krigsman: Cool word of the day: 'Boondoggle'
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Philips sound system, Garmin nüvi 205W GPS, Sony BRAVIA LCD HDTV
Jennifer Leggio: MindTouch adds messaging, enhanced application development to open source collaboration
Dana Gardner: Amazon's BI-on-the-fly using MapReduce-as-a-service brings huge cloud data crunching to the masses
Paul Greenberg: CRM Playaz Episode #4: Social & CRM Mavens "Punditize" About Social CRM; Coolest Names
Dan Kusnetzky: Parallels Workstation Extreme