News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google
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Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions
Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making the classic Web and intranet obsolete?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft expanding Office Web Apps test program
- Selected testers get new build of Microsoft Security Essentials
- Ballmer: Zune services coming to 'next release' of Windows Mobile
Jason Perlow: Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!
- Paul Murphy: What Windows7 could mean for Linux
- Dana Blankenhorn: Windows 7 will shine in medicine
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Less than 24-hours on and a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel surfaces
NYT: Sergey Brin Aids Charity That Aided Him
Unwired View: Nokia is exploring 3D multi-touch interface
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Psystar releases 'build your own Hackintosh' kit
Joe McKendrick: SOA Manifesto unveiled
- Dennis Howlett: The maintenance renewal landscape
- Larry Dignan: Data center design 101
- Dana Blankenhorn: Application transformation case study targets enterprise bottom line with eye-popping ROI
Garett Rogers: Google Music: What if...
Sam Diaz: Google's Schmidt: Washington politics "not very interesting"
Icahn to resign from Yahoo board
Sergey Brin: Chrome for Mac still unstable
Facebook settlement: Kill Beacon, pay $9.5 million into fund to promote online privacy
- Andrew Mager: Facebook launches confusing, counterintuitive, broken UI
- CNN.com launches cleaner, more personalized design
Venture Beat: Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company
Doug Hanchard: Government in action: 1.3M mobile plans; Mexico's Internet tax; England's crime map
CNet News: Apple punts on lower-cost MacBook
Andrew Nusca: Demand for Windows 7, Xbox lifts Microsoft earnings; more losses online
Sean Portnoy: Would you let Wal-mart do your home-theater installation?
Zack Whittaker: Universities in hot water over students' peer-to-peer sharing
Meet Mozilla's Raindrop: Like Google Wave, but different enough to co-exist
Janice Chen: Sony's new digital photo frame includes built-in photo printer
Rachel King: Access, Emblaze Mobile debut Linux-based 'Else Intuition'
Jason Perlow: Frugal Friday: Mac refresh, Magic Mouse, Verizon DROID, The Nook, Windows 7, Likewise
Dana Blankenhorn: Drupal challenged as White House goes blog
- Give Jim Whitehurst his due and proper
- Could diabetes fight the obesity epidemic?
- Bells give net neutrality the McCain two-step
Mark Cuban: The DVR vs Internet Video
Tech Crunch: Tim Armstrong's Secret Project Is To Turn AOL Into A Low-Cost Content Machine
Dave Greenfield: LifeLogging and Love: A Fatal Combination?
Tom Foremski: MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap
Heather Clancy: Alternative to electrical retrofits helps Verizon Center save $25K monthly
Zack Whittaker: Email Overload Syndrome: Too much in too many places
Christopher Dawson: So about this SIF thing
Matthew Miller: iPhone app review: Mantis Bible Study
Harry Fuller: Liquids from methane could be better than mere gas(oline)
Mitch Ratcliffe: Updating Kindles-sold estimates: 1.072 million