News to know: March Madness, Chrome beta, Sony-Google, Android

Larry Dignan: March Madness meets IT: We're guinea pigs
- Matthew Miller: Follow all the March Madness action on your mobile phone
Garett Rogers: Google releases new beta version of Chrome
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Google Chrome 2.0 Beta - Fast. Fast! FAST!!!
Sam Diaz: Sony partners with Google to battle Amazon for eBook readers
Matthew Miller: Three more HTC Google Android devices coming in 2009
Mary Jo Foley: Ballmer: Only one meeting so far with Yahoo's Bartz
- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Microsoft's Ballmer on buying the New York Times: "No. Not 'no comment.' No."
David Morgenstern: Takeover Fever: The Apple-Sun saga

Christopher Dawson: Are we responsible for content filtering at home?
Andrew Nusca: Google Street View launches in U.K.
Robin Harris: Cisco's bong-sized "cloud"
Matthew Miller: Should Villanueva have posted to Twitter during NBA halftime?
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Kumo, Yah: Microsoft Planning a 'Set Change' in Search
Mary Jo Foley: Tit for tat: TomTom sues Microsoft for patent infringement
Jason D. O'Grady: iPhone 3.0 v. Android feature by feature
Dion Hinchcliffe: Sharepoint and Enterprise 2.0: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Sam Diaz: New Gmail features gives users a chance to Undo Send
Tom Foremski: IBM bid for Sun could be a blocking move
- Christopher Dawson: Do we care if IBM buys Sun?
- CNET: Is it a bad idea for IBM to buy Sun?
Joe McKendrick: Open source middleware: the time may be ripe
Ryan Naraine: Questions for Pwn2Own hacker Charlie Miller
Zack Whittaker: Day in the life of... a laid off tech support
Sam Diaz: Note to newspapers: I can't read what you don't sell
Ed Bott: IE8 focuses on usability
Dana Blankenhorn: Proprietary advantage the argument against health IT?
Paula Rooney: Schwartz: Sun is world's largest open source company
Harry Fuller: Polar bear now has friends in high places
- A pending environmental disaster, and how we humans got it right
- Fancy a little water over lower Manhattan?
Richard Koman: Conficker Cabal fights threat to security, Internet
Dana Blankenhorn: Texas Democrats push ODF standard
Andrew Nusca: Turbo.264 HD speeds conversion of HD, AVCHD video on Mac
Dana Blankenhorn: Will HIPAA changes torpedo health IT stimulus?
Jason D. O'Grady: Multiple core iPhone processor announced (Updated)
Andrew Nusca: Twitter premium account hoax fools Twitterverse
Dana Blankenhorn: Foster plan for open source education
Jason D. O'Grady: MacBook and Safari succumb to hackers
ZDNet Asia: 'Controlled cloud' the way to go for security
Andrew Nusca: Rackable CloudRack operates in 104-degree data centers
Joe McKendrick: SOA without service-enabled applications?
Matthew Miller: Mobile Firefox (aka Fennec) beta 1 now available for testing
Larry Dignan: The race to 99.999 percent uptime: 3Tera ups the cloud SLA ante
Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's morning deals: Sony Cyber-shot, HP Pavilion laptop, Samsung Blu-ray
Larry Dignan: SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI
Paul Greenberg: Sword Ciboodle - Yes, That's Their Real Name
Larry Dignan: Cisco Flips for Pure Digital; Acquires it for $590 million
Harry Fuller: White House becoming Green House?
Zack Whittaker: IE8 released at Mix; will it cripple the web-user experience?
Polly Schneider Traylor: 10 ways to be a good manager during a recession
Dan Kusnetzky: ClearCube simplifying VDI adoption
Sean Portnoy: Sony to expand its line of Bravia RHT-G HDTV stands with built-in speaker systems