News to know: Microsoft; IBM; SuccessFactors; Pluto images
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Ryan Naraine: Microsoft's Mega Patch Tuesday ahead
- Dancho Danchev: Does Blippy really pose a security risk?
Larry Dignan: SuccessFactors makes first acquisition; Buys Inform for $40.5 million
- Dennis Howlett: NetSuite hits record earnings
IBM hits graphene transistor breakthrough
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft schedules 12 Windows Phone sessions for Mix 10 conference
Mark Cuban: Why Have So Many Internet People Lost Touch With Reality ?
Microsoft, NSF team to provide research in the cloud
Sam Diaz: Google Store View: Imagine the possibilities, concerns
Gallery: Most-detailed images of Pluto revealed
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Toyota's Prius problems: Software, hardware and the future of motoring
NYT: Microsoft's Creative Destruction
- Foley: Microsoft's challenge: Innovation, innovation, innovation
- Microsoft: Measuring Our Work by Its Broad Impact
U.S. House passes cybersecurity research bill
Pondering a robot as co-worker
Dion Hinchcliffe: SAP's 12Sprints joins the social enterprise bandwagon
- Dennis Howlett: Oracle: let's all play fair
Dana Gardner: Real-time web data services in action at German stock exchange
- New definition of enterprise architecture emphasizes 'fit for purpose' across IT undertakings
- The Open Group SOA Work Group making strides to deepen link between TOGAF and SOA
Heather Clancy: Green Grid prepping new efficiency estimator, power calculator
Paula Rooney: Is mobile Firefox going to be too late?
IBM launches Lotus Symphony 3 beta; Office alternatives pile up
Google: WWII historical imagery in Google Earth
Rachel King: Inbrics bringing ultra-thin, Android-based MID M1 slider phone to MWC 2010
- The Internet makes short list for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize nominees
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 arriving in the UK in April
- Lenovo introduces T410i, T410si and T510i ThinkPad laptops with Intel Core i3-330M
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 can dual-boot with Windows Mobile, Android 2.0.1
- Joojoo tablet computer now in full production mode, will ship soon
Tom Foremski: Classified ads plunge to $6bn from $19.6bn in 2000
Sean Portnoy: Gateway recharges its FX gaming desktops with Core i7 CPUs, Radeon HD 5850 graphics
NYT: Sun's Chief Executive Tweets His Resignation
Sam Diaz: AT&T says 3G is ready for streaming Sling video. Really?
Michael Krigsman: Analyst relations: Failure in action
Top 30 iPad games we'd like to see (right)
Let compliance lead the way in preventing healthcare data breaches
Jason O'Grady: Browser previews come to App Store
- Episode 124: PowerPage Podcast
- Zack Whittaker: Students: Don't get an iPad. Please.
- Apple accused of copying iPad design
Aussie ISP, Pirate Party win BitTorrent file-sharing case
Dignan: Lenovo sales surge; Company hits stride in third quarter
- Kingsley-Hughes: AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5450 - A $50 multimedia GPU
Computerworld: Sony interested in challenging Apple's iPad
Dan Kusnetzky: Swype text entry for smart handhelds
PaidContent: Comcast-NBCU Hearings: Zucker Confronted About Hulu's Boxee Block
Christopher Dawson: SMS, social media in for kids; blogging, Twitter out
Dana Blankenhorn: Crossing the line to the Internet Generation
Make-or-buy balance still unclear in 2011 Defense and Veteran budgets