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Jason Perlow: Why Microsoft's Killer Instinct Must Return
Ryan Naraine: Google flags entire Web as 'malware'
- Google blames 'human error' for search 'malware' hiccup
- Official Google Blog: “This site may harm your computer” on every search result?!?!
- Michael Krigsman: Google search suffers outage
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: UPDATE x5: Google goes nuts with the "This site may harm your computer" warnings
- Garett Rogers: Google makes mistake, internet goes crazy
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft confirms no more betas for Windows 7
Matthew Miller: Sling Media taking a wait and see approach to the Palm WebOS
Michael Krigsman: Hackers program highway sign with Zombie warning
Christopher Dawson: OLPC XO 2.0 to follow Classmate model
- Dana Blankenhorn: What OLPC has accomplished
- Tough times for H-1B visa holders
- John Carroll: What is American?
- CrackBerry.com: Best Yet? OS 4.7.0.99 Leaked for the BlackBerry Storm 9530
- Boy Genius Report: Motorola Inferno now called Torch, hardware trials begin next week
Joe Brockmeier: What do community managers, you know, do?
- Momentum matters
- The Open Road: Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge
- Dana Gardner: Progress Software's Actional Diagnostics gives developers better view into services integrity
Sam Diaz:Whitehouse.gov's YouTube cookies: The wrong privacy fight
Jason Perlow: Mobile Edge ScanFast is the true IT Road Warrior's Backpack
- Stretching your dollars with Linux on blogtalkradio
Andrew Nusca: Former Microsoft employee accused of spying
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage ... genuine pain in the rear!
- Microsoft neuters UAC in Windows 7
- Long Zheng: Sacrificing security for usability: UAC security flaw in Windows 7 beta (with proof of concept code)
- Andrew Nusca: UAC security flaw in Windows 7 beta
- Paul Murphy: From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- Larry Dignan: Google GDrive clues surface; Is this really a big deal?
- Google Operating System: First Official Description of GDrive
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Tipping Point Reached For Cloud Computing?
Jason O'Grady: The promise of a 3G MacBook
- New 17-inch MacBook Pro begins shipping
- Bag Friday: Booq Taipan Backpack
- Don't feel like working? Bag Friday (at the Famous Wine Bar)
- Dell to launch Android and Windows Mobile phones
- Facebook developers promote iLife '09
- iPhone apps for your ears
- Proventys stars University chancellor in birth of a salesman
- Mom, apple pie and open source
- Does open source control 18% of the PBX market?
- Can open source save the debt market?
- Dan Kusnetzky: 351 Main, Inc. Green Datacenters