News to know: Microsoft's outlook, emergency patch; Apple; Amazon's cloud; Yang speaks
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Sam Diaz: Fake Steve Jobs heart attack story posted by teenager. Bloomberg: Jobs Said to Be Targeted by Teen in Heart-Attack Tale Jason O'Grady: SEC examining teen's motive in fake Jobs heart attack rumor
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- Ryan Naraine: MS ships emergency patch for Windows worm hole
- Microsoft: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067 - Critical
- Adam O'Donnell: Latest MS Vuln eerily similar to one from two years previous
Dancho Danchev: Lack of phishing attacks data sharing puts $300M at stake annually
BoomTown: An Interview With Yahoo's Jerry Yang, Part 1: The Econalypse's Impact and More
Dennis Howlett: PBWiki: growing in a recession
- Christopher Dawson: Hey teachers...Just stay off the MySpace, OK?
- It's official - my wife likes Ubuntu, too
Mary Jo Foley: Amazon battens down the hatches before Microsoft's cloud launch next week
- Dignan: Amazon: EC2 is production ready; Will enterprises bite?
- Amazon: Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities
Jason Perlow: Taking Ubuntu Ibex on vacation
Joe McKendrick:SOA to work the problem
- Brian Sommer: Earned Value's Ascendancy in PPM
News.com: Intel unveils new cooling tech for ultrathin laptops
AP: Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby
Kingsley-Hughes: Is holding out for Windows 7 a gamble worth taking?- Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft starts another Windows 7 blog
Sam Diaz: Juniper beats for Q3
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Sony slashes earnings forecast by almost $1 billion
- After the layoffs: Increased workloads stress out those left behind
- Michael Krigsman: How to avoid being an IT layoff casualty
- E-commerce's looming question: Will consumers show up?
Paul Murphy: From the Sun reseller trenches
Matthew Miller: Samsung Epix integrates a touch sensitive pad and QWERTY keyboard
- Image Gallery: MSI Wind netbook (right)
- Gmail for mobile 2.0 adds basic offline support and more
- And we're back, Android Market appears to be well populated again
Russia blocks Google's ad company acquisition
- Garett Rogers: Google reads brain waves to measure ads on YouTube
- Richard Koman: Suit claims Google makes millions on typosquatting
Comcast rolls out Ultra service, keeps cut-off ceiling
Sean Portnoy: Lexmark releases new laser printers with built-in Draft N Wi-Fi
CIO Sessions: Qwest's Pieter Poll
Jennifer Leggio: Linkbaiting is dead: Why social media needs to kill the FUDHeather Clancy: Lenovo greens its environmental credentials with e-coupon, recycling program
Paul Murphy: From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
Roland Piquepaille: Exchanging pictures to generate passwords?
David Morgenstern: More ideas for where Apple should park its cash horde
- Jason O'Grady: You're the CEO: How would you spend Apple's $25 billion?
- Free iPhone apps today: Polar Bear Farm Ltd
- Apple patent application for RF module
- What's On removed from the App Store
- Get matriculated at Apple University (updated)
- John Carroll: Apple the software platform company
- Andrew Nusca: Confirmed: Dual GPU and on-the-fly switching capability in MacBook Pro
TechRepublic: Make better decisions with less information
- Sun xVM VirtualBox packs a punch and it is free
- Do cloud computing and parallel processing lack use cases?
Kingsley-Hughes: Are Linux failures down to the OEMs?
Jason Perlow: Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together
Gallery: Five virtual worlds you need to know about (right)
Joe Brockmeier: Yes, vendors are vital to open source
- Blankenhorn: Are vendors vital to open source?
LinkedIn raises another $22.7 million; SAP among investors
Dennis Howlett: Noodling on LinkedIn's millions
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Sign of the Times: Should the 'Gray Lady' talk to a Yahoo?
Dana Blankenhorn: Will genetic study of lung cancer yield fruit?
- Chairman Bill says let a hundred projects bloom
- What happens when you are magnetic ink?
- Is Linux really worth $10.8 billion?
IBM Lotus gets into the Hosted Email game. Phew.
Review:Sony VAIO VGN-TT190EIR
Video: What is semantic search?
Paul Miller: Hans Rosling helps us hear the music with beautiful data
Koman: DHS takes over flight lists from airports
Netflix: Coming to a Samsung Blu-ray player near you