News to know: Microsoft's reversal, Obama's policies, MySpace, Apple netbook

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Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft lets laid-off employees keep overpayments

• Sam Diaz: Microsoft backpedals on severance payback

Tom Foremski: A panel discussion about Obama's tech policies and Silicon Valley

Larry Dignan: Watch out MySpace, here comes Rupe

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Do you really think Apple's going to take business advice from a bunch of cheapskates?

• Jason D. O'Grady: Building a DIY Apple netbook

• Sam Diaz: Apple roundup: Jobs-less meeting, to netbook or not, and an iPhone rumor

Larry Dignan: Web video isn't killing cable subs...yet

Garett Rogers: Google.org: Full steam ahead!

Adam O'Donnell: Brand spanking new Excel 0-day being exploited in the wild

Heather Clancy: How green is your e-tailer? Survey finds Internet and e-commerce businesses lacking in green tech leadership

Larry Dignan: Motorola dishes off Good Technology to Visto

Joe McKendrick: Survey: SOA delivering; SOAP out, REST in

Ed Bott: Who needs another Windows 7 beta?

Michael Krigsman: Forrester CRM analyst discusses IT failure [podcast]

Phil Wainewright: Coghead's demise highlights PaaS lock-out risk

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Bits By B.I.T.: Is Instantaneous Large-Screen HD Video Over the Net Here?

Adam O' Donnell: Competitors for the next hash standard found to have security-related coding flaws

Ed Burnette: PPoPP 2009 wrap-up

Dancho Danchev: eBay solutions provider Auctiva.com infected with malware

James Staten: Red Hat and Citrix ratchet up open source virtualization relevancy

Jason D. O'Grady: The new iTunes paradigm, release your music as an app

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's MashupOS leaps like a Gazelle

Jason D. O'Grady: Concept: App management in iTunes

Harry Fuller: Offshore wind, a new tack

Andrew Nusca: Google triggers annoying DoS CAPTCHA prompt?

Richard Koman: Senators cry 'child abuse' as they seek to dismantle the Net

Harry Fuller: Young generation greening the nitty-gritty of government

Dennis Howlett: Oracle apps: an innovation free zone since 2006?

Dana Blankenhorn: Flu prevention grabs virus by the neck

Sam Diaz: Is the U.S. a broadband leader or laggard?

Jason D. O'Grady: Using TrapCall to view blocked numbers

Joe McKendrick: SOA will accelerate cloud computing -- here's why

• New mega-association for enterprise architects announced

Dana Blankenhorn: Will telcos ever embrace open source?

• HL7 wants fewer standards, more patience on health IT

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft drops new hints on next Communications Server release

Joe McKendrick: Commentator 'depressed' that cloud sounds just like SOA

Dana Blankenhorn: Could the Linux Foundation get too big?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is dual-booting more hassle than it's worth?

Dan Kusnetzky: Citrix launches a free version of XenServer and Citrix Essentials

• Larry Dignan: It's official: Citrix aims to blow up enterprise virtualization pricing

Larry Dignan: Intel: HP accounts for 20 percent of annual sales

Dancho Danchev: Chinese hackers deface the Russian Consulate in Shanghai

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