News to know: MySpace-iLike; Gmail; Twitter; Sony Ericsson; Secure smartphones
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Andrew Nusca: MySpace to acquire social music service iLike for $20 million
Matthew Miller: Push Gmail comes to the iPhone through GPush
- Andrew Nusca: Gmail moves past AOL as No. 3 web e-mail service in U.S.
Jason Hiner: A quick Twitter guide and glossary for business users
- Directory: 100 technology experts on Twitter
- 10 valuable Twitter utilities for business users
- Jennifer Leggio: Spotting a new breed of Twitter spammers
Andrew Nusca: Sony Ericsson taps Nordberg as new CEO; Stringer as board chairman
Sam Diaz: Is your smartphone secure? Survey says probably not
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is $99 too expensive for the Apple App Store?
Andrew Nusca:Is this the Apple tablet?
Matthew Miller: Goodbye myTouch 3G and hello HTC Touch Pro2
Garett Rogers: Google Chrome 4 launches with bookmark synchronization
Sean Portnoy: First 3D TV channel coming to U.S. next year?
Andrew Nusca: $299 laptop specials keep back-to-school shoppers happy; would you buy over a Netbook?
Richard Koman: Russia cooperated with hackers in Georgian cyberattack
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7's Achilles' heel - XP Mode
Andrew Mager: Filtering the Live Web: Managing the Information Age, a SxSW 2010 consideration
Sam Diaz: Watching Palm's August Pre numbers - it's anyone's guess
Richard Koman: Bust in Heartland credit card hack
Tom Foremski: Bad news for TV as studies show online ads are more effective
Jason Perlow: Frugal Tech Show: Microsoft Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2Jennifer Bergen: Gadget Gal's daily deals: Verbatim wireless mouse, Fantom 1TB external HDD, Bluetooth headsets
Richard Koman: Justice says $1.9 million verdict is constitutional
Christopher Dawson: Let me say it again: Stop sharing music!
Janice Chen: Samsung's new CL65 ultracompact is ultra-connected
Jason D'Grady: Leaked iPod touch 3G photos?
jennifer Bergen: Verbatim introduces InSight USB hard drives with 'Always On' display
Dana Blankenhorn: Blumenthal committee throws CCHIT a bone
John Morris: Acer's Aspire 1410 is a notebook in a netbook's body
Ed Bott: Windows 7 customers still paying for Microsoft's Ultimate mistakes
Matthew Miller: TomTom arrives on the iPhone for $100
Jennifer Bergen: Quickfire Deal: Asus Eee PC 900 Netbook
Sam Diaz: Designers build portfolios, maybe land jobs at 99 Designs
Dana Blankenhorn: Will XTent go whole or in pieces?
Dennis Howlett: Gartner financial apps MarketScope
Tom Foremski: Watch the BS in Silicon Valley (and don't wear white shoes)
Sam Diaz: Goodbye, Pre. It wasn't you. It was me.
ZDNet UK: Highly exploitable Linux kernel bug found, patched
Joe McKendrick: Another view: SOA is like a mosquito, spreading viral data
Jason D. O'Grady: Episode 116: PowerPage Podcast
Mary jo Foley: Microsoft shifts gears (again) with its Oslo modeling platform
ZDNet UK: UK faces file-sharing crackdown
Heather Clancy: Push for more energy-efficient Ethernet standard continues forward march
Garett Rogers: Leaked pictures of Chrome OS?
Dana Gardner: Open Group forms Cloud Work Group to spur enterprise cloud adoption and security via open standards
Michael Krigsman: Enterprise software development from an IT failures perspective
Paula Rooney: Leostream releases Connection Broker 6.1
Dana Blankenhorn: First look at stable Firefox 3.5
CNET: Why you should care about Apple's Snow Leopard
Dana Gardner: Understanding the value of reference architectures in the SOA story
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: ATI Catalyst 9.8 released early
Dana Blankenhorn: Big money to be made in health payment processing
Sam Diaz: Lauren's back - and HP says she's still a PC
Andrew Nusca: RIM BlackBerry Storm 2 caught in the wild
Phil Wainewright: How mobile networks flunked my summer roaming spend
Dana Blankenhorn: Mozilla pushes out .Net incompatible Firefox 3.5
Dan Kusnetzky: Open-Xchange and Social Networking
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: 30% of desktops to have 2 GPUs by 2012 ... Really?