News to know: Oracle's Fusion guru quits; Dell; Windows 7 boot times

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Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices

Larry Dignan: Michael Dell: Telcos may subsidize netbooks to sell 3G

• Dan Kusnetzky:Dell repair adventure, day 4, with updates

Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?

• New Microsoft virtualization license lets hosters deliver third-party software as a service
• Microsoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-end

Review: Aluratek Tornado Plus (160GB) (right)

TechRepublic: 10 tips for implementing green IT

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: MobileMe's Rolling 1 Percent Outage

Tom Foremski: Silicon Valley's Judy Estrin warns we are running out of innovation

Heather Clancy: HP ditches the box for Walmart notebook promotion

Deb Perelman: Revenge of the techies

• Fourth quarter IT hiring outlook: The helpdesk is hot

Jason O'Grady: Handicapping Apple's September 9 event (updated)

• iLounge: News: iPod nano 4G, touch 2G dimensions revealed?
• VentureBeat: iTunes 8 with “Genius” recommendations, a new visualizer and HD TV shows?
• AppleInsider: Apple, AT&T sued for over-saturating 3G network with iPhones

Jason Perlow: On stupid mascots and closed source browser pluginsGoogle Chrome:

• Dancho Danchev: DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabs
• Dana Blankenhorn: Who wins with Google Chrome
• Dennis Howlett: Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopper. Techmeme
• Paul Murphy: Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking
• Ed Burnette: Chrome is 42x faster than IE7, 9x faster than FF3
• John Carroll: Chrome and why Gates was right to be paranoid
• Photos: The brains behind Google Chrome (right)
• Paula Rooney: Mozilla CEO: No worries about Google Chrome
• Jason Hiner: Google Chrome: The five best new features
• Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn
• Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Google Chrome ... the day after

Christopher Dawson: Forms in Google DocsMatthew Miller: Windows Mobile 6.1 update for Blackjack II now available

Harry Fuller: Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'

NewTeeVee: Amazon Adds Streaming for Both PCs and Macs

Gizmodo: Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Available Now: Windows XP $399, Ubuntu $349

Sean Portnoy: Canon, Epson add Wi-Fi to new multifunction printers

• Logitech tries to take network music player mainstream with Squeezebox Boom

Adobe sets Sept. 23 as CS4 launch date

Sam Diaz: Deep packet spy's CEO resigns

• Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?

Richard Koman: Class action bait on iPhone problems

• iRobot's Brooks starts worker bot company

Jennifer Leggio: The easiest little Web page ever builtSteve O'Hear: Facebook: when targeted ads cause offense

Video: CSI Stick grabs data from cell phones

Garett Rogers: Google launches Picasa 3.0 and more

Roland Piquepaille:A new method to study origin of life

Yahoo extends portal pact with Verizon; Stock still in purgatory

Christopher Dawson: Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?

• Can Drop.io coexist with the FRCP?

Andrew Nusca: Monster power strips have monster price tags

Review: Acer Aspire X1200-U1520A

Michael Krigsman: Has IT public relations arrived?

Blankenhorn:Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?

• Pig becomes you
• Mitch Ratcliffe: A virus in our genes, think about that....