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Larry Dignan: Palm's wipeout: Revenue will be 'well below' forecasts as consumers balk
- Digits: Palm CEO's Letter to Employees
Jennifer Leggio: Citibank's big blog faux pas [updated]
Bloomberg: Apple Chief Jobs Prefers Holding Cash to Dividends
Sam Diaz: Mobile workers prefer smartphones over notebooks, iPhones over Blackberry
- Matthew Miller: Android and iPhone users are excited about their devices, not so much about the iPad
Mary Jo Foley: Support end dates for Windows Vista, XP SP2, Windows 2000: Mark your calendars
Dave Greenfield: Wiki Collaboration Meets Click to Call
Tom Foremski: The Korean solution to Google's Italy problem
Zack Whittaker: Google vs. Microsoft: Number wars, students as weapons
Wall Street Journal: Silicon Valley Is Not Wall Street
Ed Bott: Does that new Windows Activation update really 'phone home'?
Tom Foremski: Wow. Survey shows nearly one-third of journalists don't use social media or read blogs
Paula Rooney: Novell would be wise to support Xen and KVM
CNET: Pandora spurs music sales; Spotify not so much
Brian Sommer: The Inadvertent Freelancer (part 2): How to Sell
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft adds Panasonic to its exFAT licensee list
Jason D. O'Grady: Episode 127: PowerPage Podcast
Larry Dignan: Garmin: Why it has to chase the nuvifone dream
Heather Clancy: What do consumers think of the smart grid? Um, not much
AdMob Metrics: January 2010 Mobile Metrics Report
Dana Blankenhorn: The Open Source Innovation Backbone is SaaSy
Tom Foremski: Does Italy think Google is a media company?
Zack Whittaker: PowerPoint 2010: Broadcasting presentations over the web
Heather Clancy: Industry, Big Apple trying to negotiate settlement in e-waste case
Dana Blankenhorn: The real value in the Wakefield autism study
Tom Foremski: Intel alliance with TSMC "fizzles" - bad news for Atom versus ARM in smartphones
Doug Hanchard: Assistant Principal at Lower Merion School District denies spying on students
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft's 'Operation b49' chokes Waledac botnet
Dana Gardner: Citrix Online acquires Paglo, launches GoToManage to tear down IT management boundaries for the cloud era
Mary Jo Foley: Should Windows get the 'Metro' Windows Phone 7 interface?
Robin Harris: ZFS data integrity tested
Rachel King: Pentax debuts ultra-durable Optio W90; will sell at $330
CNET: Next Firefox to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support
ZDNet Asia: Cisco embarks on media-centric Internet thrust
Heather Clancy: Tech companies plan green IT economic summit near Washington
Dana Blankenhorn: Does Microsoft want a Linux trial?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft shares more details on Windows Phone Starter Edition
Larry Dignan: iPhone, iPod touch users power Apple's word-of-mouth momentum
Larry Dignan: Server sales show signs of life in the fourth quarter; IBM remains top dog
Dan Kusnetzky: Priacta, herding cats and action management
Heather Clancy: The Bloom Box: Kind of like Legos for building a power 'server'
Dan Kusnetzky: CA acquires 3Tera while building cloud management portfolio