News to know: Pre; NetApp; Bartz; Windows 7; Netbooks
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Ed Bott: From Starter to Ultimate: What's really in each Windows 7 Edition?
Matthew Miller: Palm Pre reviews appear; can it beat the iPhone and Android devices?
Larry Dignan: NetApp, Data Domain ink revised deal; EMC says bid still superior
Bartz: Bing isn't all that (and neither is a Microsoft search deal)
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to launch ThinkWeek 2.0
No Apple-like attack ads for Microsoft's big-bucks Bing campaign
Microsoft: No Windows 7 for ARM-based netbooks (for now)
- Sam Diaz: Microsoft's name-game: they're "netbooks" - plain and simple
- Jennifer Bergen: Microsoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy term
- UK retailer pulls Linux netbooks from stores
- Photos: Freescale shows off 'smartbook' designs
- Tom Foremski: JavaOne's days are numbered
- Business Week: Palm: Likely to Stumble with Pre
Andrew Nusca: It's official: Acer to offer Aspire One netbook with Google Android, Q3 2009
- LaCie introduces 500GB, 1TB wireless HD media players
- Sony Ericsson brings W995a unlocked smartphone to U.S.
Intel Core i7 975: 'World's fastest processor' reviews, aggregated
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: So what's new with the new Core i7 CPUs?
- AMD to ship DirectX 11 GPUs this year
- Hara offers environmental monitoring application in online format
- Get your green on: Run a quick test of your PC's settings with online services
- James Farrar: Hearing the Call: A Promethean Encounter in Copenhagen?
- Dennis Howlett: PBWorks continues vertical path with project edition
- Dana Gardner: TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds
- Google's new data tools: it's all about business
- Phil Wainewright: Intuit makes two-pronged PaaS and SaaS push
Jennifer Bergen:Bye bye black and white: iRex color e-reader in 2011?
- Iran, North Korea, China, Russia searching for U.S. secrets on P2P networks
- Top-level job openings rebound in May; Midwest, West slowest to recover
- Windows 7 to open another round in Apple-Microsoft rivalry
- Bing muscles in on IE6 users
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is anyone WOWed by desktop wallpapers any more? Microsoft thinks so!
- Nokia announces BH-905 active noise cancelling Bluetooth stereo headset
- Nokia N97 launching in 75 countries in June
- Feds to probe tech hiring practices; Good luck with that one
- Washington Post: Federal Antitrust Probe Targets Tech Giants, Sources Say