News to know: Verizon-Skype, Google-telecoms, Windows Phone 7; RIM; Sony
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Jason Hiner: Verizon, Skype will launch Skype Mobile in March
Tom Foremski: Wireless Telcos fear Google will turn them into 'dumb pipes' - they will hit back
- Larry Dignan: Google: Friend or foe to telecom giants?
Mary Jo Foley: Beyond Windows Phone 7: More on other pieces of Microsoft's mobile portfolio
- Larry Dignan: Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series: Too little too late?
Matthew Miller: MWC 2010: RIM introduces free BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express
- Larry Dignan: RIM's free server tool a fine SMB play that could be better
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: WebKit browser coming to the Blackberry
Matthew Miller: MWC 2010: HTC announces two Google Android and one Windows Mobile device
Tom Foremski: The economics of a free iPad...
Christopher Dawson: 100Mbps to the home? How about to schools instead?
Garett Rogers: Ditching Firefox for Google Chrome not an option?
Jason D. O'Grady: NBC Olympics app is worthy of a gold medal
Sean Portnoy: MSI releases four new budget laptops, including Blu-ray model for $699.99
Rachel King: Five concept gadgets that are just ridiculous
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: A difficult future for Firefox
Robin Harris: Driverless eSATA cards: worth the wait?
Jennifer Leggio: Solis, Needleman make a visit to the Quick'n'Dirty
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hackers "fix" XP BSoD rootkit
Ryan Naraine: Adobe plugs more gaping holes in PDF Reader
Zack Whittaker: Are we ready to go fully 64-bit yet
Jason Perlow: Smartphone Evolution 2.0: Who's the biggest loser?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple kicks off MacBook repair extension program
Heather Clancy: New free database covers e-waste rules and other IT asset disposal regulations
Sean Portnoy: Sony's Dash Personal Internet Viewer will stream Netflix videos. Should the iPad be worried?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live ID authentication problems hit users across the Web
ZDNet UK: Opera for iPhone runs 'six times' faster than Safari
Mary Jo Foley: More Microsoft IE 9 info coming at Mix 2010
Dana Blankenhorn: Is commercial first a fair compromise
Jason D. O'Grady: Steve Jobs' sneakiest statements
Mary Jo Foley: Add 'Denali' to the Microsoft SQL Server roadmap
Sam Diaz: Yoono brings order to the chaos of social media
Christopher Dawson: Go ahead, kids...bash those teachers on Facebook!
Forrester: EMC and FatWire finally get together - but perhaps not as expected
Phil Wainewright: SAP's Vishal Sikka on SaaS
Dana Gardner: HP 'trims' SharePoint web document management risks, builds advanced workflow tools
Michael Krigsman: IT failure? Blame your CEO.
Tom Foremski: What the diamond industry had in common with the news industry...
Brian Sommer: Career success in today's businesses
Dana Gardner: Electric Cloud updates software production offerings with parallelization features
Ryan Naraine: Pwn2Own 2010: Bulls-eye on smartphones, browsers
Doug Hanchard: US Strategic Command recognizes cyber security challenges
Heather Clancy: For insight about potential cloud data center energy challenges, take a page from the telcos
Andrew Nusca: RIM debuts new BlackBerry browser, BES Express for SMBs
Dana Blankenhorn: Could WiFi become Google's mobile checkmate
Dancho Danchev: Report: Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent of all exploits for 2009
CNET: Bicycle racer charged with computer hacking
Dana Blankenhorn: Medpedia takes the next step forward with clinical trials
Sam Diaz: Alcatel-Lucent expands toolset for third-party app developers
Dan Kusnetzky: What is "Big Data?"
Dana Blankenhorn: Mobility is a mixed source world
Larry Dignan: Can Staples be your IT department?
Smart Planet: Yahoo makes Web surfing easier for the disabled