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Ed Bott: How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista?
Adam O'Donnell: Webmail providers can fix Palin hack-style problems
Is the HTC Dream Google Android device targeted to feature phone users?
Mary Jo Foley: Ballmer sets a new (and potentially much later) retirement date
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Oct/Nov 08.
Ryan Naraine: Adobe moves to nuke 'clipboard hijack' attacks
Garett Rogers: Microsoft, this is how you can deal with Google
WSJ: Yahoo's New Board to Meet
NYT: Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Nothing to Fear
VMWare issues 'critical' ESXi security advisory
- Dana Blankenhorn: Will VMWare go open source without legal pressure?
- Forrester Research blog: Cloud Courting: Round One
- Virtualization: The race is on to corner the market
EIC Podcast: Wall Street; Sarah Palin's email; Web 2.0
San Francisco Chronicle: Silicon Valley's resiliency might get tested
Larry Dignan: Beware the shocking iPhone 3G power adapters
- Jason D. O'Grady:Apple recalls iPhone power adapter
Deb Perelman: Ever wish you could fire your IT boss?
TechRepublic: What should I do: CEO wants to micromanage
Andrew Nusca: Pepcom Holiday Spectacular! NYC 2008. Gallery right
Matthew Miller: Apple files notification screen patent, is this really that unique?
- Video of HTC Touch HD appears, good reviews of HTC Touch Pro and Diamond
- Nokia E72 and E75 revealed on YouTube, E72 has unique slide-out QWERTY
- Dan Kusnetzky:Celio Redfly - access virtualization using smartphones
Michael Krigsman: Warning: failure-driven IT layoffs ahead
- Joe McKendrick: Governance: SOA starts -- and ends -- here
- Dana Gardner: LogLogic updates search and analysis tools for conquering IT systems management complexity
- Genuitec expands Pulse provisioning system beyond tools to Eclipse distros, eyes larger software management role
News.com: If Best Buy walks Real's Rhapsody will hurt
Zack Whittaker: Google's insightful looking glass
Sean Portnoy: Sanyo debuts 120Hz 1080p LCD projector
Jason O'Grady:iPhone developer makes $250k in two months
Apple security not ready for enterprise prime-time
Dennis Howlett: Help this guy: saas, cloud, the whole shebang
Sam Diaz: Can a case be made against the Palin e-mail hacker?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft's "Phase 2" ad campaign - No mention of Vista anywhere
- Jason O'Grady: Microsoft: I'm a PC and I've been made into a stereotype
Jennifer Leggio: FriendFeed redesign - win; Twitter redesign - 'lipstick on a pig'?
- Andrew Mager: Turn Facebook into English Pirate mode
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Ariana's Secret & The "Obsessive-Compulsive" WebBoomTown: Why the Yahoogle Deal Will Likely Launch-And Be Coming to an Internet Near You on October 9
Heather Clancy:Southern Edison gets green light, some moolah for smart metering program
- Out of our hands, but not out of our lives. New info on green tech dumping
- Verari: A system builder that claims to be green tech to the core
- Green client tech for non-desktop environments
- Video: The week in Green tech
Paul Murphy: Are certifications worth the money?
Roland Piquepaille:Producing insulin with human skin cells?
Bits: Will This E-Reader Replace Papers?
Dana Blankenhorn: Is open source politically attractive?
Intel's secret weapon: Fresh air
Steve O'Hear:Yahoo launches new social network; Twitter redesign; Rumor: Ebay selling off StumbleUpon