News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite

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Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3

• Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer
• VMware’s Datacenter OS: Windows isn’t the competition

Dancho Danchev: Google downplays Chrome's carpet-bombing flaw

• Adam O'Donnell: Even Mac users have to patch
• Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal Downloads

Jason Perlow: Economic crisis as a technology change agent

• Larry Dignan: Forrester cuts 2009 IT spending projections
• Dell: Demand is worse than we thought; Ingram Micro agrees; Best Buy misses
• Adobe allays worries; Sets up for CS4 launch
• Fred Wilson: Leave Wall Street, Join A Startup
• Bits: Silicon Valley Layoff Watch: Is eBay Next?
• Dennis Howlett: Seesmic layoffs and a new reality?

Robin Harris: Your capacity will varyJohn Morris:First reviews of HP's HDX 16- and 18.4-inch laptops

Financial Times: Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman

WSJ: Samsung Makes Bid for SanDisk

• Dignan: SanDisk plays hard to get as Samsung (and maybe Toshiba) eye takeover

Phil Wainewright: NetSuite parts ways with largest reseller

Michael Krigsman: J.Crew: Failed upgrade hits financial performance

Dana Blankenhorn: Is HP working on a proprietary Linux fork?

Paul Murphy: Why "better" often doesn't sell

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: DECE - Lipstick on the DRM pig

Mozilla admits that Firefox EULA is flawed

• Ryan Stewart: So wait, Firefox is a fax machine?
• Joe Brockmeier:Mozilla: We goofed on the EULA, let's talk

Jennifer Leggio: Social networks more popular than porn

Dennis Howlett: A moment of lucidity

Zack Whittaker: PacketTrap gives enterprise "Perspective".

TechRepublic: How do I... Run Linux/UNIX clients on Windows with XWin32 Live?

• Enabling the Windows Server Backup feature in Windows Server 2008
• Why outsourcing is scaring off potential CS students

Computerworld: Lehman Brothers invested in IT despite credit crunch

Heather Clancy: Tech trade-ins: Two new options for extending the life of your mobile phone

CIO Sessions: Cisco CIO: Rebecca Jacoby

• Cutting costs with TelePresence
• Integrating acquisitions
• Accessing the R&D budget

YouTube profit (and revenue) watch intensifies

• Google: The future of online video

Richard Koman: Groups fear secret IP treatyGigaOM Interview: Bill Hambrecht, Legendary Silicon Valley Banker

Paula Rooney: Maritz: VMware's Virtual DataCenter OS, VMware View is better next gen operating system than Windows and Hyper-V

• Dan Kusnetzky: Notes from VMworld
• Citrix aims high with XenServer 5, cloud center
• VMware rolls out Fusion 2.0 for Mac virtualization
• Citrix launches XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3)
• TechRepublic: Can VMware supercede Linux and Windows servers with its Virtual Datacenter OS?

Brian Sommer: Is That Non-Compete Too Broad?

AP: McCain Invented Blackberry?  Adviser Says He Helped

Sam Diaz:What makes Web shoppers click "Buy" or "Bye"?

Joshua Greenbaum: Microsoft Dynamics Goes for the Mid-market (Again)

Garett Rogers: Google Desktop gets huge performance boost

Matthew Miller: Google Android device will be announced on T-Mobile on 23 September

• BlackBerry Storm video and Verizon Q&A posted
• Star Wars Force Unleashed now available in the iPhone App store
• Zune 3.0 now available, also get free WiFi access at McDonald's

Roland Piquepaille: First true 3-D processor runs in labs

Andrew Nusca: Best Buy Geek Squad 'Black Tie Protection' promises premium service, cummerbunds

• Zune Wi-Fi coming to a McDonald's near you
• Google-based T-Mobile 'Dream' coming next month
• 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'

Jason O'Grady: Google releases Gears for Safari

• Richard Solo iPhone battery updated

Christopher Dawson: It's OK to outsource

Jennifer Leggio: And in this corner... Present.ly packs a solid punch against Yammer

Video: How HP's layoffs will impact IT

Paul Miller: Cognition Technologies unveils their Semantic Map

• Powerset studies student use of Wikipedia... and faculty resistance
• Oliver Marks: Sophisticated Customer Relationship Collaboration with MindTouch & SnapLogic

Kingsley-Hughes: The "As close to $150 as you can get it" PC

Richard Koman: EU scrutinizes Google-Yahoo deal

• Technology could have averted fatal LA train crash

Cheat sheet: SEO

Janice Chen: More hints about the Canon EOS 5D replacement

Leaked Homeland Security doc warns of data threats

Porn passed over as Web users become social--author

Harry Fuller: One, long unbroken string of weather records--what do they tell us?

• The real life cost of trying to ignore nature