News to know: Social media spam; Sprint; Windows Mobile; Google
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Jennifer Leggio: Snake oil at its slickest: A social media spam story
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Silverlight 3 available for download
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- Bing: Bringing Microsoft's 'convenience search' strategy to life
- Windows Mobile 6.5: How touchy will it be?
- CNet News: Clippy stars in new Office 2010 promo video
- Larry Dignan: Clippy's back: Can Office 10 live up to the trailer?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: CA antivirus trashing Windows system files
- The United States of broadband: All of the speed is on the east coast
- In an economic downturn, prepaid mobile is big business
Michael Krigsman: The CIO's role in success and failure: An IT failures town hall
- Beyond Kumbaya: More on ROI for customer service communities
- Dana Gardner: Paglo SaaS offering provides means to harness untamed collection of log and IT resources data
- Dignan: SAP: Is the worst over?
- Dennis Howlett: SAP to bounce?
Jason O'Grady: Apple files patents for object and facial recognition for the iPhone
Bloomberg: NetApp May Be Acquisition Target After Losing Data Domain, Analysts Say
Dana Blankenhorn: Eurocrats face proprietary FUD attack
Five ways Microsoft has changed since Gates left
Tech Flash: Amazon launches online cellular store with phones and plans
Total Telecom: Spending on social networks to shrink, eMarketer says
Kingsley-Hughes: Google announces Chrome OS tech partners ... The threat to Microsoft (and Linux as a whole) grows
- Mozilla playing catch-up with Microsoft and Google
- Google's Chrome OS: A threat to Intel and the rise of ARM chips
- Diaz: Video of the day: Prankster mocks those who linked to fake Chrome OS images
- Google reveals winners of bug contest
Heather Clancy: Quick factoid about IBM's asset recovery services
Harry Fuller: U.S. government whistle-blower on global warming