"As Windows 8 Looms, Tech Investors Hold Their Breath: PC sales are reeling, hit by wholesale defections to smartphones and tablets. Win 8 could re-energize the market. Is it too late for Hewlett-Packard and Dell?"
Barron's 8:39 AM
"Can a former Clinton spinmeister make Microsoft cool? Political operative Mark Penn helped Bill and Hillary Clinton; Tony Blair; and Bill Gates. Can he do as much to help Microsoft?"
CNET News 8:43 AM
"Microsoft opens a new Office: Microsoft may have just announced its first ever loss, but Office remains its biggest earner. Matt Warman reports on the new version"
Telegraph 9:11 AM
"Microsoft shows Office Web Apps updates: New version of browser-based, cloud-hosted suite improves performance and collaboration"
IDG News Service 9:21 AM
"All Windows 8 apps will offer a try-it-before-you-buy-it feature"
Today in Tech 9:04 AM
"Windows 8 Store: apps priced up to $999.99, Microsoft will take a smaller cut from top-sellers"
The Verge 1:13 PM
"Dell Software Head Swainson Aims For $5 Billion in Software Sales"
AllThingsD 7/20
"Dell Outlines Big Software Ambitions: Dell software chief John Swainson explains how Quest Software acquisition is key to Dell's big plans for security, systems management, and business intelligence software."
InformationWeek 7/20
"4 Ways Dell Is Becoming An Open Source Company"
Seeking Alpha 7/20
"Linux comes to ultrabooks: Dell to preload OS on XPS 13"
CNET News 7/20
"Compal lands 70% of Dell notebook orders for 2013"
DigiTimes 7/20
"Death of The PC Not The Death of H-P, Dell"
TheStreet 7/20
"Hewlett Packard and the Mirror of Erised"
The Motley Fool 7/20
"Analysts positive on Microsoft despite first quarterly loss"
Reuters 7/20
"Microsoft A Victim Of Its Own Success: For all its cash and market advantages, Microsoft is a company in decline."
InformationWeek 7/20
"Microsoft's Market Share Drops From 93 Percent to 4 Percent"
PC Magazine 7/20
"Microsoft's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Decade"
TechCrunch 7/20
"Microsoft needs to prove it can be mobile"
MarketWatch 7/20
"Windows Phone 8 and Office 2013: When will we see them?"
CNET News 7/20
"Third time is the charm? Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 Reportedly launches in November"
BGR 7/20
"Microsoft Can Do a Lot with the Next Office"
The Motley Fool 7/20
"Microsoft sizes up its cloud: Microsoft says it has 4 trillion objects in its cloud, handles 270,000 requests per second"
Network World 7/20
"Microsoft: Azure now holds FOUR TREELLION objects"
The Register 7/20
"Microsoft open-sources Entity Framework: Code release of .Net application development tool is being handled by Microsoft Open Technologies"
InfoWorld 7/20
"Microsoft fixes 'big boobs' coding gaffe"
BBC 7/20
"IBM plans to axe staff in UK, Ireland despite hefty profits: Big Blue bottom line means 'workforce remix'"
The Register 7/20
"Lenovo CEO Yang doles out US$3m bonus to staff: Production line workers, receptionists, call centre workers and others score CEO cash"
The Register 7/20
"Lenovo chief gives his $3m bonus to lower-paid workers"
ZDNet 7/20
"NoSQL Rebels Aim Missile At Larry Ellison's Yacht"
Wired Magazine 7/20
"CentOS penguins maul Oracle's Linux migration pitch: Having tried, and failed, to kill Red Hat Linux with Unbreakable Linux, Oracle is now sneaking up on CentOS."
The Register 7/20
"Will Intel Figure Out the Device Market?"
TheStreet 7/20
"AMD Shares Crushed On Weak Q3 Outlook; Analysts Fret About Inventory, Intel"
Forbes 7/20
"Barack Obama Takes on Cybersecurity: After years of courageously studying the matter, Congress has come up with a cybersecurity bill that's inoffensive enough that it may pass. If it does, don't expect it to make much of a difference. It's not like Washington really cares."
InformationWeek 7/20
"Obama warns US on cyber-threats: Cyber-attacks pose the 'most serious economic and national security' challenge America faces, said Barack Obama."
BBC 7/20
"PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf extolls language's modest start: PHP 5.5 may be out as early as the end of this year, PHP's principal maintainer states"
Techworld 7/20
"North America set to allow IPv4 address transfers to Asia: Letting users transfer their unused addresses outside the region could help to ease an IPv4 crunch in Asia"
IDG News Service 7/20
"IDC cuts growth rates in chip sales, how do others compare?"
ZDNet 7/20
"Even China can't halt PC sales decline: The powerhouse of the global PC market, the Asia Pacific region, has finally succumbed to economic volatility in other regions with Q2 shipments set to decline, according to analysts."
The Register 7/20
"Weak PC sales blamed on economic woes and mobile devices"
BBC 7/20
"For Executive Women, Is Maternity Leave Necessary?"
New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:06 PM
"Acxiom Consumer Data, Often Unavailable to Consumers"
New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:06 PM
"Google opens year-long Web Lab exhibition at the Science Museum: A series of 'interactive Chrome Experiments' have taken up residence in a basement gallery at the Science Museum."
Telegraph 9:11 AM
"He's Watching That, in Public? Pornography Takes Next Seat"
New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:45 AM
"Watch a 3,000-foot-wide asteroid hurtle near Earth online"
Yahoo! News 7/20
"Ford's 2013 C-Max Energi rolls out 95 MPGe, arrives later this fall"
Engadget 7/20
"Possible source of half of all web spam meets its end"
Yahoo! News 7/20
"Amazon's streaming exclusive on 'Fringe' won't last long: As in, it's over by the fall. Expect more short-lived deals like this one, which Amazon struck with Warner Bros., as streaming-Video proViders do battle while Hollywood proVides the bullets."
CNET News 7/20
"New Amazon deal brings Fringe, The West Wing and more to Prime Instant Video"
Boy Genius Report 7/20
"'The Cost of Connectivity' compares international broadband markets, finds US 'lagging'"
The Verge 7/20
"In First, Software Emulates Lifespan of Entire Organism"
New York Times 7/20
"SMS gets synchronized in the cloud"
TG Daily 7/20
"Analyst: Game consoles will be de-throned by connected TVs"
TG Daily 7/20
"No News Is Good News? Dropbox Says No Intrusions Found, Investigation Continues"
TechCrunch 7/20
"Lowe's Brings Home Automation to the Masses"
PCWorld 7/20
"Like what you see on TV? Buy it now.: New technology allows TV viewers to buy what they see on the screen -- without getting up from the couch."
Fortune 7/20
"Eidos Life President Ian Livingstone On The Future of Games, The Resale Issue, and Zombies"
Forbes 7/20
"Nexus 7 sees 'incredible demand', sells out at major retailers"
ZDNet 7/20
"Google shakes up Android Jelly Bean to fend off malware meanies: Android Jelly Bean 4.1 promises to be more secure than previous versions of the Google's mobile OS."
The Register 7/20
"IBM Helps Altyntau Resources Find Gold in Kazakhstan"
PRNewswire 7/20
Microsoft
"8-year old Pakistani boy clears Microsoft specialist exams"
Indo-Asian News Service 9:23 AM
"Will Windows Phones Replace BlackBerrys as Bargaining Chip?"
New York Times 7/20
"Microsoft prototype stylus would work on any device screen"
CNET News 7/20
"Microsoft Could Head To $41 As New Launches Provide Catalysts"
Forbes 7/20
"Microsoft has 99 problems, but Office ain't one"
MarketWatch 7/20
"'Minecraft' sales on Xbox top 3 million"
USA Today 7/20
"Microsoft's Shift to the Cloud: What It Means for You/With Office 2013 and Windows 8, Microsoft launches into its most ambitious strategic shift since the original release of Internet Explorer"
PCWorld 7/20
"Office 2013 shifts security focus from devices to identities: Forthcoming version of Office, with ties to the cloud and broader device support, means fundamental change for security management"
InfoWorld 7/20
"Review: Microsoft System Center targets cloud, virtualization/New management suite delivers orchestration tools for large-scale, multivendor environments"
Network World 7/20
"David vs. Goliath: Who's afraid of Mr. Softee? One of the world's largest clothing chains? A day-care-center giant? Not one of these three entrepreneurs."
Fortune 7/20
"Microsoft's iPad Killer: Introducing The Xbox Surface"
Seeking Alpha 7/20
"They Just Don't Get Microsoft!" [Video Report]
TheStreet 7/20
Government/Law/Politics
"Minecraft developer sued by aggressive litigator over DRM patent"
Ars Technica 6:57 PM
"Kleiner Loses Bid for Arbitration in Discrimination Case"
New York Times 7/20
"Judge denies Kleiner bid to arbitrate sex discrimination case"
CNET News 7/20
"UK government shamed over Gary McKinnon extradition debacle"
V3 7/20
"Megaupload's Dotcom appeals to Obama supporters in music video"
ZDNet 7/20
"Shocker: Government agency drafts sensible cloud computing strategy/But Department of Defense's cloud plan could be at risk if it continues to rely on the same old IT contractors"
InfoWorld 7/20
"Securing Federal Employees' Mobile Devices: Big Opportunities, Big Challenges"
E-Commerce Times 7/20
"Twitter will appeal order to turn over protester'ss messages: Twitter maintains the order doesn't balance the rights of its users versus the interests of law enforcement"
IDG News Service 7/20
"Twitter to appeal ruling on Occupy protest tweets"
Associated Press 7/20
"Hacker Arrested for 2008 DDoS Attacks on Amazon.com"
PCWorld 7/20
"Amazon.com DDoS Attacker Busted In Cyprus: Attacker and accomplice allegedly also launched botnet-driven attacks against eBay and Priceline, then offered to fix the problem."
InformationWeek 7/20
"Smartphones of Summer: The 12 Hottest Handhelds/The 12 best high-end smartphones available this summer season, from handset makers Samsung, Motorola, Apple, HTC, Nokia and more." [Slideshow]
CIO 7/20
"The 20 best tech wins of 2012 (so far)" [Slideshow]
PCWorld 7/20
"Who's embracing BYOD? Probably not who you think"
InfoWorld 7/20
"The Death of SEO: The Rise of Social, PR, and Real Content"
Forbes 7/20
"Facebook Less Trusted Than Amazon, Google In Data Use, Poll Says"
Bloomberg 7/20
"Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Vs. The Mommy Judges: The mommy judges couldn't wait to weigh in on Marissa Mayer. But in their quest for answers, the judges miss the truth."
InformationWeek 7/20
"Yahoo Heroine Mayer Boards Ship Lost In Space: As dramatic narrative, it doesn't get much better than this. Here's why we must root for Yahoo's heroic young CEO to save the day."
InformationWeek 7/20
"Marissa Mayer Is Not The Exception - She Is The Norm"
Forbes 7/20
"Will Yahoo Get Back on its Feet Again?"
The Motley Fool 7/20
"Cameras Are Cyclists' 'Black Boxes' in Accidents"
"He's Watching That, in Public? Pornography Takes Next Seat"
Reuters
(Checked 9:05 PM; no changes since 9:15 AM CDT)
"Nasdaq to unveil Facebook compensation plan next week: report"
"Google shares rise as strong ad business eases macro fears"
"EU wants Google concessions for all platforms: sources"
TechWeb
(Checked 9:05 PM CDT; no changes since Friday)
"Google Buys Sparrow To Lift Gmail"
"Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Vs. The Mommy Judges"
"Myth Of Systems Of Record Vs. Systems Of Engagement"
"Microsoft's Fourth Quarter Shines, Despite Loss"
"Nexus 7 Arrival Incites 7-Inch Tablet Brawl"
"GM's IT Overhaul: 5 Critical Questions"
"Microsoft A Victim Of Its Own Success"
"Physicians May Overestimate EHR Capabilities"
"Yahoo Heroine Mayer Boards Ship Lost In Space"
"Police Make Wide Use Of Social Tools"
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