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"US government sides against Microsoft in Supreme Court patent case: Oral arguments to begin on April 18 with technology companies rallying behind Microsoft in hopes of software patent reform, and government, science and venture capitalists siding with i4i"
Network World 4:13 PM
"Oracle could make $1 million from Sun.com sale: 11th oldest domain to be decommissioned in June"
Techworld 4:39 PM
"Oracle puts out Solaris 11 compatibility tester"
The Register 4:41 PM
"Gateway rolls out NV Series laptops with latest AMD processors"
ZDNet 12:30 PM
"Budget Gateways Get AMD Muscle"
PC Magazine 4:05 PM
"Intel Courted H-P Executive"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:37 AM
"Intel Courted HP Executive: Report/Intel reportedly spoke with HP PC executive Todd Bradley about moving to the chip maker, a move seen as Intel strengthening its lineup of possible successors to CEO Paul Otellini. Bradley has opted to stay with HP."
eWeek 10:40 AM
"Cisco unveils secure telecommuting products: The wireless products are said to be easy to use and offer a fast connection for telecommuters"
Computerworld 11:12 AM
"Cisco scraps biannual advisory due to Japan disaster"
ZDNet UK 12:32 PM
"Report: 25% of World's Chip Wafer Production Stopped After Quake"
PC Magazine 4:05 PM
"Scientists work toward 'forever' storage: Today, long-term data storage requires constant oversight. But researchers hope cool new technologies will change that soon."
Computerworld 10:30 AM
"The Future of Laptops: Really Thin and Fast/The new low-voltage, high-speed performance chips for mobile devices will also revolutionize the future of laptop design. They'll be thinner, faster, and more powerful."
PC Magazine 11:29 AM
"Death of Moore's Law will cause economic crisis: Silicon Valley could be next rust belt, predicts physicist Michio Kaku"
Techworld 12:04 PM
"Japan earthquake has implications for Moore's Law, too"
Ars Technica 8:37 PM
General Interest
"Dismissed as a joke, Twitter revolutionises the way we communicate"
Sydney Morning Herald 8:36 PM
"Jelly-Like Muscles Give Robots More Flexibility"
PCWorld 4:09 PM
"Human error leads to Tumblr security breach"
ZDNet UK 12:33 PM
"Amazon App store expected to launch Tuesday"
ZDNet 12:30 PM
"Google Installs Wireless EV Charging Station"
Wired 4:49 PM
"Google's New Chrome Icon: Less Simon-Like, More Hurricane-Like; Easier To Draw"
TechCrunch 4:37 PM
"Check-In Wars Reborn? Google And Facebook Both Making Big Pushes"
TechCrunch 4:37 PM
"Zynga: 'FarmVille' maker hopes to get players hooked on rewards"
Associated Press 11:51 AM
"On the company dime: Rogue game server admins tell all"
Network World 11:41 AM
"Yahoo's Offers Cookie Opt-out Button Ahead of New EU Law"
IDG News Service 11:37 AM
"Binfire Boosts Project Management In Collaboration App: The cloud-based software gets a real-time, interactive whiteboard, tagging, and free-form search."
InformationWeek 11:09 AM
"Renesas restarts hampered by black outs"
EE Times 10:38 AM
"Asustek set to ship Honeycomb tablet"
IDG News Service 10:27 AM
"Rumor: Sprint to reveal 3D 'Evo' phone this week"
TG Daily 12:16 PM
"Sprint Brings New Features to Samsung Epic 4G and Samsung Galaxy Tab"
PC Magazine 11:26 AM
"Google's Nexus S 4G Coming to Sprint This Spring"
VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 10:05 AM
"Sprint and Google Voice Numbers Can Now be One and the Same"
PCWorld 11:35 AM
"Google Voice Can Act as Your Only Number — on Sprint Phones"
VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 10:04 AM
"Adobe rolls out Flash patches to fix zero-day flaw"
V3 4:42 PM
"Adobe intros Flash Player 10.2 for mobile"
V3 12:25 PM
"Flash 10.2 addresses shortcomings on Android"
CNET News 9:59 AM
"Toshiba 10-inch tablet pops up on Amazon"
CNET News 9:59 AM
"AT&T announces its own glasses-free 3D phone"
TG Daily 12:17 PM
"T-Mobile's AT&T-mocking ads likely to retire"
Associated Press 3:27 PM
"AT&T: T-Mobile 3G phones will need to be replaced"
Associated Press 10:34 AM
"AT&T promises better service from merger"
MarketWatch 9:41 AM
"Nokia expects production disruption"
EE Times 3:29 PM
"Nokia sees phone shortage due to Japan quake"
Reuters [Free Registration Required] 11:07 AM
"Nokia sees earnings unaffected by Japan earthquake"
MarketWatch 9:41 AM
"Nokia Reloads Symbian System"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:36 AM
"Web Shows Get Ambitious: Tech, Media Companies Race to Create Video Hits That Look, Feel More Like TV"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:36 AM
"Concerns About Japan to Preoccupy Conference: Japan, and not the latest mobile applications and devices, will likely be the major undercurrent to conversations held this week at the U.S. wireless industry's annual confab in Orlando, Fla."
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:36 AM
"iPad, Galaxy, Xoom: As the Tablet World Turns"
TheStreet 9:32 AM
"The tiny cube that could cut your cell phone bill"
CNNMoney 9:31 AM
"Twitter turns 5, celebrates with celebrities in YouTube video"
Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 3:59 PM
"Happy 5th Birthday, Twitter! 10 Top Tweets of the Past 5 Years: First Official Tweet Made March 21, 2006 by Co-Founder Jack Dorsey"
ABCNews 10:13 AM
"Twitter turns 5, goes from 0 to 140 million tweets a day"
CNNMoney 9:31 AM
Press Releases
"AMD Hires Mike Wolfe as New CIO"
Marketwire 5:08 PM
"Cisco Wireless Solutions Extend Corporate Network Performance From Headquarters to the Home for Teleworkers"
Marketwire 9:46 AM
"HP Opens New Market Opportunities to Banks with Prepaid Card Services"
Business Wire 9:48 AM
"Women's Bond Club Honors IBM's Sarah Diamond, Center for Work-Life Policy Founding President Sylvia Ann Hewlett"
PRNewswire 5:10 PM
"IBM and Cable&Wireless Worldwide Announce UK Smart Energy Cloud"
PRNewswire 9:52 AM
Microsoft
"Drunk On Licensing Fees And Patents, Microsoft Has Become A Joke"
TechCrunch 7:30 PM
"Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec for Patent Infringement by Android Devices: Statement from Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing"
PRNewswire 5:11 PM
"Microsoft throws down the gauntlet at Android tablets"
ZDNet 4:51 PM
"There's more than one way for Microsoft to compete with Android"
ZDNet 4:51 PM
"Senators start talks on larger cybersecurity bill: Senior Senate staff members working on the issue of cybersecurity and how to address it in law"
Federal Computer Week 3:33 PM
"Privacy Bill of Rights: Could Be a Long Slog"
E-Commerce Times 3:30 PM
"AT&T/T-Mobile expected to survive regulatory review"
Reuters 5:18 PM
"AT&T Deal Is Key Test for Obama Regulators"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:43 PM
"How to slay a cellphone with a single text: SMS of Death explained"
The Register 12:20 PM
"Can Google help turn trash into gasoline?"
Fortune 3:36 PM
"Global CIO: Even For Google, No Free Pass For SaaS/Google has made a notable concession to business users of Google Apps. It's a sign of things to come for software as a service, as enterprise customers get more demanding."
InformationWeek 12:49 PM
"Analysis: Does Google's Android use 'stolen' Linux code?"
TG Daily 12:17 PM
"Should you stop using RSA SecurID tokens? RSA needs to clarify what happened to SecurID, NSS Labs says"
Network World 11:42 AM
"Mobile payments in U.S.: Creative chaos or just chaos? It's the telcos vs. the banks, with Google and Apple as wild cards"
Network World 11:41 AM
"Wanted: Tech-Savvy Board of Directors"
Computerworld 11:41 AM
"The Rise and Fall of Telephone Competition: 1982-2011"
PCWorld 11:38 AM
"Why batteries die: Gizmodo explains how they work, why they die and how they can improve"
Gizmodo 11:20 AM
"Facebook's Rise Is a Big Deal for Media Sites. For the Rest of the Web, Not So Much."
AllThingsD 12:44 PM
"How to avoid Facebook chat hijackings"
MSNBC 11:20 AM
"CEO showdown: Apotheker vs. Ellison vs. Palmisano/What if you put Oracle's Larry Ellison and IBM's Sam Palimisano to the same test HP's Léo Apotheker endured last week?"
InfoWorld 11:13 AM
"Cloud storage still questioned by many IT executives: Concerns about security, privacy, and compliance often deter IT professionals from putting enterprise data into the cloud"
Computerworld 11:12 AM
"Xobni turns inbox inside out"
The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 11:07 AM
"Why I Won't Be At SXSW Next Year"
Forbes 12:41 PM
"With SXSW over, what's next for group messaging?"
CNET News 9:59 AM
"And the World's Most Valuable Brand Is..."
CNBC 9:55 AM
"Most people want to work for Google" [Audio Report]
MarketWatch 9:54 AM
"Google Is No. 1 on List Of Desired Employers"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:34 AM
"Today in Tech: AT&T buys T-Mobile, Android Kindle?"
Fortune 11:03 AM
"Further reading: Companies return to VC and Hewlett-Packard fights back"
Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:56 AM
"AT&T's Big Buy: Morning Tech Bytes"
TheStreet 9:32 AM
"The 10 Best AT&T/T-Mobile Phones: If the largest wireless merger in recent history were approved today, what would the ñber-carrier's lineup look like? We make our picks for the 10 best phones." [Slideshow]
PC Magazine 11:27 AM
"New phones, services likely if AT&T deal OK'd"
USA Today 12:23 PM
"AT&T's T-Mobile Purchase Is a Bad Call"
PC Magazine 4:04 PM
"What the AT&T & T-Mobile Acquisition Means for Everyone"
Techland 12:23 PM
"Why the AT&T/T-Mobile merger is a disconnect"
Houston Chronicle 11:08 AM
"Meet The Old Ma, Same As The Old Ma: Five Reasons Wireless Subscribers Will Suffer Under AT&T/T-Mobile Deal"
InformationWeek 10:08 AM
"How AT&T's T-Mobile Acquisition Will Make Its Network Better"
VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 10:04 AM
"What AT&T-T-Mobile deal could mean for customers"
Associated Press 9:57 AM
"AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Could Be Disastrous for Subscribers"
Minyanville 9:53 AM
"Why AT&T's deal for T-Mobile must be blocked"
MarketWatch 9:41 AM
"5 Pros and Cons for AT&T's T-Mobile Buyout"
PCWorld 11:35 AM
"The AT&T/T-Mobile Deal: Sorting Out The Winners and Losers"
Forbes 11:00 AM
"6 Winners, Losers in AT&T Deal: Tech Edge"
TheStreet 9:32 AM
Acquisitions/Deals/Investments/Mergers
"Amazon Gives Kindle Book-Swapping Service Lendle The Axe"
TechCrunch 7:19 PM
"STMicroelectronics and Gemalto partner for secure NFC"
ZDNet UK 4:52 PM
"Andreessen-Horowitz Brings Enterprise Pro Peter Levine on Board"
VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 5:17 PM
"Andreessen Horowitz Bulks Up Further: Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said it has brought Peter Levine, a senior vice president of virtual-computing company Citrix Systems, on board as a venture partner."
WSJ Blogs 4:46 PM
"Chipmaker Broadcom to Acquire Closely Held Provigent in $313 Million Deal"
Bloomberg 3:10 PM
"'Huge Wave' of M&As to Hit Silicon Valley and Boutique Banks Notice"
VentureBeat [Free Registration Required] 12:48 PM
"Security Software Maker AVG Announces $235 Million Financing Deal"
TechCrunch 11:59 AM
"Social Game Developer A Bit Lucky Scores $5M From Nexon"
TechCrunch 11:59 AM
"Sprint teams up with Google Voice"
Fortune 11:04 AM
"Asustek to invest US$50 million to set up second China operational headquarters in western region"
DigiTimes 10:37 AM
"Telekom Austria Places Lone Bid for 51% Government Stake in Telekom Srbija"
Bloomberg 10:18 AM
"AT&T to buy T-Mobile, creating wireless giant: The telecom firm's surprise $39-billion acquisition of its smaller rival could lead to further consolidation in the U.S. wireless industry."
Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 10:25 AM
"Investors cheer AT&T-T-Mobile USA deal"
Reuters 10:06 AM
"AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion"
Associated Press 9:57 AM
"AT&T agrees to buy T-Mobile USA"
Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 9:43 AM
"News Hub: AT&T to Buy T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion" [Video Report]
MarketWatch 9:43 AM
"AT&T to Buy Rival in $39 Billion Deal"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:37 AM
"Sprint Concerned About AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile USA"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:36 AM
Tech Stocks
"Nasdaq Bid Seen by Some As Tough Sell"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:37 AM
"Buffett: Still Wary Of Tech Stocks, Says Bloomberg"
Barron's 9:46 AM
"Buffett Agrees: There is Opportunity in Japan's Tech Losses"
Forbes 3:34 PM
"These Tech Stocks Will Make Me Rich"
The Motley Fool 12:41 PM
"Picking Tech Earnings Winners and Losers: Micron, Oracle, and Jabil"
Indie Research 12:40 PM
"Telecom Stocks: AT&T sparks telecom action with $39 bln deal for T-Mobile"
MarketWatch 12:35 PM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m."
Associated Press 5:09 PM
"Microsoft, Intel, Cisco highlight tech gains: Shares of EMC jump on Goldman Sachs upgrade"
MarketWatch 5:01 PM
"U.S. stocks gain for third session on merger hopes: Analyst heralds return of 'Merger Monday' and more deals to come"
MarketWatch 5:01 PM
"US Stocks Climb, Buoyed By Telecom Deal, Energy Sector"
MarketWatch 9:42 AM
"Stocks rally for third day, Dow jumps 178"
CNNMoney 5:01 PM
"Stocks Finish Higher for Third Session on Deal News"
TheStreet 5:02 PM
"Cyber Command Pursues 'Defensible' IT Architecture"
"AT&T T-Mobile Deal Sets Industry Abuzz"
"Microsoft Files Another Android Lawsuit"
"25% Of Global Silicon Wafer Production Suspended"
"Facebook iFrames: Good For Business, Bad For Security?"
"Down To Business: Don't Dismiss The iPad And Other Tablets As Just Hype"
"Google Says China Is Hindering Gmail"
"DARPA Expands Robotics Program"
"Government Eyeing Security Technology To Prevent Another Wikileaks"
"Sprint's Windows Phone 7 Entry On Sale Now"
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