Web Technology
Google Buzz: Forget Twitter, SharePoint a bigger target
Larry Dignan: With the launch of Google's new social Gmail experiment, the "Twitter killer" comments will be a dime a dozen. But from an enterprise perspective, Google Buzz has a far larger target in mind: Microsoft's SharePoint.
Companies
SAP: Hasso Plattner back at the helm. Job no.1: rebuild trust
Dennis Howlett: After the weekend's news of Leo Apotheker's abrupt departure and the re-establishment of co-CEO's in Jim Snabe and Bill McDermott, SAP hosted a webcast on the situation with Hasso Plattner talking as chairman of the supervisory board.
IT Management
CIOs: iPad, slate PCs have a business role
Jason Hiner: TechRepublic polled its 100-member panel of U.S. IT executives and asked, "Is there a business case to be made for the iPad and other slate PCs?" Here's how they voted.
Operating Systems
Is Windows 7 reliability fix making PCs less reliable?
Mary Jo Foley: There are reports in a TechNet forum that claim a recently released reliability and stability patch for Windows 7 may end up making some PCs less reliable and stable.
Security
Oracle rushes out patch for gaping server hole
Oracle has released an out-of-band patch to fix a gaping security hole in the Oracle WebLogic Node Manager and warned that an attacker could launch remote attacks over a network without the need for a username and password.
Product Review Blogs
Apple's Mac: What's behind the success?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: If you bought your first Mac at some point during the last few years, what was it that drove you to make the switch? Was it the Intel chip inside the box or Boot camp or something else?
Communications
AT&T Navigator 1.5i update adds speed limit alerts
Matthew Miller: There are quite a few new enhancements in this new iPhone version that provides you with features not seen in any other version of AT&T Navigator/TeleNav.
Enterprise Hardware
Server wars: Intel, HP vs. IBM
Larry Dignan: Unix servers may not be the most glamorous market in IT, but the big players are duking it out to grab more share. IBM will launch new Power7 systems while HP and Intel will show off their latest Itanium.
Enterprise Software
Is cloud computing hype, or something riskier?
Joe McKendrick: The rush to the cloud is ripe for disaster. A lot of new cloud providers are going to over extend and over sell, and they're going to crash.
General News
LHC to run for longest continuous period
The Large Hadron Collider is about to enter its longest continuous operational period, in preparation for full-strength particle-smashing.
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