| Editor'snote: Has Google abandoned its mission to advocate for consumers in the US wireless industry? It sure feels like it, as I explain in this week's Monday column. Also get tips for troubleshooting a slow PC and see why the cloud may not be an IT nightmare. -Jason Google raises the white flag on transforming the US wireless industry In order to guarantee Android's success in 2010, Google has snuggled up to the telecoms and given up on changing the US wireless industry to make it better for consumers. Read more | News from ZDNet | | | New York Times says we're in a 'tech bubble': everyone agree? Tech deals approach levels last seen in the year 2000, many driven by social media and mobile companies. Is this dot-com redux or something new? Read more | | Apple launches iOS 4.2, iPad gets AirPrint Apple's iOS 4.2 is now available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The most notable features include multitasking, unified inbox and AirPrint, a Wi-Fi printing architecture. Read more | | iOS 4.2 released; Find My iPhone free for all Apple today announced iOS 4.2.1 bringing iOS 4 features to the iPad for the first time. Apple is also offering its Find My iPhone service free of charge, for the first time. Read more | | Report: Shift to cloud doesn't have to be a CIO's nightmare What are your company's policies around the cloud? Do you even have any? New data by IDG Research Services about the shift to cloud computing in the enterprise revealed that only 34 percent of the organizations surveyed have a governance policy for cloud-based information. Many of those say they're not confident about... Read more | | Murdoch's iPad newspaper: Nice try, but no chance There was some buzz over the weekend that a team over at News Corp., the parent company behind the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, is hard at work on an iPad-only "newspaper," called The Daily, set to launch sometime around Christmas. A digital newspaper is an interesting idea, but this... Read more | | The storage network for the rest of us A 6 year old storage company you've never heard of got a $25 million VC injection last week. That's big money. The promise: the lowest-cost and highest performance storage network in the world. Is this the storage network for the rest of us? Read more | | Google launches Microsoft Office connector: Keep your legacy Office, use our cloud Google on Monday launched a cloud connector to Microsoft Office so documents can use Google Docs to collaborate. Here's how it works. Read more | | Mac users can't afford to have their heads in the sand over malware Mac might not be under attack from as much malware as Windows, but according to security firm Sophos, users can't afford to have their heads in the sand. Read more | | Clearwire's 4G takes on Northeast Corridor train line, loses When Clearwire's 4G service works on the New Jersey Transit into New York it's a beautiful thing. Unfortunately, you spend more time looking at the connection manager software than your work. Read more | | Copia rolls out social e-book reading platform Copia has launched its own e-book reading program, which the company touts as the "world’s first truly social eReading platform." Read more | | Microsoft to test limits of Kinect market The Kinect interface is Version 1.0 of something that might evolve into something cool. It could well become more important than the XBox it was built to support. Read more | | Netflix has pricing power as streaming overtakes DVD rentals Netflix revamped its subscription rates and introduced a $7.99 a month streaming-only plan. In addition, the company raised its base DVD rental service to $9.99 a month, up $1. Read more | | Verizon Wireless really screwed up the Samsung Tab with pricing and policy A combination of reactivation, activation and hidden fees make the Verizon Wireless Samsung Tab one to think twice about Read more |
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