Goodbye Firefox. Hello Chromium. After using Firefox for six years, I've finally come to the end of the road with it. Learn why, as well as why I chose Chromium to replace it as my primary Web browser. Read more | News from ZDNet | | Has Motorola only sold 100,000 Xooms? According to Business Insider, Motorola's Xoom tablet is a 'flop' having only sold 100,000 units so far. But are these numbers accurate? Do they even matter? Read more | Motorola's Xoom: Are 100,000 units sold disappointing or decent? The guessing game swirling around Motorola's Xoom tablet sure is fun to watch. One analyst is estimating that Motorola Mobility has sold about 100,000 Xoom units so far. The big question is... Read more | HTC bigger than Nokia, RIM; tablets not included HTC, the top Android smartphone maker, has passed Nokia in market cap, a stunning achievement. The Taiwanese handset producer was early to jump on the Android platform, a good move. Read more | LinkedIn opens APIs to broader Web: Will you use your professional identity? LinkedIn opened up its application programming interfaces to all developers in a bid to sprinkle your personal identity throughout software and the Web. Read more | Breaking news: Senate repeals one of the health care act's more onerous provisions Had it gone live, it would have been a bookkeeping nightmare. Read more | iPad at Work: The Essential Guide for Business Users Apple's iPad is an impressive piece of technology. Here's what you need to know to get the most out of it as a business tool. Read more | Cisco's network gets a tune up Cisco CEO John Chambers has been bold in his experimentation with ââ¬Åco-ordinate and cultivateââ¬? over ââ¬Åcommand and controlââ¬? at the helm of the forty billion dollar global behemoth over the... Read more | HP plans to create software hub in Bay Area HP said that it will consolidate software offices around the Bay Area that became company property via the acquisitions of Fortify and ArcSight among others Read more | 20 Years of Linux down, and the best is yet to come The movers and shakers of Linux gather in San Francisco to celebrate Linuxââ¬â¢s 20th anniversary and to look to its future. Read more | Yahoo: The Linux Company Everyone knows that Google runs on Linux, but at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, Yahoo revealed just how much it too replies on Linux. Read more | PlayBook due in a fortnight: Still no advertising campaign With less than 14 days before the BlackBerry PlayBook hits the stores, the advertising campaign has yet to begin. Or maybe it already has, and this is it: sweet nothing. Read more | Is a non-3G Samsung Galaxy Tab attractive at $349? Samsung is rolling out a WiFi only Galaxy Tab for $349, but I think a 3G Galaxy Tab makes more sense with the 7 inch display. Read more | WeFi -- Crowdsourced hotspot locator for mobile professionals Mobile professionals know the value of finding free WiFi hotspots, and one of the best ways to find them is with WeFi. Read more | MLB stops streaming free games on Facebook for regular season Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB.com, says the trial was successful, but it wasn't popular enough to warrant being extended for future games. Read more | Dish buys Blockbuster in bankruptcy: Internet streaming rights key Dish Network won a bankruptcy auction for Blockbuster with a bid of $320 million and on the surface the deal sounds a little bit crazy. What's Dish going to do with 1,700 store locations and a... Read more | Featured multimedia | | Vintage Computer Advertisements from the late 1970s Check out these computer advertisements from the 1970s! View on site |  | 10 iPad 2 apps for business iPad 2 owners will be able to find more apps for business that take advantage of the gadget's increased processing power. View on site |  | Samsung Galaxy Prevail hands-on (photos) Boost Mobile will get its first CDMA Android device in late April, but CNET has a hands-on preview right now. Check out the Samsung Galaxy Prevail. View on site |  | Images from the Kepler, Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer space telescopes This gallery features images from the Kepler Space Telescope, as well as images from other space telescopes -- specifically, Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer -- that offer valuable insight into the Kepler research project's objective. View on site |  | Apple MacBook Pro Quad-core i7 teardown Bill Detwiler cracks open the 2011 Apple MacBook Pro. This series notebook sports an Intel Quad-Core Intel i7 CPU, AMD Radeon HD 6490M GPU, 150GB Toshiba SSD, and 4GB of RAM. View on site |  | |  |  | About this newsletter | The Tech Sanity Check newsletter is my daily update on the world of technology. You'll get my opinions, reviews, user polls, and hand-picked stories of the day. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief
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