News from ZDNet | | Amazon press event - Sept 28 ... Kindle tablet? Is Amazon getting ready to unveil the long awaited Kindle tablet? Read more | Amazon calls press conference: Tablet on deck? The company has called a press conference next Wednesday in New York. Sounds like it's tablet time. Read more | Leo Apotheker's HP legacy: a global vision As Leo Apotheker departs HP, perhaps his lasting legacy is to give HP a truly global vision and a strategy of capturing the markets, rather than just the corporate treasury, to drive sustainable... Read more | HP CEO Whitman pushing for PC unit decision by end of the year Now that HP's new CEO, Meg Whitman, is in place, there are a lot of questions to answer -- namely with what to do about HP's PC unit. Read more | HP's Lane on why Apotheker had to go Although HP's conference call to introduce Meg Whitman as CEO revolved around her capabilities, a lot of Ray Lane's time was throwing Leo Apotheker under the bus. Read more | RIM's enterprise standing slips, says Forrester The turnabout in the enterprise highlights how RIM's core foundation has been rattled by consumerization. Read more | Windows Phone Mango update likely coming to AT&T folks on 27 September Windows Phone 7 with the Mango update is my personal favorite mobile phone operating system and all indications are that the update is coming next week to most AT&T customers. Read more | Oracle wants $1.16 billion in damages from Google Oracle has had trouble pinpointing an estimate of damages it claims to have incurred on Google's part. Read more | Via patent suit may give Apple the most trouble Mobile chipmaker Via Technologies has sued Apple for violating three of its microprocessor-related patents. The folks in Cupertino may have problems with this one. Read more | Google: Facebook is becoming "a closed walled garden" A Google executive believes that Facebook is becoming "a closed walled garden" and will soon end up like AOL and IBM: it will have to completely change its business in order to survive. Read more | Microsoft quietly delivers a first beta of WebMatrix 2.0 Web-development suite Microsoft has made available for download a first beta of its WebMatrix 2.0 tool bundle for Web developers. Read more | ThinkPad Tablet: Ready for the boardroom (review) The ThinkPad Tablet by Lenovo is a Honeycomb slate that has typical ThinkPad engineering and quality of construction. It is as comfortable in the boardroom as it is the living room. Read more | Microsoft adds $150 million to their latest datacenter Micrososft continues to invest in new datcenters and their global cloud infrastructure. Read more | Facebook Timeline: Personalization without the all the mess Facebook Timeline was announced yesterday at the f8 conference. The opportunity to better curate your own Facebook content for your friends and family is here but within a slicker, more controlled... Read more | Facebook aiming to take over our lives with media app integration Facebook is taking over our lives, one status message from one app at a time. Read more | |  |  | About this newsletter | The Tech Sanity Check newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the people, products, and companies that are revolutionizing the planet. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief
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