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Motorola Sues Ex-Executive For Going To Apple
Motorola filed a lawsuit in Illinois a couple days ago against a former executive that left the company to become the head of Apple's iPhone sales division. This comes in a long line of departures for the flailing device maker, as it's lost several valuable employees to rival companies in recent months.
Serdar Yegulalp
Dell's Ubuntu Gets A Hardy Upgrade
Dell's commitment to Ubuntu Linux grows, like Topsy. According to a post on the Direct2Dell blog, Ubuntu 8.04 (the "Hardy Heron" edition) will be coming to the XPS M1330N and Inspiron 1525N notebooks, as well as the Inspiron 530N desktop. Stick the "grandma-approved" label on it, too, as DVDs will play back out of the box (as they did in Dell's 7.10).
Mitch Wagner
iPhone Free Software: Zenbe Lets You Make Checklists
One of the biggest frustrations of the original iPhone was the lack of a simple utility for making checklists. I want to make a list for a project, tick off each item when completed, and re-use the list when I have to do the same project another day. I don't want to prioritize the items on the list, or color-code them, or categorize them, or tag them, or make origami cranes out of them. I just want to make a checklist.
Richard Martin
Is The Air Leaking From Google’s Bubble?
Earnings season is in full swing and it's a good moment to pause and review three tech giants that reported in the last two days.
George Hulme
Utilities Ready To Put IT Security Efforts In Place
The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) announced this week that it's improving its ability to better manage IT security and critical infrastructure protection efforts to North America's bulk power system.
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A new book makes the case for a more tech-centric, individualized approach to teaching. Given the current product and the future stakes, we better start shaking the system up in some way.
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