The swines! Flu panic blamed on Twitter and blogs

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In this issue:

1. IT Blogwatch: The swines! Flu panic blamed on Twitter and blogs

2. Preston Gralla: Windows 7's XP Mode: The feature that will kill XP

3. Seth Weintraub: Verizon to take Apple "Media Pad", "iPhone lite" from AT&T?

4. Robert L. Mitchell: IE falls behind Firefox, Chrome in browser survey

5. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: How many billions is open-source software worth?

6. Michael Horowitz: Using partitions with disk image backups

7. Lucas Mearian: Intel drops its prices on solid state disk drives

8. Lisa Hoover: Let's tame information overload, not add to it

9. Mark Everett Hall: The network is the service

10. Shark Tank: Too much information

11. IT News Podcast: Apple sued over bid to stop iTunes discussion online

12. Computerworld Editorial Podcast: Whatever it takes

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IT Blogwatch: The swines! Flu panic blamed on Twitter and blogs

In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches the voices of reason get
drowned out by the tweeting twits. Not to mention guessing the backwards song...
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Preston Gralla: Windows 7's XP Mode: The feature that will kill XP

XP appears to be the operating system that refuses to die -- until now, that is.
Windows 7's most intriguing feature, Windows XP Mode, will finally kill off the
operating system that refuses to die.
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Seth Weintraub: Verizon to take Apple "Media Pad", "iPhone lite" from AT&T?

Apple might just be playing AT&T with all of these recent Verizon links, but
somehow all of this Tablet and iPhone lite talk makes sense.
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Robert L. Mitchell: IE falls behind Firefox, Chrome in browser survey

In a survey of most used Windows apps, Firefox is #1, Chrome #2
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: How many billions is open-source software worth?

Go ahead, take a guess. Here's a hint: It's well over a hundred-billion.
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Michael Horowitz: Using partitions with disk image backups

While disk image backups are a great thing, you really need to make a new
data-only partition to get the full benefit from image backups.
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Lucas Mearian: Intel drops its prices on solid state disk drives

While its price is still higher than most SSDs, Intel at least is making an
effort to be more consumer friendly.
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Lisa Hoover: Let's tame information overload, not add to it

The Internet is buzzing this morning with news Facebook may be planning to open
certain sections of user homepages. If true, it will allow developers to create
third-party applications that offer new ways to take in the news and status
updates our friends churn out. More ways to digest more information? Stop the
ride, I want to get off.
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Mark Everett Hall: The network is the service

When your business is a service that connects businesses together, protocol
flexibility and uptime become essential to the service.
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Shark Tank: Too much information

This pilot fish passes along a message sent by his department's help desk to
every employee at his location.

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IT News Podcast: Apple sued over bid to stop iTunes discussion online

In today's podcast: Apple sued over bid to stop iTunes discussion online; Europe
needs to coordinate cyberdefenses; and Obama aims to increase US spending on
R&D.
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Computerworld Editorial Podcast: Whatever it takes

Given that our critical infrastructure is owned almost entirely by the private
sector, it's nonsensical to think that we can leave it to the federal government
to fight our cyberwar, believes Don Tennant in this week's editorial.
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