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TechWeb Weekly Update - Thursday, Jun 5, 2008

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf.: Harnessing The Web Transformation
Attendees will get an up-close look at how SaaS and cloud computing, Search 2.0, and social networking in the enterprise are reinventing the way companies do business.

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2008 InformationWeek IT Salary Survey
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  Today's Most Popular Stories

McAfee Names The Most Dangerous Domains
The top five domains ranked in terms of the prevalence of dangerous downloads are .info; .ro; .ws; .biz; and .cn.

Yahoo Widget Unlocks Private Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan MySpace Photos
The photos surfaced after a security researcher discovered that a MySpace widget in Yahoo's Widget Galley could be used to bypass MySpace privacy controls.

AMD's 'Puma' Notebook Platform To Pounce On Intel
Looking to supplant Centrino, the CPU-graphics combination includes the Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile processor and the AMD 7-series chipset.

Bill Gates Gives Last Big Speech Before Leaving Full-Time Microsoft Role
"It's the first time I've really changed my career since I was 17 years old," Gates told a crowd of software developers at Microsoft's TechEd conference.

Apple iPhone Heading To Tough Japanese Market
This latest deal is important for Apple in reaching its goal of selling 10 million iPhones, or about a 1% share of the global cellular phone market this year.

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Yankee Publishing Inc. seeking IT Administrator in Dublin, NH

T-Mobile seeking Program Manager 3 in Snoqualmie, WA

Health Care District of Palm Beach seeking Systems Analyst III in West Palm Beach, FL

ISES, Inc. seeking Systems Engineer Technical Support in Bridgewater, NJ

ConnectWise seeking Program Manager, Value Added Services, in Tampa, FL

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News of the Week

Google To Build Office Space At NASA Ames Research Center
Google plans to lease 42.2 acres of unimproved land and pay annual rent of around $3.66 million.

PostgreSQL Company Gets CEO From Red Hat
Ed Boyajian, 45, former Red Hat VP and general manager of North American sales, will become president and CEO of EnterpriseDB next week.

GE Healthcare And UPMC Launch Joint Venture To Digitize Pathology Images
Onmyx aims to get pathologists to abandon glass slides and microscopes for the digital technology it says will improve diagnoses.

Best Smartphone Platforms For Business
A smartphone's OS drives its productivity-enhancing powers. Here's a guide to choosing among Windows Mobile, Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia S60, and Google Android.

Icahn Says Yahoo CEO, Board Sabotaged Microsoft Acquisition Bid
The billionaire financier claims the "poison pill" severance package for Yahoo employees was deceitful and killed off talks between the two tech companies.

Verizon Reportedly In Talks To Buy Alltel For $27 Billion
The potential deal would make Verizon Wireless the largest carrier in the United States with potentially 78.9 million subscribers.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer To Step Down Within 10 Years
The head of the world's largest software maker says he will retire in nine or 10 years when his last kid goes away to college.


Breaking news

LED Displays Promise Thinner, Sharper Laptops
A new screen technology promising sharper and more vivid images, longer battery life and slimmer designs promises to become the standard display for laptops, pumping fresh life into the PC industry.

E-Trade Launches Mobile Platform
Joins Schwab and Fidelity in offering trading via Blackberry

Fujitsu Sees WiMax Chip Sales Hitting $950 Million by 2011
The Japanese chip maker predicts there will be more than 50 million WiMax users by 2012.

Sun To Start Selling Solid-State Storage This Year
Sun says its solid-state drives will be optimized for the MySQL database and other applications.

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