Google's Chrome OS hits BitTorrent
Chrome OS, the operating system that Google released to open source yesterday, has been compiled and posted for download on several file-sharing sites, Internet searches showed. Read more...

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Google, Bing take bigger bites of search market; Yahoo slips

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What Star Wars Teaches Us About Career Management
Hungry beasts. Murderous bosses. Evil distractions. Master Yoda himself might have a tough time being an IT leader circa 2009, so take these Jedi lessons on career management to heart.

Nonprofit Overhaul Assists Families of Ill Children
In recent years, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis has experienced its share of technological growing pains. The business staff of ten serves the families of children receiving medical treatment for cancer and other serious illnesses by providing a home away from home while the children receive treatment at the local St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

How to Manage Users in Windows 7
A computer running Windows 7 might be used by a single person, by a group of people in an office, or by a family in a home. Fortunately, Windows 7 was designed from the ground up to be a multiuser operating system. The new OS is flexible and can support many different scenarios, with each user having appropriate permissions and a customized environment. Every person using Windows 7 must log in with an account, and each account has a personalized desktop, Start menu, documents folder, history, favorites, and other customizations.

Get to Know Windows 7's Home-Networking Features
Networking isn't just for business anymore--these days, home networks are the norm. In response, Microsoft is offering the Windows 7 Family Pack, which includes three licenses for Windows 7 Home Premium at a discounted price.

Merchant silicon means low TCO
Now more than ever enterprises need to reap the largest possible returns on their network infrastructure investments, and while competitive pricing is an important up-front consideration, total cost of ownership is even more critical.

When Talking About TV at Work Becomes an Issue
The more television Americans watch, the more they talk about those programs at work the next day. The problem is that much of what they view on TV isn't appropriate to discuss in the workplace, says employment law expert Shanti Atkins in this Q&A.

Intel, EU spar over probe, Dell makes a big buy
Dell hopes to beef up its IT services after it revealed plans to buy Perot Systems this week. Dell hopes the purchase will give Perot Systems an international presence and provide the PC manufacturer with more customers for its hardware. The European Union's antitrust probe against Intel became interesting this week when the E.U. released e-mails detailing the deals the chip maker made to control the market. Finally, Google's Android celebrated its first birthday this week. Instead of cake, we have an analysis on how it is faring in the competitive and crowded mobile-phone space.

Budget-beating out-of-band management
Opengear's all-in-one appliance combines service processor aggregation, serial console, and environmental monitoring at a nice price

How to Protect Your Brand
Now more than ever, your business is threatened by cybersquatters. Here's what you can do to fight the problem.

Domain Wars
Trademark owners say cybersquatting -- domain-name brand abuse on the Web -- has gone too far, and they're fighting back.

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