News from ZDNet | | Can IT still change the world? What surprised me most about the Thiel Foundation's 20 Under 20 list is that the information technology projects looked promising, but didn't inspire much in the way of world-changing items. Read more | AT&T's LTE upgrades coming this summer, starting with Texas Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Chicago, and Atlanta will be the first to get the network upgrades in AT&T's Texas-centered LTE launch. Read more | CEO Ballmer (mis)speaks, Microsoft HQ clarifies There's something crazy about a CEO of a multibillion dollar corporation telling people one thing, and then the company having to clear up the misstatement later. Read more | Microsoft Skype breaks open-source partnership What a surprise! The pre-Microsoft purchase Skype will no longer let Digium include Skype functionality in its open-source Asterisk telephone services server. Read more | Mac malware authors release a new, more dangerous version Apple finally responded to the Mac Defender outbreak, with a technical note containing removal instructions and the promise of a removal tool. Within hours, the bad guys had released a new version... Read more | Apple to issue update to 'automatically find and remove' Mac Defender malware Apple has released an advisory that describes how to both avoid and remove Mac Defender malware from affected systems. Read more | Email is far from dead; 'no viable replacement' in sight Email is not dead, and will not die out any time soon. Most visitors of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! go straight to email, and even social networking cannot fully compete. Read more | Without Virtualization, Apple's OS Will Die The death of Apple's OS X wouldn't particularly hurt the company but there's a way to save it and it's pretty simple: Virtualization. Read more | Microsoft preps users for the move to Office 365 cloud platform Microsoft execs are doing a number of things to ready themselves internally and externally for the soon-to-be-launched Office 365, Microsoft's suite of hosted SharePoint, Exchange and Lync... Read more | Can an open-source backer thrive inside Microsoft? This one says no People join and leave Microsoft every day. One open-source backer who is leaving Microsoft after a three-year stint there provides his take on why Microsoft wasn't a good fit for him. Read more | Twitter officially acquires TweetDeck client Twitter has officially picked up the TweetDeck personal browser client for its micro-blogging site, marking further consolidation of the third-party Twitter apps. Read more | Zuckerberg: Facebook not working on under-13 access, not going public (yet) Kids under 13 will have to wait for Facebook access, said the social networking site's CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday. Read more | Amazon trots out ad-supported Kindle 3G with $25 discount Not to let Barnes & Noble completely steal the e-reader show this week, Amazon has added another ad-supported Kindle to the mix. Read more | | | | About this newsletter | The Tech Sanity Check newsletter is my daily update on the technology world. You'll get my picks for the top stories of the day on the people, products, and companies that are revolutionizing the planet with technology. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief
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