Apple's record quarter; Good Microsoft, Bad Microsoft [TECH UPDATE]

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  Apple ships 2.29 million Macs; Enterprises eye iPhone
  Larry Dignan: Steve Jobs & Co. delivered a strong fiscal second quarter on record revenue, shipped more Macs than expected and said a third of the Fortune 500 is signing up for the iPhone enterprise beta program.
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  Apple earnings live blog
  Jason O'Grady: Interview: Alex Wiley, creator of the gold MacBook
  Apple takes iPhone corporate in a big way
  IBM iDataPlex keeps cool without AC
  Larry Dignan: IBM on Wednesday outlined its entry to be the hardware vendor of choice among Web 2.0 companies with a server dubbed iDataPlex.
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  Good Microsoft, Bad Microsoft
  Ed Bott: How could the same company could do something totally amazing (introducing Live Mesh) on the same day as it does something completely boneheaded (pulling the rug out from under its MSN Music customers). There's only one explanation.
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  Larry Dignan: Microsoft earnings cheat sheet
  Mary Jo Foley: Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh
  MSN Music to ex-customers: So you thought you bought that song for life, eh?
  In Focus: Microsoft-Yahoo
  Windows updates galore: The latest on SPs, FPs and UEs
  Mactel eats Lintel's desktop
  Paul Murphy: Red Hat said it couldn't compete so bailed from the Linux desktop and people aren't jumping up and down over the other choices. So what happened to all the discontented Vista users?
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  Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is it Microsoft or Ubuntu that scared Red Hat away from the desktop?
  Larry Dignan: Red Hat delivers its state of desktop Linux address
  Salesforce.com's bold development platform vision [includes executive podcast]
  Michael Krigsman: Salesforce.com's Tour de Force roadshow is traveling around the world to present the company's platform as a service (PaaS) strategy--calling it a sea of change for software.
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  Microsoft finally takes the beta tag off its Salesforce competitor
  The truth about desktops and laptops
  Dana Blankenhorn: The failure of One Laptop Per Child (and it is a failure) to mass market its $100 Linux laptops made me realize something important about that market. There is something cheaper than free. It's called subsidized, bundled, marketed and supported.
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  Dear Steve Jobs: Reward your loyal customers
  Tom Foremski: It's high time that Apple recognized its biggest fans. The company should have a first adopter network program and give discounts to loyal customers.
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  Clearly inspired by Apple, Fujitsu added the FMV F/A50, an all-in-one PC with a 16-inch widescreen LCD, to the top of its PC lineup. Notebooks come in an assortment of colors.
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  EIC podcast: Gaga for Google; Tech earnings; Psystar; Microsoft's Albany
  In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan Farber and Larry Dignan talk Google, its quarter and how it threw Comscore under the bus, and how it's stellar financials may have Microsoft yearning for Yahoo even more.
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  Centrelink CIO: John Wadeson, making IT work for welfare
  John Wadeson, CIO of Centrelink recently spoke about the challenges running Australia's welfare payment business and how the company manages the millions of transactions and billions of dollars flowing through the organization every week.
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  Forklift of the future
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