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Opinion: Apple's Snow Leopard -- an OS without any new features?
Apple's next operating system, Snow Leopard, is due out in about a year, and it won't bring with it any major new features. Columnist Dan Turner explains why that may just be a good thing.

Review: Denodo brings old-school polish to new mashups
It's a Java-based collection of tools that lets users click a few buttons on some Web forms to reach out over the Net, suck in information in a wide range of formats, and then reformat it into an equally wide range of ways to store the data.

Opinion: What will rule the 'new' Internet?
With many young people generating their own content on evolving video and social networking sites and sharing it with tools like BitTorrent, the Web of the future may resemble its very beginning, when most resources and content distribution were created by individuals and not large conglomerates.

15 great turning points in tech history
Difficult decisions, paths not taken -- here are 15 pivotal moments that have shaped today's high-tech landscape.

Q&A;: Networking veteran launches unique auction site
The frustrating search for a high-def TV prompted Mukesh Chatter, who has founded two other companies, to develop a start-up auction site in which sellers bid for the business of buyers.

The A-Z of programming languages: BASH/Bourne-Again Shell
Version 4 of Bash should be out sometime this summer, says Chet Ramey, the language's maintainer.

Opinion: WWDC takes an iPhone-centric tack
When Apple's big developers conference opens on Monday, CEO Steve Jobs is expected to unveil a new iPhone. But there's more on tap than just that, says Computerworld columnist Dan Turner.

FAQ: Speculation swells as Apple's WWDC '08 nears
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference begins on Monday. But the speculation about just what's going to be announced has been going on for months. We round up the latest.

The many uses of enterprise wikis
CIO sat down with Scott Johnston, senior product manager of Google Sites (and former vice president of products at Jotspot) to talk about Google Sites and what types of use cases for the product have emerged since it launched.

Web apps manage social networking overload
Too many Flickr photos, Twitter tweets, Facebook pokes and MySpace messages? Here's help to keep track of it all.

Intel's x86 microprocessor architecture has dominated large swaths of computing for three decades. Here's why. The notebook we use in five years might look a lot like the XO 2.0 clamshell, a prototype of the next version of the OLPC laptop. Apple's splash into the cell phone market proved consumers will pay for hip devices. Now the race is on to one-up the iPhone. NASA engineers and programmers are writing code each day to send to Mars to control the Mars Lander, which is gathering and testing soil on the surface of the planet.

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