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San Francisco - Bottom Line The HTC Droid Eris packs lots of good stuff into a small, sleek package, but it can't run Android 2.0. Full Story »

San Francisco - Bottom Line Cisco UCS 1.0 is like no other blade-based server infrastructure available today. Full Story »

San Francisco - Encapsulating Cisco's Unified Computing System into a few paragraphs is a daunting challenge. Cisco UCS is quite unlike any other computing platform on the market today, and while there are certainly parallels to existing models, UCS carves a new path through the woods of IT. In order to relay the major differences, it's best to start in familiar territory and compare UCS with a traditional blade infrastructure. Full Story »

San Francisco - With a product introduction on Tuesday, Novell will enable developers to use Microsoft's Visual Studio software development platform to both build and debug .Net-based applications for deployment on Linux and other non-Windows platforms. Full Story »

San Francisco - Microsoft on Monday unveiled Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform, enabling use of Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in conjunction with the Facebook social platform. Full Story »

San Francisco - Microsoft plans to acquire technology that has enabled Microsoft's TFS (Team Foundation Server) software to be an ALM (application lifecycle management) server for different software development platforms. Full Story »

San Francisco - This month's purported "iPhone killer" is the Android-based Motorola Droid, which Verizon began selling in the United States on Nov. 6. Full Story »

San Francisco - I'm one of the people who answers your call or e-mail when you have a computer or software problem. Full Story »

San Francisco - JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, told InfoWorld. "The browser vendors are making super-fast implementations of it, so JavaScript's gotten very, very fast, and this is helping developers use it more," Eich said when asked what he sees in the future for JavaScript. "It's being used for 3D graphics programming now." Full Story »

San Francisco - It was hard to follow tech news this week without getting icky lawyer-stuff all over you. Full Story »