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Some still deny Apple [AAPL] CEO, Steve Jobs and his vision of an age of computing after the PC, but this number doesn't include Dell boss, Michael Dell, who "doesn't want to talk about PCs anymore," according to the Wall Street Journal. That's a shame as there's almost no touchscreens left for Dell to use in its own tablets, Apple got them all. And regulators everywhere finally get the idea that location-based data protection may be needed after all.

Welcome to Newspipe: a wrap-up of interesting stories in a handy, easily-digestible size. This time: rumors say we're close to the release date for Apple's (AAPL) white iPhone 4; falling PC sales in a post-PC world of tablets; and the Justice Department wages war on botnets and zombies (oh my!)

A Dell marketing muckety-muck chucked muck at Apple's iPad 2 down under. Dell big cheese Andy Lark says the iPad ain't so magical when you get it in an enterprise. He also claims it's horrifically expensive. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers dissect Dell's dissembling. Not to mention The existential despair of Charles Schulz's Peanuts...
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Google, Facebook and Microsoft are among the heavy hitters of the tech industry that have teamed up to support a new, cloud-focused initiative called Software-Defined Networking (SDN).

Apple's [AAPL] iPad 2 hits US retail Friday, and already many of the 100 competing tablets shown at CES this year are being terminated, withdrawn, shelved or otherwise dumped. That's because competitors now know what I've been telling them: their expensive and less well-featured alternatives are DOA.

From post-Honeycomb plans to tablets about to land, Android news is flowing fast this week. Here's a fast-paced look at the hottest stories making headlines right now.

Last week PC World reported on "The Tech Brands You Can Trust", the results from a survey of 79,000 readers. A worthwhile read.

The good news is that Dell is now shipping Ubuntu Light, an instant-on version of Ubuntu, on at least one Dell Windows laptop. The bad news is that Dell isn't telling you this and that their Windows systems can be cheaper than their Ubuntu systems.

A failure to proactively address widespread problems with its PCs cost the company $300 million, a lawsuit - and a lot of goodwill. What you can learn from Dell's mistakes.

Grab your gym shorts and get ready: It's time for another glute-busting edition of the Android Power Round, our fast-paced and light-hearted look at the week's most interesting Android news.

In a surprising change, Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu was changing its default interface from GNOME to its netbook-oriented Unity interface

In today's podcast: Dell assembles Virtual Integrated System; Nintendo 3DS launch date; and Amazon Web Services PHP SDK.

Canonical is meeting with numerous computer manufacturers and designers later this month and the result may well be more Ubuntu Linux-equipped PCs, laptops, and tablets.

According to the New York Post and my own sources, there is a deal in the works to split Novell up into two parts -- Linux, and everything else -- and to sell both by the end of October.

HP has triumphed in the bidding war vs. Dell to acquire 3PAR. It now seems certain that HP will buy 3PAR. In recent days, the price has in inched up, as each suitor's offer leapfrogged the other's. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers boggle at the sums involved. Not to mention a silly security statement...
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