Microsoft Azure pricing; 99-cent netbook; Is hydrogen fuel the answer? [TECH UPDATE]

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Top Editors Picks Azure pricing: How low will Microsoft go? Mary Jo Foley: Next week, Microsoft plans to share pricing and licensing details for its Azure cloud computing environment. As a latecomer to the cloud, Microsoft needs to offer steep discounts if it wants to compete with the likes of Amazon and Google. READ FULL STORY Webcast: Demystifying Azure and Microsoft's cloud strategy Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed Windows Azure defined: A developer's view Windows Azure: Microsoft mainstreams the cloud Sponsored Live Webcast: Maximize Uptime, Performance and Savings with UNIX Listen to experts as they discuss how you can best utilize UNIX to improve service, reduce costs and manage risk on your network. Apple iPod touch: Market-busting disruption Andrew Nusca: MP3 players have nearly given up. ' Small netbooks are scared. Feature phones are frustrated. E-readers are concerned. And now, compact digital cameras and mini camcorders (like the Flip) are quakin' in their boots. Will an iPod touch refresh yield Apple its most disruptive product yet? READ FULL STORY iPod touch video rumors: Disruptive, very disruptive How Apple singlehandedly killed the Flip Mino Apple files patents on haptic feedback, biometrics and RFID detection Are iPod touch users second-class citizens? Apple says yes Can Yahoo steal the search throne from Google with Search Pad? Sam Diaz: Yahoo is launching a new search feature today that could give the embattled company an opportunity to do what it -- and others --have been unable to do in recent years: truly challenge Google in the search business. See what makes this cloud-based smart tool such a game changer. READ FULL STORY Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google Google still the king, even with Yahoo Search Pad Bing! Microsoft gets something right. Well, maybe Gallery: Top 10 alternatives to Google Search The $0.99 Netbook has arrived, on Sprint Andrew Nusca: It's a race to the bottom. Best Buy and Sprint have teamed up to offer a Compaq-branded HP Mini 110c netbook for only 99 cents when you sign a two-year data contract. Normally, the system would run you $389 at Best Buy, no contract. READ FULL STORY Cheaper ultraportables meet more powerful netbooks Analyst: Cheap ultrathin laptops push design limits; cracked plastic Netbook or notebook? Confusion reigns at 12 inches New HP mini 5101 netbook adds aluminum chassis; chiclet keyboard for business SmartPlanet: Is hydrogen fuel the answer? GM thinks so John Dodge: GM is still pushing ahead hard with hydrogen. A spokesman says though the company is under pressure to slash costs, it "continues to believe hydrogen is a key to solving the nation's mid-to-long term issues of energy security, reduced petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions." READ FULL STORY John Dodge: GM clings to hydrogen, 2015 set for launch Harry Fuller: Hydrogen fuel cell cars hit the road. GM hits panic button Dana Blankenhorn: A hydrogen car is not a hydrogen economy Harry Fuller: How dead are American hydrogen cars? Sponsored Live Webcast: Maximize Uptime, Performance and Savings with UNIX Listen to experts as they discuss how you can best utilize UNIX to improve service, reduce costs and manage risk on your network. Featured TalkBack Blog What should SAP do with its $5bn war chest? Dennis Howlett: Speculation abound whether SAP will hit the numbers it has internally set itself for Q2. The old 'will they get acquired and if so by whom?' discussion has also reared its head. What should SAP do? READ FULL BLOG What do you think? Post Your Thoughts in TalkBack Reader TalkBacks Toybox Ten: 10 laptops for less than $750 "I've mulled over buying a laptop for almost a year and keep asking myself the same questions." -- mhatter13 Microsoft gets something right! Well, maybe. "As long as they don't try to control the market using the power of their monopoly." -- wackoae Elsewhere on ZDNet Photo Gallery Synology DS409Slim NAS Synology's newest NAS server, the DS409Slim, incorporates advanced features and supports four 2.5-inch hard drives to retain a compact design. VIEW THE GALLERY Samsung Omnia family photos Sample photos: Canon PowerShot A1100 IS More ZDNet Photo Galleries ZDNet Reviews Pico projector phones by the end of this year? Jennifer Bergen: In the push to add more capability to smartphones, Pico projectors are the latest rumored feature to be shoehorned into the mobile handset. Would you watch a movie with a Pico-powered smartphone? 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