Industry

Amazon to buy Zappos.com for $847 million

The shoe and clothing retailer had more than $1 billion in sales in 2008

VMware license revenue slips 20 percent

Overall revenue was flat, the first time sales haven't increased at VMware since it became a public company two years ago

Qualcomm hikes forecast, citing 3G growth

Fiscal 2009 revenue and profit will remain under 2008 levels but be better than expected, it says

Clearwire WiMAX driver for Mac due next month

The company later will allow open-source developers to write code for using WiMax modems on Linux systems

Microsoft likely to RTM Windows 7 Wednesday

Available Aug. 6 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, OEMS get gold code in two days

Data Leak Prevention On The Cheap

Start with employee training and basic data safety

Mind Games: How Social Engineers Win Your Confidence

How Social Networks Bloom in the Enterprise

Study: Facebook use cuts productivity at work

Survey finds 77% of Facebookers use the social networking site while on the job

Microsoft finalizes Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 code