One of the most pressing questions on investors' and shareholders' minds about Microsoft is how the company plans to respond to Apple's iPad. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reiterated at FAM that the company and its PC partners are going to have new Windows 7 slates coming to market "soon," but didn't much else about the company's plans.
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Court rejects class action status for Intel antitrust suit
Intel today won a key ruling in an antitrust case when a Delaware court rejected the request to grant the case class action status, according to reports. Intel is accused of wrongfully offering...
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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 potential marketing pitch: 'I'm a phone too'
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave analysts a glimpse at the software giant's marketing around Windows Phone 7. The plan: Let Windows Phone 7 ride shotgun with Windows 7. The punchline: "I'm a phone...
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Real cuts losses amid restructuring, still misses analyst estimates
Real Networks' second-quarter loss was narrowed but the company, which is in the midst of a restructuring, still missed Wall Street's estimates.
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McAfee acquires tenCube; Second quarter mixed bag
A day after Symantec's earnings bombed, smaller rival McAfee reported a mixed second quarter and acquired a mobile security firm, tenCube.
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Microsoft's Ballmer: Windows 7 slates are 'job number one'
One of the most pressing questions on investors' and shareholders' minds about Microsoft is how the company plans to respond to Apple's iPad. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reiterated at FAM that the...
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Coinstar sees growth in DVD business; adds Blu-Ray to Redbox offerings
Coinstar says the DVD business is continuing to grow and, as such, it has raised its financial forecast for the rest of the year and announced the addition of Blu-Ray disks to its Redbox DVD...
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DOJ sues Oracle over GSA contract
The Department of Justice has sued Oracle for defrauding the government out of "hundreds of millions of dollars in sales."
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YouTube increases video upload limit to 15 minutes
YouTube is upping its game - and video time limits - for non-partner customwers.
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HP announces a containerized datacenter sale
With the announcement of Purdue University's purchase of an HP POD container some of the veil is pulled away from the container market.
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Steve Ballmer: Microsoft has been focusing on cloud for 15 years
Microsoft says it intends to invest almost $10 billion into cloud R&D over the coming year.
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EPA: Yup, greenhouse gases still unhealthy
Why do I have the feeling that we'll be arguing this point for the rest of my life and probably the lives of my niece and nephew, to boot? Thought it worth pointing out that the U.S....
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The coming Silicon Valley VC implosion...
Silicon Valley's VC industry needs a complete overhaul otherwise it will shrink dramatically because of poor returns for investors...
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BlackBerry encryption 'too secure': National security vs. consumer privacy
India's intelligence services cannot intercept BlackBerry encrypted data, citing this as a risk to national security. What's more important: national security, or consumer privacy - and why?
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Microsoft's stump speech: We're leading the cloud parade
Microsoft's operating chief Kevin Turner set out to position the software giant as a cloud computing leader with a broad portfolio that rivals such as Google, Salesforce.com, Amazon and VMware...
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How to find out if your data is in the Facebook torrent file
Someone scraped the publicly-available Facebook directory and hosted it as a torrent file, so anyone with an internet connection could download it. Here's how you can figure out if your...
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Between the Lines
Court rejects class action status for Intel antitrust suit
Intel today won a key ruling in an antitrust case when a Delaware court rejected the request to grant the case class action status, according to reports. Intel is accused of wrongfully offering...
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All About Microsoft
Microsoft's Ballmer: Windows 7 slates are 'job number one'
One of the most pressing questions on investors' and shareholders' minds about Microsoft is how the company plans to respond to Apple's iPad. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reiterated at FAM that the...
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Zero Day
Hacker breaks into ATMs, dispenses cash remotely
Using home-brewed software tools and exploiting a gaping security hole in the authentication mechanism used to update the firmware on automated teller machines (ATMs), a security researcher hacked...
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The Apple Core
Magic Trackpad + iPad = MacBook killer?
Apple's new Magic Trackpad could make the traditional notebook form factor obsolete. An iPad, wireless keyboard and wireless trackpad may turn out to be a lethal combination for the MacBook.
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Hardware 2.0
Apple magic Trackpad - Stripped!
The guys at iFixit have done it again, this time getting their hands on Apple's new Magic Trackpad, and tearing it apart for out entertainment and edification.
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Linux and Open Source
Why patent consortia are a good thing
When the subject of patents and cross-patent consortia comes up everyone is a troll. They have to be because courts do not recognize the legal requirements of open source.
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Googling Google
Will Motorola finally give us an Android iPad competitor?
Motorola has already given Verizon a couple of worthy iPhone competitors in its Droid and Droid X smartphones. The X especially has set a very high bar for smartphones in general and Android...
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
Secret links for Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta
I've been impressed with the Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta, especially with the new Photo Gallery and Movie Maker. But the one thing that's missing from the official download page is an...
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Smartphones and Cell Phones
GDGT Live in Seattle brought out the Northwest techies
Peter and Ryan held another great GDGT Live event in Seattle last night with a few hundred local techies coming out to enjoy a beautiful Seattle evening.
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Tech Broiler
Amazon Kindle will be the sole survivor of the eReader Apocalypse
Like the reptile that inhabits the namesake river and has outlived its Cretaceous ancestors, Amazon and its Kindle will remain the sole survivor of the eReader Apocalypse.
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The Mobile Gadgeteer
Windows Phone 7 devices by end of September?
LG is going to be first to market with Windows Phone 7 in September
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The ToyBox
NZXT busts out Phantom full tower chassis; $139.99
If you think your computer tower doesn't look cool or intimidating enough, check out NZXT's latest massive full tower chassis: the Phantom.
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Social Business
Research: Google reaches malware milestone, while 'true' Twitter users increase
A Barracuda Networks study shows that Google is presenting more malware than Bing, Yahoo and Twitter combined, and that less than 30 percent of Twitter's users are fully using the service. What's...
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GreenTech Pastures
EPA: Yup, greenhouse gases still unhealthy
Why do I have the feeling that we'll be arguing this point for the rest of my life and probably the lives of my niece and nephew, to boot? Thought it worth pointing out that the U.S....
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Laptops & Desktops
ATI pulls ahead of Nvidia in discrete graphics sales for second quarter
ATI discrete graphics cards outshipped rival Nvidia's in the second quarter of 2010, according to a new report.
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Storage Bits
iPad wins the jerk demographic
You're educated, affluent and self-indulgent: the perfect Apple customer. It's young cheapskate Linux snobs who hate the iPad.
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Digital Cameras & Camcorders
Samsung unveils ST80 pocket digital camera with Wi-Fi
Samsung has just introduced the ultra-compact ST80 digital camera, complete with Wi-Fi and DNLA connectivity.
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Home Theater
UltraViolet: DRM for online content handled through the cloud
As you're probably aware, digital rights management (DRM) hasn't exactly worked as smoothly as content creators and copyright holders would like. Probably the most successful DRM solution to date...
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iGeneration
BlackBerry encryption 'too secure': National security vs. consumer privacy
India's intelligence services cannot intercept BlackBerry encrypted data, citing this as a risk to national security. What's more important: national security, or consumer privacy - and why?
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Software as Services
Choosing the right cloud platform
The emergence of a number of self-proclaimed 'open' cloud platforms - the latest is Rackspace's OpenStack initiative - presents any would-be cloud adopter with a confusing plethora of choice....
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Service Oriented
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft has been focusing on cloud for 15 years
Microsoft says it intends to invest almost $10 billion into cloud R&D over the coming year.
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BriefingsDirect
Analysts define business value and imperatives for cloud-based B2B ecommerce trading communities
BriefingsDirect assembled a group of IT industry analysts and executives at the recent Ariba LIVE 2010 conference to explore the business implications for ecommerce in the cloud-computing era.
- Three new Open Group white papers help make for a peaceful leap to cloud computing
- Business trends in global IT markets provide new traction and value for enterprise architecture
- The state of enterprise architecture: Vast promise or lost opportunity?
- Open Group panel: Enterprise Architects increasingly join in common defense against cyber security threats
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Collaboration 2.0
Summer Social & Search Big Financial Deals
It's been a fascinating few days for big money announcements: first Metaweb, the linked data company that is at the heart of the next generation semantic web was pulled into the Google family...
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Dev Connection
Oracle rebrands Java, breaks Eclipse
Earlier this month, Oracle released a new version of Java, 1.6.0_21 (6u21). Unfortunately as Eclipse users quickly discovered, it was incompatible with Eclipse and Eclipse Rich Client Platform...
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A Developer's View
Shake-up at Microsoft: It's about time
Microsoft recently shook-up its Entertainment & Devices division in an attempt to jump start its device efforts and pose better competition to Apple and Google. Here are five suggestions as...
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Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter
HP announces a containerized datacenter sale
With the announcement of Purdue University's purchase of an HP POD container some of the veil is pulled away from the container market.
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Emerging Tech
Fly corneas prove viable for biomimetic surfaces, i.e. solar cells
Rows of tiny raised blowfly corneas may pave the way to easy manufacturing of bio-mimetic surfaces, surfaces that mimic the properties of biological tissues, according to Penn State researchers.
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Enterprise Web 2.0
Enterprise 2.0 and improved business performance
There's been some useful and interesting discussion in the blogosphere recently about collaborative social tools and their potential to improve business performance. Especially good takes have...
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Tom Foremski: IMHO
The coming Silicon Valley VC implosion...
Silicon Valley's VC industry needs a complete overhaul otherwise it will shrink dramatically because of poor returns for investors...
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Virtually Speaking
Device independence and the future of mobility
Dave Buchholz, Technology Evangelist, Intel IT, and I had a interesting romp through the history of systems and how things have changed over the years. It was wonderful to meet a fellow computer...
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Irregular Enterprise
SAP reports healthier Q2 2010
SAP is slowly returning to double digit growth but its Q2 2010 results represent a mixed picture. High growth in the Americas was offset by sluggishness in other territories. Cost control remains...
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IT Project Failures
Top thinkers in project management today
I am honored to be included in a list of top thinkers in project management today created by on-demand project management tools vendor, LiquidPlanner.
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The Web Life
How to find out if your data is in the Facebook torrent file
Someone scraped the publicly-available Facebook directory and hosted it as a torrent file, so anyone with an internet connection could download it. Here's how you can figure out if your...
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Forrester Research
Adobe seizes the day
Adobe's acquisition of Day Software signals that the company has gotten into the content management business, blogs Stephen Powers.
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Social CRM: The Conversation
The Thing About Analysts - And PR/Marketing Folks
I was reading Ray Wang's great post on "The 7 Tenets of Building a Star Analyst Firm" and then Vinnie Mirchandani's  follow up "More Tenets for the Nex Gen Analyst" and it got me to thinking - on...
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Software & Services Safari
Lots of ERP News in this space (for a change)
Finally, some news around the ERP space. Oracle and SAP dominate this morning's stories.
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Lawgarithms
Muddling through privacy and the social Web
Chief privacy officers from Yahoo!, IBM, and Comcast, as well as CDT's public policy guru, weigh in on where things stand with privacy as social network usage becomes ubiquitous.
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The Semantic Web
Siri acquired by Apple; iPhone becomes the Virtual Personal Assistant?
Apple buys Siri, and brings real semantic smarts to Cupertino.
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On Sustainability
Edelman: Tech Tops in Trust (and why you should trust ZDNet bloggers more than your grandmother)
The pre Davos wind up is now well underway. Out of the traps today is the annual Edelman Trust Barometer timed nicely to remind executives on the way to World Economic Forum that, oh yeah,...
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Team Think
How Software Can Turn Your Creativity into Products
A new trend in innovation management (aka ideation)  platforms  that I'm seeing I think will mark  the beginning of the next generation of our industry. With them you'll be able to  help your...
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Managing L'unix
Measurement vs. Perception
Sometimes an IT performance problem has nothing to do with computers or applications - but the general rule holds: if you can't measure it, you don't understand it and you can't manage it.
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ZDNet Education
Apple Mac updates: Yay! More cool stuff I can't afford!
Too rich for my public education blood, I'm afraid...Too bad, since the new Macs are slick and powerful.
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ZDNet Government
I just want to give the EFF a great, big smootchy-smootch!
We should use this minor victory to remind ourselves that we're still at war with an excessively restrictive, anti-freedom law and it must be overturned.
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ZDNet Healthcare
Mainstream vendors do not have to buy to take over health IT
Major IT players are getting into health IT in many ways, including simple distribution.
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The DocuMentor
A Glossary of Recycled Rhetoric
With all the various claims among paper manufacturers regarding the sustainability of their products, it's hard to know what's really going on. Doc wasn't sure what the definition was for...
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UberMobile
This Homely FeaturePhone Is Almost As Popular As The iPhone. Really.
The Samsung Intensity may be the Shrek of mobile phones, but it still sells really really well in the U.S. And that has implications for your mobile and m-commerce strategy.
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India IT
Dell's Alienware makes a big splash in Bangalore with gaming cafe
Dell's Alienware seeks to boost its presence in a major market in India: gaming.
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All About Microsoft
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
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The Apple Core
Apple technology keeps gaining respect in the executive suite, with businesses and in the data center. Jason O'Grady and David Morgenstern deliver critical news and penetrating analysis that managers need to succeed.
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Between the Lines
Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.
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BriefingsDirect
Analyst Dana Gardner examines IT news and trends that impact software strategists to provide insights and outcomes on SOA, app dev, SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and mobile convergence.
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Collaboration 2.0
Real world collaboration strategies and tactics for enterprises.
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Dev Connection
Who said computers have to be all work and no play? Software developer and author Ed Burnette shares his unique view of industry trends, technologies, and personalities.
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A Developer's View
At the intersection between technology and economic policy, John Carroll brings years of experience as a software developer to bear on the latest issues affecting the technology industry.
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Digital Cameras & Camcorders
Gadget geeks Janice Chen and Rachel King deliver real-world buying advice of the best digital photography gear to get.
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The DocuMentor
Doc is on a mission to help rid your organization of every last trace of document management ignorance and make sure that the future of the digital office finds a home in your business.
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
Get outspoken insights and expert advice on Windows, Office, and other Microsoft products from a source who knows these technologies inside and out.
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Emerging Tech
Emerging trends in technology and new developments in science will affect the way we live. Chris Jablonski selects and analyzes news about our future that you'll almost never find anywhere else.
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Enterprise Web 2.0
Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.
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Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter
David Chernicoff looks at technologies that impact data center users and operators, including server consolidation and virtualization, green IT, and the latest hardware advances.
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Forrester Research
The View From Forrester provides best practices and analysis of burning issues and trends impacting Information & Knowledge Management and Infrastructure & Operations professionals.
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Googling Google
Garett Rogers and Christopher Dawson explore the mystery behind the hottest and fastest growing tech company in the world. Google spoilers inside.
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GreenTech Pastures
As the global warming debate rages, Heather Clancy chronicles alternative energy start-ups, green data center projects and other high-tech and political developments shaping the green technology movement.
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Hardware 2.0
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sifts through the marketing hyperbole and casts his critical eye over the latest technological innovations to find out which products make the grade and which don't.
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Home Theater
Sean Portnoy covers HDTVs, Blu-ray, home theater equipment, and anything else that turns the living room into your media center.
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iGeneration
British student Zack Whittaker talks about (and to) the next generation of IT users.
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India IT
Manan Kakkar surveys the technology market in India.
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Irregular Enterprise
Dennis Howlett analyzing the issues faced by senior business practitioners who work with enterprise software.
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IT Project Failures
Michael Krigsman is passionate about reporting, analyzing, and reducing IT failures.
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Laptops & Desktops
John Morris and Sean Portnoy deliver straight talk about notebook and desktop computers.
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Lawgarithms
Issue-spotting the Live Web, attorney Denise Howell muses about cutting edge technology-related legal issues.
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Linux and Open Source
Covering all aspects of the shared software, shared processes business model, including open spectrum, an open Internet and the implications of open source values on politics and society.
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Managing L'unix
A free-ranging daily blog on issues related to Unix - including Linux, BSD, and Solaris - with a particular focus on enterprise-level decision-making.
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The Mobile Gadgeteer
Professionals are doing more today on the go than ever before. Matthew Miller and Joel Evans provide you with news, commentary and in-depth reviews of the latest in mobile gadgetry running Windows Mobile, S60, Palm, BlackBerry, and more.
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On Sustainability
James Farrar focuses on the business balance between financial performance and social-environmental impact.
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The Semantic Web
Paul Miller offers insight and analysis on the Semantic Web, dissecting the news and showing why it matters to the wider business world.
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Service Oriented
SOA promises many "-ilities": greater agility, flexibility, and reusability. Joe McKendrick explores the challenges and opportunities with SOA, and how to capitalize on this new computing philosophy.
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Smartphones and Cell Phones
Professionals are doing more today on the go than ever before. Matthew Miller provides you with news, commentary and in-depth reviews of the latest in mobile gadgetry running Windows Mobile, S60, Palm, BlackBerry, and more.
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Social Business
Jennifer Leggio delivers news on social media tools and trends and deep dives into business strategies.
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Social CRM: The Conversation
Paul Greenberg focuses on not only what CRM is but where its going in this blog on CRM strategy, technology, stories, companies and personalities.
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Software & Services Safari
Many writers explore just one tech sector. Brian looks at the entire tech ecosystem to better understand the often conflicted relationships between software vendors, integrators, outsourcers and more.
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Software as Services
In the best-informed blog on software-as-a-service and on-demand business applications, Phil Wainewright cuts through the vendor spin, analyzes the trends to watch and adds his thought-provoking insights.
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Storage Bits
Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.
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Team Think
David Greenfield delivers practical information about tools and technologies that enable organizational teams to work more effectively with one another.
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Tech Broiler
Irreverent, unapologetically arrogant and uncensored, IT Professional Services industry veteran Jason Perlow muses on a cornucopia of topics on all matters of Information Technology.
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Tom Foremski: IMHO
Former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski writes about Silicon Valley business trends and the intersection of technology and media.
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The ToyBox
The latest gadgets and gear -- because even busy business professionals need their playtime.
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UberMobile
Eric Lai tracks the latest news and trends in enterprise mobility.
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Virtually Speaking
Virtualization is a mix of technologies that is changing how datacenters use standard systems. Dan Kusnetzky examines this hotly competitive market and weighs the strengths and weaknesses of each supplier.
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The Web Life
Capturing the atmosphere of the Silicon Valley tech experience.
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ZDNet Education
News and analysis on IT and computing in the education sector.
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ZDNet Government
News and analysis on IT and enterprise computing in city, state & federal government.
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ZDNet Healthcare
Covering all areas of medical technology, and the public policies under which they're paid for. From networked systems and electronic medical records to gadgets, breakthroughs, and research.
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Zero Day
Staying on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks.
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