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Google Health launches; Read the terms

Larry Dignan: Google Health has launched for the masses, but watch those terms of usage closely.

Security

The Storm Worm would love to infect you

Dancho Danchev: The Storm Worm malware is back in the game, with its most recent campaign currently active and trying to entice users into executing iloveyou.exe by spamming them with links to already infected hosts.

Product Review Blogs

Chumby defies descritption

Jason D. O'Grady: It's really a little WiFi connected Internet appliance that displays various "widgets" that you choose, depending on your needs.

Operating Systems

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 4: Services

Ed Bott: Dozens of Web sites claim to offer tips on how to speed up Vista. But some popular tips are flat wrong, like the oft-repeated advice to disable "unnecessary" services. Don't do it!

Enterprise Hardware

Sun's latest shade of green blades and servers

Heather Clancy: Sun is using 55-watt Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors to help amp down (not a typo) its latest Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems.

Companies

Microsoft: Yahoo, Facebook two-step vs. Google

Larry Dignan: Just to confuse the Yahoo-Microsoft issue, the rumor mill has Facebook as a player to be named later for Microsoft--after it completes a search deal with Yahoo.

General News

Anyone ripped their entire DVD collection?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Over the weekend I was sitting down looking at my DVDs when had one of those "weekend ideas:" Would it be feasible to rip my entire DVD collection to hard disk?

Enterprise Software

SAP: Build to flip?

Dennis Howlett: Executives from SAP added more color on the decision to decelerate the rollout of Business ByDesign, it increasingly looks like the management is moving more firmly into sales mode with a view to enhancing profitability.

Communications

Opera Mobile 9.5

Mobile software Monday: After using Opera Mobile 9.5 for several days on the HTC Advantage, I have to say it is the new standard for Web browsing on a mobile device.

IT Management

Technology and the costs of change

Paul Murphy: If a dollar spent on IT change returns more than a dollar in organizational productivity it's worth doing--and otherwise not.

Investing legends circle Yahoo; Does a breakup make sense?

Between the Lines by Larry Dignan

The Microhoo saga has attracted a who's who list of investors to Yahoo in a big bet that Carl Icahn will force some sort of "shareholder value." The latest investing...

Larry Dignan with Jason Perlow

Microsoft's $300 million makeover

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

Remember that $300 million consumer ad campaign that Microsoft awarded earlier this year? New specifics are emerging on how the ad agency that won the deal -- Crispin Porter +...

Mary Jo Foley

Apple under pressure to fix Safari 'carpet bomb' flaw

Zero Day by Ryan Naraine

The Google-backed StopBadware.org coalition has called on Apple to rethink its stance on whether the Safari "carpet bomb" issue reported by Nitesh Dhanjani constitutes a serious security risk. Dhanjani originally...

Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters

MacBook Err

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

A Kodawarisan reader found this MacBook Air on display at a store in AKIHABARA Japan. The MBA has what appears to be an error keyboard with an extra F10...

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

Intel to revamp processor lineup for Q3 08

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

I'm hearing rumors from a number of sources that suggest that Intel is planning another round of price cuts for existing CPUs and also the introduction of new processors for...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Press Day: Google Heath is now public

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

Today Google hosted their "factory tour" which was basically a chance for them to give the press a good idea of what they have been working on. It was heavy...

Garett Rogers

Privacy, secrecy, innovation and open source

Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn

Can the techniques we have developed to track the provenance of code be applied to the data we have released on ourselves?

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

Let's meet in Berlin

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

I'll be in Berlin for a few days, attending SAP's Sapphire conference. I'd love to meet blog readers, so please say hello if you're there. Either send email (use...

Michael Krigsman

Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move

Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett

In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual...

Dennis Howlett

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received...

Dion Hinchcliffe

SAP Business ByDesign customers quietly confident

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

While it is still early days, SAP Business ByDesign customers are quietly confident the service will deliver value. Earlier today, David Suntinger, corporate development at WIMA, a German engineering business...

Dennis Howlett

Some brief info about Sun's latest shade of green blades and servers

GreenTech Pastures by Heather Clancy

Sun is using 55-watt Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors to help amp down (not a typo) its latest Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems. The new models include the Sun Fire...

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

Last week Microsoft released Virtual PC 2007 Service Pack 1, with support for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 as host and guest, and Windows Server 2008 Standard as...

Ed Bott

If hackers don't get you, maybe Google will

Storage Bits by Robin Harris

Two weeks ago my personal blog (StorageMojo) was hacked. Turns out that Google can be a bigger problem than the hackers. Here's how it works and tips on protecting yourself....

Robin Harris

Is BBD hoist by SAP's on-premise petard?

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

Is Business ByDesign is turning into a masterclass in how SaaS innovation can never thrive inside a conventional software company? I'm here at Sapphire Berlin to find out.

Phil Wainewright

Poll: No Microhoo for you: Good or bad?

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

Over the weekend, Microsoft announced that it was ending its bid to buy Yahoo!. The proposed deal, and its ultimate demise, was the subject of speculation for weeks. Now that...

Ed Burnette

A 13th century social network

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

According to Nature News, a team of French researchers has used medieval documents to create the oldest detailed social network ever constructed. The mathematicians and computer scientists looked through thousands...

Roland Piquepaille

TweetCube, dead simple filesharing on Twitter

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

I've written before about the importance of Twitter's ecosystem, and TweetCube provides a perfect example.

Steve O'Hear

Triple booting into Vista, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu on a Fujitsu U810 UMPC

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

A few weeks ago Jason D. O'Grady posted about the news that a person was able to get Mac OS X running on an OQO. Prior to that Kevin Tofel...

Matthew Miller

Samsung: OLED laptop in '09?

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

At an industry display conference this week, Samsung will unveil a prototype laptop with a 12.1-inch active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) display. If you have ever seen Sony's XEL-1 11-inch OLED TV,...

John Morris

Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

Miguel de Icaza has announced that that the first public sourcecode release of Moonlight (CNET article)is now available. This version of Moonlight is based on Silverlight 1.0 and not the...

Ryan Stewart

RIP OLPC

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

The OLPC never made sense in terms of its stated goals, but did offer people an opportunity to work with a lifestreams derived interface - and that was valuable because...

Paul Murphy

Topography, roadmaps and directions

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

Very few of us are fortunate enough to start with a clean slate when planning 2.0 business collaboration projects; depending on the size and age of your enterprise you are...

Oliver Marks

Wyse, HP hope XenDesktop will drive thin client sales

Virtually Speaking by Paula Rooney

Wyse and HP have launched new lines of thin clients that are optimized for Citrix’s XenDesktop and the virtualized desktop. Citrix’s much anticipated XenDesktop, which will compete against VMware’s VDI...

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Is SOA delivering value? We need to understand this better

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

Most organizations simply don't know what business fruit their SOAs are bearing

Joe McKendrick

MokaFive announces general availability of LivePC desktop-as-a-service offering

BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner

The Redwood City, Calif. company says its DaaS solution is already deployed in nearly 50 pilot programs and has been downloaded over 80,000 times. The virtual desktops, known as...

Dana Gardner

The worst shopping experience on the web?

The ToyBox by Josh Taylor

When I was hunting down an extra battery for my Canon Vixia HF10 last month, a sponsored link caught my eye. Some place called "The Camera Professionals" was advertising the...

Josh Taylor

Olympus announces new E-520 midrange DSLR update

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

Olympus has finally announced the previously leaked E-520, an update to its well-regarded E-510. Like the entry-level E-420, the E-510 is really a minor update to its predecessor.

Janice Chen

Netflix launches device for watching movies on TV

SOHO Networking by Rik Fairlie

Netflix enters the Net-to-TV video race with the introduction of a $99.99 player that enables its members to stream up to 10,000 movies and TV shows. The company has...

Rik Fairlie

AMD announces new PC gaming push

The Core Truth by John Morris

AMD announced today a new program designed to boost sales of mainstream PCs for gaming. The AMD Game logos will appear on AMD-based desktops and notebooks that meet the system...

John Morris

Data Portability: Social Infrastructure still very much wanting

Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe

In a penetrating analysis of the Facebook developers forum, 20bits shows that the participation of programmers in the discussion about the Facebook platform is rapidly dwindling, which suggests the platform...

Mitch Ratcliffe

The newspaper's last stand

John Carroll by John Carroll

Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy...

John Carroll

Is Enterprise Software Recession-Proof?

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

Amidst the PR blitz and the blizzard of 1:1 meetings that constitute the foreground experience of SAP's Sapphire user conference this week (see Larry's coverage here, and Dennis' coverage here),...

Joshua Greenbaum

Google Health most significant GOOG business launch since AdWords

IMHO by Tom Foremski

I was at the Googleplex Monday morning for a briefing on GOOG's improvements in search, and more importantly, the official roll out of Google Health. Google had invited representatives some...

Tom Foremski

HP CSR Report: A Triumph for Transparency (but back slides on blogging)

On Sustainability by James Farrar

Ground breaking stuff in HPs latest CSR report released last week - HP becomes the first in its sector to publish details of the major players in its supply chain....

James Farrar

A short, pointed list of 'wonderful policies'

Lawgarithms by Denise Howell

In putting together a list of what I consider to be relatively clueful site policies, terms, and guidelines, I just stumbled on BoingBoing's List of Wonderful Policies. And it is....

Denise Howell

189 bln mobile messages sent in 2007

IT Facts by AM

189 bln mobile messages have been sent by US mobile-phone subscribers in 2007. Gartner forecasts 301 bln mobile messages sent in 2008. Those figures would still account for only a...

Alex Moskalyuk

Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform

Team Think by Dave Greenfield

Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottawa at a day long event. Dubbed Project Chainsaw, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel...

David Greenfield

Calais 2.0 unveiled by Thomson Reuters

The Semantic Web by Paul Miller

In a press release to coincide with this week's Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, Thomson Reuters subsidiary ClearForest has announced a major upgrade to their OpenCalais web service; Calais...

Paul Miller

Should Sugar be put out to pasture?

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

A reader of the blog I posted yesterday ("Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?") raised some interesting objections to the Sugar user interface originally developed for...

Christopher Dawson

Google holds firm against Lieberman's call to take down Islamist videos

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

Sen. Joe Lieberman wants Google to take down terrorist videos from YouTube. In a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lieberman wrote: Many of the videos produced by one of...

Richard Koman

Moore's Law and health care

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

In industrial terms, we're talking about mass customization. Each of us is unique, comprised of gigabytes of data which can be stored, manipulated, and turned into a far more accurate...

Dana Blankenhorn

  • All About Microsoft

    Mary Jo Foley

    Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.

  • Between the Lines

    Larry Dignan with Jason Perlow

    Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.

  • BriefingsDirect

    Dana Gardner

    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.

  • Collaboration 2.0

    Oliver Marks

  • Dev Connection

    Ed Burnette

    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.

  • Digital Cameras

    Janice Chen

    Gadget geek Janice Chen delivers real-world buying advice of the best gear to get.

  • Ed Bott's Microsoft Report

    Ed Bott

    Get outspoken insights and expert advice on Windows, Office, and other Microsoft products from a source who knows these technologies inside and out.

  • Emerging Tech

    Roland Piquepaille

    Emerging trends in technology and new developments in science will affect the way we live. Roland Piquepaille selects and analyzes news about our future that you'll almost never find anywhere else.

  • Enterprise Alley

    Dennis Howlett

    Showcasing the new breed of startup-style vendors who are solving old problems in a fresh way or offering a glimpse into the future of enterprise applications.

  • Enterprise Anti-matter

    Joshua Greenbaum

    Software analyst Josh Greenbaum's opinions on enterprise software have annoyed enough vendors that he now checks under the hood of his PC every morning before he boots up.

  • Enterprise Web 2.0

    Dion Hinchcliffe

    Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.

  • Googling Google

    Garett Rogers

    Garett Rogers explores the mystery behind the hottest and fastest growing tech company in the world.Google spoilers inside.

  • GreenTech Pastures

    Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

    As the global warming debate rages, Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy chronicle alternative energy start-ups, green data center projects and other high-tech and political developments shaping the green technology movement.

  • Hardware 2.0

    Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

    Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sieves 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.

  • Irregular Enterprise

    Dennis Howlett

    Dennis Howlett analyzing the issues faced by senior business practitioners who work with enterprise software.

  • IT Facts

    Alex Moskalyuk

    Your daily research synopsis is the top resource for business and technology statistics that inform, enlighten and entertain.

  • IT Project Failures

    Michael Krigsman

    Michael Krigsman is passionate about reporting, analyzing, and reducing IT failures.

  • John Carroll

    John Carroll

    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.

  • Laptops & Desktops

    John Morris

    John Morris delivers straight talk about notebook and desktop computers.

  • Lawgarithms

    Denise Howell

    Issue-spotting the Live Web, attorney Denise Howell muses about cutting edge technology-related legal issues.

  • Linux and Open Source

    Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

    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.

  • Managing L'unix

    Paul Murphy

    A free-ranging daily blog on issues related to Unix - including Linux, BSD, and Solaris - with a particular focus on enterprise-level decision-making.

  • On Sustainability

    James Farrar

    James Farrar focuses on the business balance between financial performance and social-environmental impact.

  • Rational Rants

    Mitch Ratcliffe

    "Mitch Ratcliffe blogs about the constantly changing boundary between media and life, the businesses that live on that border, and the meaning of all this change to society and the economy.

  • Service Oriented

    Joe McKendrick

    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.

  • Software as Services

    Phil Wainewright

    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.

  • SOHO Networking

    Rik Fairlie

    Get the latest news and expert views on new wireless networking products and services, plus tips on how to optimize your SOHO network.

  • Storage Bits

    Robin Harris

    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.

  • Team Think

    David Greenfield

    David Greenfield delivers practical information about tools and technologies that enable organizational teams to work more effectively with one another.

  • The Apple Core

    Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

    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.

  • The Core Truth

    John Morris

    John Morris delivers straight talk about semiconductors.

  • The Mobile Gadgeteer

    Matthew Miller

    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.

  • The Semantic Web

    Paul Miller

    Paul Miller offers insight and analysis on the Semantic Web, dissecting the news and showing why it matters to the wider business world.

  • The Social Web

    Steve O'Hear

    From Facebook to MySpace, YouTube to Second Life, social software is reshaping the world we live in. Steve O\'Hear provides daily news and analysis of the emerging social web.

  • The ToyBox

    Josh Taylor

    The latest gadgets and gear -- because even busy business professionals need their playtime.

  • The Universal Desktop

    Ryan Stewart

    The technology and business implications of the next generation of software, rich Internet applications.

  • Tom Foremski: IMHO

    Tom Foremski

    Former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski writes about Silicon Valley business trends and the intersection of technology and media.

  • Virtually Speaking

    Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

    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.

  • ZDNet Education

    Christopher Dawson

    News and analysis on IT and computing in the education sector.

  • ZDNet Government

    Richard Koman

    Richard Koman delivers news and analysis on IT and enterprise computing in city, state & federal government.

  • ZDNet Healthcare

    Dana Blankenhorn

    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.

  • Zero Day

    Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters

    Staying on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks.

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