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CES 2009: Gadget heaven

Special report: He who dies with the most toys wins. For your home, car, or office - there are enough gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show to keep almost everyone occupied.

• Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft at CES: Zune Mobile, no; Win 7 Beta 1, yes - Gallery
• Andrew Nusca: CES 2009: First impressions
• Gallery: CES gadgets - the first wave (updated)
• Andrew Nusca: CES from day 2

• Digital Cameras
• Laptops & Desktops
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• SOHO Networking
• The ToyBox
• Smartphones & Cell Phones
• Home Theater

CES: Where's the Mac pavilion?

David Morgenstern: Some consumer market exhibitors said they might skip next year's Macworld Expo in San Francisco if an Apple-centric presence is offered at CES in Las Vegas.

• Special Report: Macworld Expo
• Larry Dignan: Apple rolls the dice on fixed MacBook Pro batteries
• Sam Diaz: Schiller delivers but announcements disappoint

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• The BlackBerry Beat
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Googling Google

Microsoft planning quiet Patch Tuesday

Ryan Naraine: Microsoft plans to ship a solitary security bulletin next Tuesday with fixes for a serious security problem in its flagship Windows operating system.

• Microsoft server worm can spread via USB

• Zero Day
• Threat Chaos
• Between the Lines

Six Vista annoyances fixed in Windows 7

Ed Bott: To listen to the critics, Vista's designers succeeded in making every feature worse than XP. In fact, the latest complaint is that Vista and the upcoming Windows 7 are even worse than Windows 98. Or maybe not.

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Six new annoyances introduced in Windows 7 - Gallery
• Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft at CES: Zune Mobile, no; Win 7 Beta 1, yes - Gallery
• Microsoft: Windows 7 means business
• Paul Murphy: Reviewing Windows 7

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• Community, Inc.
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Linux and Open Source
• Managing L'unix
• The Universal Desktop

Salesforce outage - Klaatu Barada Nikto

Paul Greenberg: Salesforce.com was out of action on Tuesday due to a memory allocation failure in the main servers and whacked the failover to backup servers too. It was manually fixed.

• Between the Lines
• BriefingsDirect
• Enterprise Anti-matter
• Enterprise Web 2.0
• Irregular Enterprise
• IT Project Failures
• Service Oriented
• Software as Services

Nvidia's most powerful single and dual GPU graphics cards

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Still looking for a way to squeeze more frames per second out of Crysis Warhead, Call of Duty 5 or Far Cry 2? Nvidia has the answer in the form of the world's fastest single and dual GPU graphics cards - all you need is the cash!

• Gallery: Nvidia's new graphics cards.

• Storage Bits
• Hardware 2.0
• The Core Truth
• Laptops & Desktops

Get smart about skills today for tomorrow's jobs

Kevin Faughnan IBM: We need to develop 21st century skills for the workforce to help students get prepared for the jobs of tomorrow.

• On Sustainability
• IT Project Failures
• GreenTech Pastures
• IT Services & Outsourcing
• Managing L'unix

HP: Bring us your tired, your unwanted tech

Heather Clancy: Hewlett-Packard has expanded the scope of its technology recycling program, the HP Consumer Buyback and Planet Partners Recycling Program. The initiative will dole out cash if the gear isn't too old.

• Emerging Technologies
• Between The Lines
• All About Microsoft
• The Core Truth
• IT Facts
• Tom Foremski: IMHO

Verizon makes a big mistake, picks Microsoft

Garett Rogers: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft were competing for a mobile search deal that would give the winner some good exposure through the Verizon network. Unfortunately for Verizon, they didn't choose Google.

• Googling Google
• Dev Connection
• The Semantic Web
• The Social Web
• The Universal Desktop
• Web 2.0 Explorer

OQO announces model 2+ with OLED and Intel Atom processor

Matthew Miller: The OQO model 2+ does have an OLED display (seems to be a popular theme at CES this year) and more for a full PC in your pocket.

• The BlackBerry Beat
• IP Telephony
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• The Social Web
• SOHO Networking
• Team Think