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Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XP

Larry Dignan: In a nutshell, Dell's Mini looks like a lot of netbooks such as the Asus eeePC. It'll cost $349 for an Ubuntu Mini and $399 for one with XP.

Operating Systems

Windows 7: Boot time under 15 seconds?

Mary Jo Foley: With Windows 7, Microsoft's goal seems to be to provide as few promises as possible against which the final product can and will be compared and measured. But a boot time of 15 seconds wouldn't hurt.

Web Technology

Google Chrome: The five best new features

Jason Hiner: Google has legitimately tried to innovate and bring some new features to the Web browser. All coverage

General News

A new method to study origin of life

Roland Piquepaille: According to the scientists, their method has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses.

Communications

Will Google Chrome be the Android's mobile browser?

Matthew Miller: I think it is very possible that it will be coming to the mobile space and may actually be the browser that we see launched on the Google Android devices in the next month or two.

IT Management

Does Green IT matter for business?

Video: This episode of Jason Hiner's Sanity Savers for IT executives explains what green IT is, why its important, and how it may affect your organization.

Companies

Handicapping Apple's September 9 event

Jason D. O'Grady: Now that it's official that Apple will be holding a special "Let's Rock" media event on Tuesday, let's take a look under the curtain to see what announcements may be in store from Cupertino.

Security

DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome

Dancho Danchev: While Google's Chrome team is cheering, Rishi Narang from Evil Fingers is typing and releasing a proof of concept for a denial of service vulnerability that is successfully crashing the Chrome browser with all tabs.

Enterprise Hardware

Access Virtualization for Mac OS X--Aqua Connect ACTS 3.0

Dan Kusnetzky: The good folks at Aqua Connect are in the process of releasing their newest generation of access virtualization software for Mac OS-based servers.

Enterprise Software

Xen engine 3.3 released

Dan Kusnetzky: Last week, the Xen engine version 3.3 was released on Xen.org with key enhancements focused on performance and security.

News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

Between the Lines by Larry Dignan

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho...

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First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

During the NFL season opener on September 4, Microsoft aired the first of the ads that it paid agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky $300 million-plus to create to help make...

Mary-Jo Foley

Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack

Zero Day by Dancho Danchev

In the wake of the recent malvertising attacks where malicious flash ads were appearing at trusted web sites, evidence from multiple vendors and researchers indicates that spammers and malware authors...

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Is this Tuesday's 4G nano?

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

This picture just cropped up on MacRumors of a screen cover for the 4G nano.It comes from Alibaba, a B2B marketplace (via Zollotech). Who cares about the screen protector...

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 prices

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Microsoft has slashed the price of the Xbox 360 gaming console to half of that of the PlayStation 3.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Google Chrome already beating Opera

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

Maybe Google really does have something here -- in just two days, they have leapfrogged Opera in market share, and have their eyes set on bigger fish. I would have...

Garett Rogers

My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook

Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn

The Asus EeePC is silent, it's easy to use, it runs Mozilla, Open Office and wireless networking expertly. No one needs to know it's Linux. It's light as a feather....

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

Has IT public relations arrived?

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

What happens when the organization just doesn't acknowledge IT's greatness? For one CIO, the answer lies in public relations.

Michael Krigsman

SocialCast: enterprise Twitter/FriendFeed mashup

Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett

SocialCast has revamped its group comms service, given it a facelift, aligned itself more closely to consumery apps like Twitter and FriendFeed and then given it an enterprise twist....

Dennis Howlett & Zack Whittaker

Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

Tech Broiler by Jason Perlow

The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews,...

Jason Perlow

Google's incomplete EULA climbdown

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

While the world and his dog seem satisfied with the way Google's lawyers hastily red-lined the hated Clause 11.1 of the Chrome EULA, others may not be so pleased. This...

Dennis Howlett

Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates

GreenTech Pastures by Heather Clancy

It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet...

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

Microsoft launched its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy program in early summer 2006. Its first year was, to put it charitably, a disaster. An epic fail. A big fat F...

Ed Bott

IDF and the new Mac notebooks

Storage Bits by Robin Harris

The Intel Developer Forum makes it clear what Apple's new notebooks - which I predict will be announced Tuesday, September 16 - will offer. Will it be worth the wait?...

Robin Harris

Zuora gets PayPal president on board

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

Zuora, the SaaS billing startup that was pitching itself as 'the PayPal of online business services' when it launched, has snagged PayPal's president as a board member. Here's an exclusive...

Phil Wainewright

Chrome is 42x faster than IE7, 9x faster than FF3

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

I've been testing the new Google Chrome browser and one thing's for sure: they weren't kidding about great JavaScript performance in this beta. Check out these numbers I got from...

Ed Burnette

How plants grow under the ground

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

An intercontinental team of 30 researchers composed of mathematicians, engineers, computer scientists and plant sciences researchers has developed new explanations about how root plants grow and develop. As roots provide...

Roland Piquepaille

Facebook: when targeted ads cause offense

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

It's easy to brush off an irrelevant or offensive ad if it's the result of a sledge hammer campaign that "has nothing to do with me". But when it gets...

Steve O'Hear

Qik streaming service comes to HTC Windows Mobile devices

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

I started using Qik on Nokia Nseries devices, then tried it on the Blackjack II, and finally on my original Apple iPhone. I just received a note that Qik's live...

Matthew Miller

Sony announces three all-in-one desktops

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

At a home theater show this week Sony announced three new all-in-one desktops along with a slew A/V receivers, LCD TVs and projectors, and Blu-ray players. All three AIOs offer...

John Morris

Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

Adobe just announced that the NFL is going to use Flash to deliver live, online streaming video for NBC Sunday and Thursday night football games. You can go watch the...

Ryan Stewart

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

The appliance computing culture earned its successes by focusing on the revenue generation side - and that, in turn, drove its own evolution to database technology, the "application as interfaces...

Paul Murphy

Office 2.0 Conference day one

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

David Allen discussed his 'getting things done' methodology with conference creator Ismael Ghalimi during the opening keynote session at the Office 2.0 conference at the St Regis Hotel, San Francisco....

Oliver Marks

Red Hat acquires Qumranet

Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky

I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red...

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Analyst: Google Chrome 'SOA ready'

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

There's been plenty of excellent commentary about Google's new Chrome browser provided by my colleagues here in the ZDNet community, so I'm not going to go into any nitty-gritty here....

Joe McKendrick

Interview: HP's virtualization services honcho John Bennett on 'rethinking virtualization'

BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner

The interesting thing is that as customers get engaged in these projects, their eyes start to open up in terms of what else they can do with virtualization. For customers...

Dana Gardner

BREAKING: Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops

The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca

Sony said today that it is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide due to faulty parts that could trigger overheating. The recall involves 19 models in the Vaio TZ series...

Josh Taylor and Andrew Nusca

Just-announced Nikon D90 vs. just-reduced Canon EOS 40D

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

Now that Nikon has finally announced the long-awaited Nikon D90--just days after Canon announced the EOS 50D, dropping the price on its predecessor the 40D--the big question on many people's...

Janice Chen

Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi

SOHO Networking by Sean Portnoy

Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum...

Sean Portnoy

Report: AMD to challenge Nvidia's $60 graphics

The Core Truth by John Morris

The cost of good graphics is going down fast. AMD plans to release new versions of its ATI Radeon 4000-series graphics processing units (GPUs) for entry-level graphics cards, according to...

John Morris

Microsoft Student Technology Day UK

iGeneration by Zack Whittaker

Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies...

Zack Whittaker

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe

I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I...

Mitch Ratcliffe

Ten leading platforms for creating online communities

Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe

Creating online communities of customers and workers has been one of the hotter topics in business and technology this year. Whether you're on the business side, in IT, or are...

Dion Hinchcliffe

The power of standard protocols

A Developer's View by John Carroll

I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part...

John Carroll

Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

It’s leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the...

Joshua Greenbaum

Silicon Valley's gender gap

IMHO by Tom Foremski

I recently spoke with Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, about her new book "Closing the Innovation Gap." But what about closing the gender gap? I asked her...

Tom Foremski

Vodafone's Big(ish?) Adventure

On Sustainability by James Farrar

It's fun to think of similes to categorise the headlong rush towards CO2 reductions or at least the pledges for such. I think of Vodafone's pledge of a 50% cut of the...

James Farrar

Jennifer Leggio unpacks demand letter over "branded community"

Lawgarithms by Denise Howell

Over at ZDNet's Feeds, Jennifer Leggio walks us through a cease and desist email she recently received. The email suggested her blog's use of the term "branded community" might...

Denise Howell

$600 mln worth of nanomaterials for electronics to sell in 2008

IT Facts by AM

The global market for nanomaterials for electronics applications will reach $600 mln in 2008 and grow at a compound annual rate of more than 40% to reach nearly $7 bln...

Alex Moskalyuk

Eight pitfalls of predictive markets

Team Think by Dave Greenfield

Predictive markets sound like such a great idea for determining what will work in the market and what won't. But misplaced trust in these markets can spell gloom and...

David Greenfield

The easiest little Web page ever built

Feeds by Jennifer Leggio

Even design and coding novices can create a social media newsroom for their Web sites without even the slightest touch of stress -- and only requiring basic cut + paste...

Jennifer Leggio

Revenge of the techies

The IT Grind by Deb Perelman

Stealing office supplies has never been so menacing. A new survey evidences all too well where the power can fall in enterprise IT relationships: into the hands of spiteful employees.

Deb Perelman

Community managers and corporate structure

Community, Incorporated by Joe Brockmeier

Stormy Peters reflects on where community managers ought to reside in the corporate structure. According to Bernard Golden, community managers ought to be in the support structure of a business....

Joe Brockmeier

Microsoft's Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0

The Web Life by Andrew Mager

San Francisco's summer starts when the rest of the country's summer ends: Labor Day. The weather here in The City finally becomes pleasant, and techy companies like to have lunches...

Andrew Mager

Europe discussing the business of the Semantic Web at ESTC

The Semantic Web by Paul Miller

I've written before about the importance of events that move us past introspection and academic debate, and bring the real benefits of semantic technologies to a wider business audience. As...

Paul Miller

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program will begin selling its XO laptop via Amazon this year in a reprise of its Give One Get One (G1G1) program, according to...

Christopher Dawson

Martin jabs back at Comcast over suit

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin responded to Comcast's lawsuit challenging the agency's authority to sanction the company. "Given Comcast's past failure to disclose its network management practices to its customers,...

Richard Koman

Best way to sell drugs is to talk to your doctor

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

A Harvard study of direct-to-consumer advertising, using French Canadians as a control group, found expensive TV ads foo drugs like Nasonex, Enbrel and Zelnorm had, at best, a transitory impact...

Dana Blankenhorn

  • 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

    Sean Portnoy

    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.

  • Tech Broiler

    Jason Perlow

  • 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 IT Grind

    Deb Perelman

  • 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 and Andrew Nusca

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

  • The Universal Desktop