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Here are ZDNet's 10 favorite items from the past week, including the 120GB iPod Classic, Nikon D90 digital SLR, and Seagate's FreeAgent Go portable hard drive.

Security

Dropping the iPhone NDA is good for security

Adam O'Donnell: Last week Apple lifted their NDA on iPhone developers, freeing them to discuss amongst themselves how to properly build applications.

Enterprise Hardware

The quad-core laptops are here...sort of

John Morris: The first laptops from Dell, Lenovo, and HP with quad-core chips are now available for order and reviews are giving a glimpse of the performance you can expect from these 17-inch powerhouses.

Companies

eBay doubles down, buys Bill Me Later

Larry Dignan: Coupling Bill Me Later with PayPal gives eBay a great one-two punch in online payments. If CEO John Donahoe's bold move works, eBay could be the Visa or Mastercard of the Web.

Web Technology

Obama launches iPhone app

Steve O'Hear: The most notable feature of the new "Obama for America" iPhone application is the ability to tap your iPhone's existing address book in order to prioritize your contacts "by key battleground states."

Operating Systems

Microsoft extends XP downgrade rights date by six months

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is going to extend again the date until which PC makers would be allowed to continue to offer Windows users "downgrade rights," enabling them to switch from Vista to XP on new machines.

Enterprise Software

Why bother with desktop virtualization?

Dan Kusnetzky: Aren't today's laptops, desktops and handheld devices good enough to get the job done? Some suppliers, after all, will promise the sun and the stars, but in the end only provide the moon.

Communications

Sony eBook device adds light and touch

Matthew Miller: Sony just announced the Sony Reader PRS-700 with touch screen functionality. Even more impressive to me than the touch screen functionality is the integrated LED reading light.

General News

Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?

Roland Piquepaille: There are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbiting the Earth and if something goes wrong with one, it become another piece of space junk.

IT Management

Forrester: There's really no such thing as 'green IT'

Heather Clancy: Forrester is advising IT managers to forget about the notion that there's any such thing as TRULY green technology. Yes, folks, it's part of that green tech backlash that we've all been expecting.

  • 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.

  • Smartphones and Cell Phones

    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.

  • Software & Services Safari

    Brian Sommer

  • 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

    Irreverent, unapologetically arrogant and uncensored, IT Professional Services industry veteran Jason Perlow muses on a cornucopia of topics on all matters of Information Technology.

  • 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

    Ryan Stewart

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

  • The Web Life

    Andrew Mager

    Capturing the atmosphere of the Silicon Valley tech experience.

  • 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 & Adam O'Donnell

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

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