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Will the Olympics melt the Internet?

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Okay, sky-is-falling fans and network neutrality proponents: We're about to find out whether the Internet can--or will--break down under the strain of mass consumption of streaming video.

Companies

The shine is off another apple

Deb Perelman: An Apple employee alleges that the company denied technical staffers overtime pay and other compensations required by state law. Has this happened to you?

Enterprise Software

Hello, Google, is anyone in there?

Phil Wainewright: Sooner or later, Google will realize that if it aspires to be a business-class SaaS provider, then it's going to have to take customer service seriously.

Product Review Blogs

Apple may nuke iPhone apps remotely

Larry Dignan: Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked.

Operating Systems

LinuxWorld: All I got was a stupid T-shirt

Jason Perlow: No hot chicks, no big announcements, and no big parties. But that's actually good news because it means that Linux is officially mainstream.

Security

Critical IE, Office, Excel patches coming

Ryan Naraine: Next Tuesday, Microsoft will ship 12 security bulletins with fixes for serious vulnerabilities in a wide range of of widely deployed products.

Enterprise Hardware

ThinkPad X200 reviews: Great ultraportable but it's no X300

John Morris: The X200 is one of eight new ThinkPads and is designed to bring some of the features of the pricey 13.3-inch X300 to a broader audience.

Communications

Nokia Email service drastically improves on S60 devices

Matthew Miller: The Nokia Email service is significantly different than the default S60 Messaging client and brings your email back into the 21st century. It's free beta is now available.

IT Management

Verdiem offers free energy-monitoring software

Heather Clancy: The company is releasing a free consumer application called Edison that can be used to manage your desktop computer's energy consumption.

General News

Teaching language to robots

Roland Piquepaille: Plymouth University researchers will build two robots using software allowing them to interact with each other to exchange learned information like humans.

Banking On The Internet Breaking

Between the Lines by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

So, on the day the Olympics open, the head of Tellabs – which helps telecommunications carriers deliver high-quality voice, video and data services around the world -- is talking about...

<font size="5">Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld</font>

Microsoft (finally) speaks out on 'Fiji'

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

It only took two-plus years, but Microsoft finally issued on August 8 its official comment about Fiji, a k a "Windows Media Center TV Pack."

Mary-Jo Foley

CNET's Clientside developer blog serving Adobe Flash exploits

Zero Day by Dancho Danchev

Yesterday, Websense Labs issued an alert regarding a compromised CNET blog, namely the Clientside developer blog which has been embedded with a malicious javascript code attempting to exploit the visitors...

Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters

Rumor Mill: September event, iTunes streaming

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

It's Friday, which means that it's time to round up the current crop of Apple rumors making the rounds. September iBook MacBook Updates – Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster published...

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

Warning to iPhone Apps devs - Apple can make your apps vanish on a whim

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

The sudden and unexplained removal of Armin Heinrich's $999.99 "I Am Rich" should act as a warning to other iPhone apps developers out there - Apple can make your apps...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Google says AOL is a lemon, regretting $1 billion investment

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

According to Google's 10-Q filing, Google is regretting their $1 billion investment in AOL for 5% of the company. They have determined that AOL looks like a lemon, and they...

Garett Rogers

Open Gear and cloud infrastructure

Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn

The efficiency of Linux in using system resources makes it a great choice for controlling the cloud, but beneath that management layer you can run anything -- any application stack...

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

Qantas IT problems cause Sydney airport "chaos"

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

Poor staff training on Qantas' new Altea Departure Control-Flight Management system led to delays on flights departing from Sydney, Australia. Given the airline's poor IT record, no one should be...

Michael Krigsman

Zoho's millions

Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett

  It's not often I get excited by adoption numbers but the fact Zoho has passed the million user landmark represents an outstanding achievement and a cause for celebration. Zoli...

Dennis Howlett & Zack Whittaker

I went to Moscone Center and all I got was this stupid T-Shirt

Tech Broiler by Jason Perlow

Where's the hot chicks? Yeah you heard it, Summer LinuxWorld Expo sucked. Again. No, I didn't go this year. In fact, I haven't gone in two years. So how...

Jason Perlow

The data center cost conundrum

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

The other day I stumbled across a BusinessWeek slide gallery that shows the comparative cost of the five lowest cost data center towns in the US. Not being an...

Dennis Howlett

HP reincarnate old ink cartridges as key part for new printer

GreenTech Pastures by Heather Clancy

Here's a fun use for discarded ink cartridges: turn them into the printhead of a new printer. That's what Hewlett-Packard has done with its HP Photosmart D5460. The printhead of...

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

You’ve got Vista x64 questions, I’ve got answers

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

I got a lot of great questions and comments via e-mail and in the Talkback section of my previous post on the sudden surge in adoption rates for Windows Vista...

Ed Bott

HGST demos 600Gbit/in² disk density

Storage Bits by Robin Harris

Disk vendors have a rough idea of how other to reach 10 TB drives within 10 years. But what about 2 years? Hitachi global storage technologies has announced that they...

Robin Harris

Hello, Google, is anyone in there?

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

We can converse and do business instantly with strangers on the opposite side of the planet, but when something goes wrong with one of the largest providers of Internet technology,...

Phil Wainewright

The astounding $14million Ethernet extender

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

I was helping a friend find a good price on a powerline Ethernet extender like the one I bought a few months ago, and stumbled upon this bargain: Luckily I...

Ed Burnette

Software to improve AIDS survival?

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

As you all know, there are more than 33 million people living with AIDS worldwide. No cure or vaccine has been unveiled this week in Mexico during the International AIDS...

Roland Piquepaille

Parents spy on underage social networkers

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

Children regularly circumvent age verification systems on social networks such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, according to a new survey of young people's online activities in the UK. In response,...

Steve O'Hear

Celio REDFLY appears at online retailer stores

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

I have reviewed and mentioned the Celio REDFLY Mobile Companion here on my blog a couple of times. I just read on the Celio blog that you can now find...

Matthew Miller

ThinkPad X200 reviews: Great ultraportable . . . but it's no X300

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

The X200 is one of eight new ThinkPads--including the SL series for small business--that Lenovo announced as part of Intel's Centrino 2 launch. The 12.1-inch wide-screen ultraportable, which replaces the...

John Morris

Silverlight and DoubleClick: Old news with a new press release

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

In the news but not news category we're getting a press release from Google that basically covers what they talked about at MIX earlier this year. It's a great deal...

Ryan Stewart

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

The thing that's most striking about the "heavy lifting" carried out by the typical zSeries based data center in 2006? There have been changes in execution, but not in role...

Paul Murphy

'ESME': Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environment

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

There are interesting community driven enterprise developments around SAP's 'Netweaver' SOA ('service-oriented application') and integration platform, with a sophisticated Twitter - style tool created by a diverse group of international...

Oliver Marks

ClearCube VDI Suite

Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky

ClearCube recently announced its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Suite. The goal is to increase the power of previous ClearCube offerings and intice others to join the party. Here's how ClearCube...

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Expert: SOA vulnerable to DNS security flaw, too

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

This just in from the Black Hat security confab currently taking place in Las Vegas: Dan Kaminsky, a well-known IT security researcher, disclosed his findings around the Domain Name Server...

Joe McKendrick

Sybase rides growing database business into mobility innovation, says Chen at user conference

BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner

For mobility, in a year where the Apple iPhone gained the lion's share of attention (despite Symbian's dominance), Sybase is driving toward the "unwired enterprise" to bring the analytics world...

Dana Gardner

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Share, compare gas mileage

The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca

New web app Fuelly tracks your car's mileage per gallon (MPG), shares it with friends and compares it to the mileage of other Fuelly users. Sign up for Fuelly and...

Josh Taylor and Andrew Nusca

Nikon announces six new Coolpix cameras: P6000, S710, S60, S610c, S610, and S560

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

Included in Nikon's blast today are six new Coolpix cameras that sport features like built-in GPS (the P6000), a 3.5-inch touchscreen (the S60), and built-in WiFi (the S610c). Ranging in...

Janice Chen

AT&T blunders on free Wi-Fi for iPhones

SOHO Networking by Rik Fairlie

AT&T just can’t commit. To free Wi-Fi for iPhone 3G customers, that is. The company seems to be having a blunder-fest with announcements that iPhone 3G customers can get free...

Rik Fairlie

The lowdown on Intel's Larrabee

The Core Truth by John Morris

With Siggraph 2008 starting next week and IDF (Intel Developer Forum) on its heels, Intel is revealing more details of its mysterious Larrabee project. Intel has finally stated unequivocally that...

John Morris

Office Labs 'target' busy multitaskers

iGeneration by Zack Whittaker

'Targets' - shameless pun. I apologise. Microsoft, admittedly, have done some good things over the last few weeks, and again they've rolled something out which could really benefit students. I've...

Zack Whittaker

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again

Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe

Vint Cerf, one of the co-inventors of the underlying technology that makes the Web work, now Google's Internet evangelist, has issued a call for throughput-based pricing by ISPs. This in...

Mitch Ratcliffe

Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam

Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe

The days when organizations carefully cultivated vast data centers consisting of an endless sea of hardware and software are not over, at least not yet. However, the groundwork for their...

Dion Hinchcliffe

DVB-H and government overreach

A Developer's View by John Carroll

Germany is facing difficulties finding a workable business model for the mandatory DVB-H mobile video broadcasting standard. Perhaps the problem is that governments are trying to impose technology standards ahead...

John Carroll

Friendly Fire: SAP Flubs the Maintenance Business

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

You’d think, based on the timing, that Oracle was trying to deliberately make a PR run on what was looking like, and turned out to be, some pretty good news...

Joshua Greenbaum

The government has an "iPatriot Act" ready for Internet control

IMHO by Tom Foremski

My video of Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University talking about an "iPatriot Act" has received a lot of views thanks to a post on the top blog...

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

French PC market grew 9.6% in Q1 2008

IT Facts by NB

French PC market started the year at a healthy pace, with shipments recording 9.6% YOY growth in Q1 2008. Strong notebook sales drove overall market dynamics, especially in the consumer...

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

Social giving for charity begets social giving for community

Feeds by Jennifer Leggio

Normally I don't write about specific events but I'm making an exception as this is almost a mini overview for how charity in social media can turn into a benefit...

Jennifer Leggio

My Awesome IT Job: Developer, New York Times

The IT Grind by Deb Perelman

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that...

Deb Perelman

Rejaw launches, but seems a little Twittery

The Web Life by Andrew Mager

If Twitter is a busted old '66 El Camino, then Rejaw is a Toyota Prius. The new kid on the block claims to be better, but it's more fun to...

Andrew Mager

The Semantic Web is about bringing information to life

The Semantic Web by Paul Miller

So says Vincent Maher, in a recent post that suggests he's sat in one too many of those meetings; "There is nothing more frustrating than a gaggle of geeks sitting...

Paul Miller

Apple prices are just peachy

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

I'm always looking for a bargain. I'm in charge of buying technology for a small, rural school district; I don't spend much time deciding between SLI video options for my...

Christopher Dawson

Gang of sniffers provided tech support with a smile

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

Computerworld gets a kick out of the world of black tech support (as opposed to the black market) revealed in the indictment of an international band of online thieves who...

Richard Koman

Linus Pauling's revenge

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

Levine's study gave cancer to mice, then injected them with Vitamin C, and found tumor growth in the injected mice was cut 53%.

Dana Blankenhorn

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

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    Larry Dignan 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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    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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    Real world collaboration strategy for enterprises

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

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    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 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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    Jennifer Leggio delivers news on social media tools and trends and deep dives into business strategies.

  • Googling Google

    Garett Rogers

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Talking 'bout the next generation of IT users

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    Dennis Howlett

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

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    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.

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    John Morris

    John Morris delivers straight talk about notebook and desktop computers.

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

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    "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.

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

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    Robin Harris

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

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    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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    John Morris

    John Morris delivers straight talk about semiconductors.

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    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.

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    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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    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.

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