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Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: With Vista, you have an OS that comes in four retail flavors, but the differences between these editions comes down to little more than arbitrary decisions made for the sake of marketing

Product Review Blogs

Nokia N79, N85 announced for October release

Matthew Miller: The Nokia N79 has a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash along with Xpress-on smart covers in five colors that change the screen theme to match the back cover.

Web Technology

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: when it comes to performance, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is three times faster than the Internet Explorer 7. But Firefox 3.1 still passes the Acid test.

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General News

Wireless networks mimicking biological systems

Roland Piquepaille: The goal of the EU-funded WINSOC project is to build self-organizing networks of wireless sensors by applying principles learned from living organisms.

Communications

Comcast sets broadband cap

Larry Dignan: With Comcast implementing a broadband cap of 250 GB of data per month you can rest assured that other carriers will quickly follow.

IT Management

Google Apps dashboard: Serious about the enterprise?

Michael Krigsman: Google's interest in a dashboard for its Apps Premier product lineprovides further evidence Google is serious about becoming an enterprise software vendor.

Companies

Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated

Jason D. O'Grady: Although Bloomberg quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and date of his death.

Security

iPhone passcode lock rendered useless

Ryan Naraine: The feature, which lets users set a four-digit pincode to limit access to the device, can be easily bypassed with a few finger taps on the iPhone to give an intruder access to sensitive information.

Enterprise Hardware

Netbooks just want to be free

John Morris: At a trade show in Berlin, T-Mobile confirmed that it will sell an Asus Eee PC 901 netbook with built-in 3G. Bundles added to the Netbooks are making their value rise.

Enterprise Software

Virtual desktop solutions and mobility

Dan Kusnetzky: Several suppliers, including Citrix and VDIworks, have come about work they're doing to address the inhibitors to deploying VDI-based solutions. Here are some of the issues.

JavaScript 2.0: Why Give Programmers Crutches?

Between the Lines by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

[Guest Comment from Shane Steinert-Threlkeld] A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the...

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Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

I was not a fan of Opera Software's antitrust sabre-rattling a few months back over Microsoft's lack of standards compliancy with its browser. But Opera's latest complaints about Internet Explorer...

Mary-Jo Foley

Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy

Zero Day by Dancho Danchev

No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while...

Ryan Naraine & Dancho Danchev

iPhone tethering rumored

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

When I travel I carry a second phone alongside my iPhone – for one reason. Tethering. I need to be able to get online wherever I am and Wi-Fi isn't...

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

Psystar files answer to Apple complaint - "M" word used enthusiastically

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Mac clone maker Psystar has filed answers to Apple's complaint.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

First images of Google-powered HTC Dream

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

It was rumored that the HTC G1 (Dream) would be the first Google powered phone on the market, and if everything pans out, those rumors will end up being true...

Garett Rogers

Where the Linux laptops live

Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn

Almost one-third of the 25 top-selling laptops at Amazon.com are sold with Linux.

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

Google Apps dashboard: Serious about the enterprise?

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

Google is developing a system status reporting dashboard for its Apps Premier product line. This decision provides further evidence Google is serious about becoming an enterprise software vendor.

Michael Krigsman

GoBootstrap: simplifying SME accounting

Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett

I'm keen to see startups in the accounting for small business space. Part of that is because I spent more years than I care to remember in finance roles,...

Dennis Howlett & Zack Whittaker

My father, the casemodder

Tech Broiler by Jason Perlow

I love hearing about these wacky aesthetic computer modifications that people do. While a lot of them definitely have the "cool" factor, most aren't exactly useful or practical. But when...

Jason Perlow

Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

The Irregulars draws its 'crew' from a wide and varied group of technology interests. One is Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow. These are the brightest of the brightest among EDS...

Dennis Howlett

Green Plug snags heavy hitter for board

GreenTech Pastures by Heather Clancy

Who says green tech isn't rocket science? Starting Sept. 1, green tech start-up Green Plug, which is pushing for the concept of a universal power converter, has appointed former White...

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

An IE8 Beta 2 Q&A

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

Yesterday I published my first look at the just-released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. I got some great comments in the Talkback thread and via e-mail and thought it...

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

Mashing up the client to the cloud

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

The conventional wisdom of Office 2.0 says applications must be browser-only. But does that miss opportunities to use the cloud more efficiently and give users a more functional and satisfying...

Phil Wainewright

New Android Market is YouTube for mobile applications

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

Google released early details yesterday about their plans for Android Market, an online bazaar for programs that run on Android phones. Essentially an Android version of the iPhone's popular App...

Ed Burnette

Israeli caviar coming to supermarkets?

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

Even if you don't often buy real caviar because of its high price, you know that the worldwide production of this gourmet treat has been drastically reduced in recent years...

Roland Piquepaille

Yahoo Buzz! opens up, let the gaming begin

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

Buzz, Yahoo's social news site and “meme tracker”, has opened its submission process so that any site on the Web can now be 'buzzed'. Prior to today, only select publishers...

Steve O'Hear

Android Market is Google's competitor to the Apple iPhone store

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

I was sent a link to the Android Community site this morning that led to the Android Developers blog post on the upcoming Android Market that looks to rival the...

Matthew Miller

Netbooks just want to be free

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

At a trade show in Berlin, T-Mobile confirmed that it will sell an Asus Eee PC 901 netbook with built-in 3G. If the prices on these bundles come close to...

John Morris

Mozilla Ubiquity: Is Mozilla building out a different kind of RIA platform?

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. I watched the Mozilla Ubiquity video last night and it struck a chord. The crew over at Mozilla Labs is doing...

Ryan Stewart

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

The most important thing to know about the appliance computing culture is that it's not interested in computers or computing - these things are seen purely as means to an...

Paul Murphy

'Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron?' Be the Voice Podcast with David Spark.

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

I recorded a 25 minute conversation about my enterprise collaboration consulting work and blogging with David Spark a couple of weeks ago for his 'Be The Voice' thought leadership...

Oliver Marks

Virtual desktop solutions and mobility

Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky

Several suppliers, including Citrix and VDIworks, have come forward to speak with me about work they're doing to address the inhibitors to deploying VDI-based solutions. Here are some of the...

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Debate rages over SOA's 'cloudy' future

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

Will SOA fade into WOA, or will SOA subsume WOA?

Joe McKendrick

Databases leverage MapReduce technology to radically juice data scale, performance, analytics

BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner

With better data reach and inclusion, come better results. So BI allows leaders can establish the trends early that will determine their future success or failures. In a fast-paced, global,...

Dana Gardner

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Speed up Vista installation via thumb drive

The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca

It's Labor Day weekend. Have you given your computer a fresh Windows install for the holiday? (If you're the kind of guy or gal who's into periodically wiping your hard...

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

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

About Atom: Intel's big plans for its little chip

The Core Truth by John Morris

One of the bolder goals Intel set at IDF this week is that within a decade it wants ship 1 billion Intel-based mobile computing devices each year. That's a big...

John Morris

The depressing future of the Internet

iGeneration by Zack Whittaker

A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could...

Zack Whittaker

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use...

Mitch Ratcliffe

Are we ready to declare the "time of death" for the enterprise data center?

Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe

The announcement this week of the launch of Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) adds another vital piece to the cloud computing picture. The announcement is particularly significant since it takes...

Dion Hinchcliffe

The role of media in the Internet age

A Developer's View by John Carroll

Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following (a group among whom I include myself), is attending...

John Carroll

The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage...

Joshua Greenbaum

A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .

IMHO by Tom Foremski

I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly...

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

India search market in June 2008

IT Facts by NB

Searches, mln. Searchers, 000 Searches Per Searcher Visits Per Searcher Searches Per Visit Worldwide 74,217 802,267 92.5 23.6 3.9 India 1,242 23,416 53.1 14.7 3.6 Source: comScore SHARETHIS.addEntry( {...

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

Cool Tools - What is your Twitter grade?

Feeds by Jennifer Leggio

HubSpot has launched what it is calling the Twitter Grader, which seems to be the now-defunct Tweeterboard reincarnate -- yet with a proposed business purpose. The grader allows Twitter users...

Jennifer Leggio

Things you've probably done this summer instead of work

The IT Grind by Deb Perelman

Those deeply ingrained school year patterns of summers off aren't easily forgotten once you work all year round. Fact is, everyone slacks off a little in the summer, and this...

Deb Perelman

Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash

The Web Life by Andrew Mager

On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people...

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

Empower your people

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

It's the beginning of the year and I'm going out of my mind. Even though we've added my position of "Technology Director" and I don't have to teach anymore, we're...

Christopher Dawson

Comcast sets 250GB ceiling

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

Now, it's official. Comcast will impose a 250GB monthly cap on its Internet customers, as the SF Chronicle reports. Violators will get a notice and a warning. If you do...

Richard Koman

See the heart beat in real time from outside

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

The Acuson SC2000 ultrasound lets a doctor watch your heart beat, in real-time, from outside your chest.

Dana Blankenhorn

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