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Microsoft to deliver free anti-malware

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Code-named "Morro," the product, which is scheduled for release during the second half of 2009, will offer protection against viruses, spyware, rootkits and Trojans.

Operating Systems

A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801)

Ed Bott: The deeper I dive into Windows 7, the more I discover, including subtle changes and tweaks that aren't obvious in a first look. In this post and its accompanying image gallery, I'll share some of those details with you.

Product Review Blogs

Is the BlackBerry Storm too 'consumer'?

Andrew Nusca: Enterprise customers getting hold of the long-awaited BlackBerry Storm are discovering that the smartphone isn't quite as "enterprise" as they might have hoped.

Companies

Dell: How bad is it?

Larry Dignan: Dell's fiscal third quarter isn't expected to be pretty. The only real question is where Dell's quarter falls on the ugly scale.

IT Management

Stepford: A vision of IT utopia

Michael Krigsman: Call it "Stepford IT," where business people have (finally) been trained to carry forth IT's bidding with flawless accuracy and pleasing smiles. Yes, this is indeed IT utopia in action.

Enterprise Hardware

First Core i7 desktops from Dell, Alienware and Gateway

John Morris: Now that Intel has officially released its Core i7 processor, fresh desktops are arriving daily.

Enterprise Software

Two more Microsoft Labs deliverables debut

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's Live Labs - the unit that married Microsoft Researchers with MSN developers - quietly delivered a new spinoff to its Seadragon technology. And there's also a test applet known as "Sticky Sorter."

Web Technology

Flash coming for WiMo, Android, ... iPhone?

Ed Burnette: Apple isn't exactly known for bowing to pressure, but Mr. Jobs had to be sweating just a little under his turtleneck Monday when Adobe demonstrated Flash Player 10 running on rivals' software.

General News

Towards a World Wide Grid?

Roland Piquepaille: The g-Eclipse project aims to build an integrated workbench framework to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures.

Communications

T-Mobile announces the cameo wireless photo frame

Matthew Miller: T-Mobile and Parrot have come together to launch the T-Mobile cameo, a MMS photo frame, that allows anyone to send photos from their cellphone to the picture frame.

The future of... Mobile device chargers [video]

Between the Lines by Larry Dignan

No power? No problem. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes a look at kinetic energy technology that charges mobile phones and devices without ever needing an electrical outlet. The mobile device...

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

Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in 2010

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

Microsoft's just-announced free anti-virus/anti-malware service, codenamed Morro, isn't the only new Microsoft security service in the works. There's a Microsoft-hosted security service for businesses in the pipeline, too, and it's...

Mary-Jo Foley

Malware found in Lenovo software package

Zero Day by Ryan Naraine

Computer maker Lenovo is shipping a malware-infected software package to Windows XP users, according to warning from anti-virus researchers at Microsoft. The malicious file was identified by Microsoft as Win32/Meredrop,...

<font size="5">Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev & Adam O'Donnell</font>

Sneak Peek: BlackBerry Storm

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

Apple ignited a firestorm of competition when it announced the iPhone in January of 2007. Since then the touchscreen smartphone segment has been ablaze with competition from all the major...

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

Holiday Gift Guide: High-end hardware

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Lists ... if there's one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it's lists. Over the next few weeks I've planned on posting several kit lists...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Consumer Watchdog overreacts about Gmail

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

ConsumerWatchdog.org isn't too impressed with the way Gmail works -- they are convinced that Google isn't respecting the privacy of their users. Click here to watch the video Some things...

Garett Rogers

Can database lock-in be broken

Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn

It seems to be an Iron Law. As a database structure grows more complex the cost of shifting vendors becomes prohibitive. Free becomes expensive and expensive nearly free.

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

Stepford: A vision of IT utopia

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

In this ideal world, business users gratefully accept whatever techno-babble nonsense IT throws at them, with technology having become utterly divorced from any business purpose whatsoever.

Michael Krigsman

JobBlogs: Facebook for business

Enterprise Alley by Zack Whittaker

I've been a little busy over the last few weeks, but it hasn't all been drinking and partying. I've been looking into JobBlogs, which has a highly innovative SaaS appliance,...

Dennis Howlett & Zack Whittaker

UPS saves $30M and goes Green with new HP printing and scanning handheld

Tech Broiler by Jason Perlow

UPS partnered with Hewlett-Packard on the new sp400 All-in-One wireless handheld laser barcode scanner combo that can print directly onto packages, which saves paper and streamlines UPS's shipping processes....

Jason Perlow

Merrill Lynch downgrades SAP and Oracle

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

It should come as no surprise that investment research at Merrill Lynch sees downgraded assessments of both SAP and Oracle's near terms results. In the last month, Merrill has conducted...

Dennis Howlett

Please, give me a few billion, pretty please

GreenTech Pastures by Harry Fuller

The chances are dimming for any loans to the automakers this year. There's a stall, a back-up, a traffic jam in Congress according to the blogosphere. The Detroit Big Three...

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801)

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

Microsoft took the wraps off Windows 7 for the first time at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles three weeks ago. Since returning from PDC, I’ve been installing and...

Ed Bott

Where flash belongs

Storage Bits by Robin Harris

Putting flash into disk packaging, while convenient, is sub-optimal. Disk latency is so great that no one worries about adding a few hundred microseconds to an I/O. But once you've...

Robin Harris

It's different, developing to the cloud

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

Platform-as-a-service dramatically it changes the development process. But don't take it from me - Microsoft's cloud platform Windows Azure was itself developed in the cloud, and its developers learnt a...

Phil Wainewright

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Big Nerd Ranch. To make things...

Ed Burnette

Towards a World Wide Grid?

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

In recent months, the concept of 'cloud computing' was all the buzz. European researchers think about another name, the World Wide Grid, which could run on top of the Internet....

Roland Piquepaille

MySpace comes to Blackberry

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

It was only a few days ago that I noted how Facebook and social networking as a whole is fueling the mobile web. And news comes today that RIM have...

Steve O'Hear

T-Mobile announces the cameo wireless photo frame to display camera phone images

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

Do you have a camera-enabled phone, but don't know what to do with all of those captured images? Would you like to share those images with family and friends? Well,...

Matthew Miller

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Top 5 Netbooks

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

The biggest surprise of 2008 was the arrival of netbooks. Asus was the first in the pool with its Eee PC, and after some initial hesitation, the big guys...

John Morris

Google's video chat plugin - a big deal for RIA developers

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

A couple of days ago Google released a video chat plugin for Gmail. With Google, it's always a little hard to figure out where all of the pieces fit -...

Ryan Stewart

Dick, Jane, and MySQL: why recessions favor open source

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

Recessions are good for open source simply because they force non IT management to face the costs of IT -and think a bit about what they know it can do...

Paul Murphy

Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners,...

Oliver Marks

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Free cell phones

Smartphones and Cell Phones by Matthew Miller

The holiday shopping season is upon us and with people's concerns about the economy spending will most likely be down and buyers will be looking for deals for gifts. In...

Matthew Miller

Lanamark Vready

Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky

Mark Angelo, CEO of Lanamark, dropped by to tell me about Vready, a new service his company is offering. I've spoken with representatives with many smaller organizations and think that...

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Deep down inside, on a subconscious level, the business loves SOA, right?

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

I recall the words of one observer a couple of years back: "How many businesspeople do you know have ever come begging to you for SOA?" Geek & Poke's Oliver...

Joe McKendrick

Changing business landscape makes identity and access management key to IT security

BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner

To learn more about how enterprises can begin coordinated identity and access management strategies, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Dan Rueckert, worldwide practice director for security and risk management in...

Dana Gardner

ZDNet's 2008 Holiday Gift Guide

The ToyBox by Josh Taylor

What good is it to have the best line-up of product bloggers around if they can't help you pick out holiday presents? With that in mind, we tapped our...

Josh Taylor and Andrew Nusca

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: The best entry-level digital SLRs

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

With prices on digital SLRs continuing to erode, it's getting easier and easier to make the jump from compact point-and-shoot cameras to dSLRs. If your favorite snapshooter is ready to...

Janice Chen

HomePlug revival continues with new Netgear Powerline gear

SOHO Networking by Sean Portnoy

Remember when, not so long ago, home networking using power lines seemed down for the count due to slow throughput rates, especially as Draft N wireless devices entered the...

Sean Portnoy

AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal

The Core Truth by John Morris

Lost in all of the (inaccurate) commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company's product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and...

John Morris

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget home theater setups

Home Theater by Sean Portnoy

This is the first of a series of buying guides for those looking forward to this holiday season as a time to assemble a home theater system. First up:...

Sean Portnoy

Microsoft give students the finger, once again

iGeneration by Zack Whittaker

Today, Zack writes a short letter to Microsoft, asking why they keep screwing with his head and changing their plans all the time.

Zack Whittaker

Thanks to Google, writers' lives may be even more thankless, unless....

Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe

The announcement that Google has settled its book scanning lawsuit with The Author's Guild raises all sorts of hopes for digital use of new and previously published books. But without...

Mitch Ratcliffe

Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolves

Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe

Late last week an important milestone for the Internet was quietly reached as the number of available open Web APIs crossed the 1,000 mark, according to the popular API tracking...

Dion Hinchcliffe

Computers make the case for globalization

A Developer's View by John Carroll

The United States has long been sliding towards trade skepticism, a process that has merely been exaggerated by the recent troubles in financial markets. Low-cost computers and its associated market...

John Carroll

Microsoft, Creative Financing, and the Bank of EAC

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

Microsoft’s announcement that it would offer 0% financing to new customers of its Dynamics product line is a welcome offering at a time when the credit crisis requires out-of-the-box solutions...

Joshua Greenbaum

Microsoft's cloud is more about Notes migration and less about a new IT architecture

IMHO by Tom Foremski

Monday morning I went to Microsoft's launch of new online services. Previously they were only available for large companies now they are available to any size business in the US...

Tom Foremski

Intel Tops Dow Jones Sustainabilty Index (again)

On Sustainability by James Farrar

The Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) results for 2008 are out, and although I’m not a huge fan of corporate sustainability beauty pageants, this one is probably the most credible...

James Farrar

Barack Obama is male, taken, and CC licensed

Lawgarithms by Denise Howell

While John McCain recently complained about Google's application of the DMCA, Barack Obama has been quietly employing a Creative Commons license for his Flickr photostream.

Denise Howell

42% of organizations reported unauthorized access to their Active Directory

IT Facts by AM

Imanami commissioned a survey with Osterman Research to understand the issues related to managing groups in Active Directory, and found that 42% of organizations reported unauthorized access to information from...

Alex Moskalyuk

Nortel’s Loss, Good News for the Enterprise

Team Think by Dave Greenfield

As I was reading about Nortel’s rerun today, I was thinking that there might be a silver-lining in all of this for enterprise folk.  The bad news, of course,...

David Greenfield

Giddyap - Oracle Mid-market apps team with Wells Fargo

Software & Services Safari by Brian Sommer

A Treasury Solution to Save Money (not cost more of it) I got a briefing from Oracle's Tony Kender and Wells Fargo's Brad Stewart concerning their new joint plug-in adapter...

Brian Sommer

Social media marketers can - and must - prove ROI

Feeds by Jennifer Leggio

This post is a warning for folks that they need to end their debating before they are fired, or as we like to call it during these times "downsized."

Jennifer Leggio

'The devil you know' keeps worried workers in place

The IT Grind by Deb Perelman

So, let's say that you're one of the lucky ones who slip out from under the economic downturn's merciless grip, and you get to keep your job. Aside from keeping...

Deb Perelman

Mozilla Project ready for rough economic times

Community, Incorporated by Joe Brockmeier

The Mozilla Foundation has posted its 2007 financial statements and tax forms, and Mitchell Baker points out that Mozilla's revenue is up over 2006, and things look good for the...

Joe Brockmeier

Who owns social media?

The Web Life by Andrew Mager

Who really owns your social data? That is the question that will be debated tonight at the headquarters of CBS Interactive in San Francisco, along with many others. The Social...

Andrew Mager

With Glue, AdaptiveBlue frees us from the tyranny of the site

The Semantic Web by Paul Miller

Glue from AdaptiveBlue has been out since late last month, and various sites have provided reviews of this useful little tool. See, for example, Dan Farber, Chris Morrison, Sarah Perez,...

Paul Miller

Enterprise mashups need complexity to create value

Forrester Research by Gil Yehuda

Those who drink the Web 2.0 Kool-aid live in a idealistic world where we can mentally connect a great idea to a great implementation of that idea. We live on...

The View from Forrester Research

Did Microsoft really kill OLPC?

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

I posted a number of pieces Monday about OLPC and its XO laptop (now for sale on Amazon in a reboot of the Give One Get One program), one of...

Christopher Dawson

Witnesses set for MySpace suicide trial

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

Well, it's shaping up to be a juicy time at the trial of psycho-mom Lori Drew, the woman whose weirdo obsession with a neighbor girl led to the teen's MySpace-driven...

Richard Koman

CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!

CRM by Paul Greenberg

Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least. ...

Paul Greenberg

Holding VistA's age against it

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

In computing it is common to disparage old code. Old code runs on old machines. Old code is obsolete. Old code must be replaced. This common canard is being pushed...

Dana Blankenhorn

  • Linux and Open Source

    Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

    Covering all aspects of the shared software, shared processes business model, including open spectrum, an open Internet and the implications of open source values on politics and society.

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    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.

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