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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

Polaroid-style film is back

Fujifilm announced today that it will be releasing its Instax 200 instant film camera (and the instant color film, of course) to the U.S. market in late December.

Companies

Ding, dong: Yang is gone. Now what?

Mary Jo Foley: Within minutes of the announcement of Jerry Yang's demotion from Yahoo CEO, for the umpteenth time this year speculation began that Microsoft will now, finally buy Yahoo. What do you think?

Security

Adobe AIR hits 'critical' security turbulence

Ryan Naraine: Buried in today's flurry of feel-good Adobe news is this less flattering nugget: Adobe AIR is vulnerable to several critical vulnerabilities that could expose users to code execution attacks.

IT Management

Outsourcing and the real IT labor shortage

Jason Hiner: The fastest way to raise the hackles of most U.S. IT professionals is to mention offshore outsourcing. However, new evidence shows that the IT offshoring trend is greatly exaggerated.

Enterprise Hardware

Jaquar chases Roadrunner for fastest supercomputer

Cray's XT5 Jaguar supercomputer has narrowly missed displacing IBM's Roadrunner system as the world's fastest supercomputer.

Enterprise Software

Parallels Desktop 4 for Mac or how I lost my socks

Dan Kusnetzky: Parallels demonstrated Windows XP, Windows Vista, Ubuntu Linux, and Mac OS X applications running side by side in separate windows on the same Mac OS X desktop. The performance was outstanding.

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

SuperSpeed USB 3.0 unleashed

Unveiled on Monday by the USB Implementers Forum, the USB 3.0 spec can theoretically support data-transfer speeds of up to 4.8Gbps - 10 times the speed provided by USB 2.0.

Communications

Review: TeleNav Shotgun internet connected personal navigation device

Matthew Miller: The Shotgun takes the tried and true TeleNav navigation software (found on many carrier phones as AT&T Navigator, Sprint Navigation, etc.) and places it on a very nice piece of hardware.

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