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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.

News to know: Microsoft; Psystar; Mozilla; Storm; Office 2.0

Between the Lines by Larry Dignan

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie ‘Morro’ Mary Jo Foley:...

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Microsoft kills Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

Microsoft is discontinuing its paid Windows Live OneCare subscription security service. Microsoft is touting a new, free security service, codenamed "Morro," and due in the second half of 2009, as...

Mary-Jo Foley

Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0

Zero Day by Dancho Danchev

Known as Kardphisher and "in the wild" since April, 2007, last week the malware author of this trojan horse mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card...

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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

Apple dodges antitrust bullet

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

A California judge has granted Apple's motion to dismiss Psystar's counterclaims that the company violated antitrust laws by blocking third-parties from selling Mac OS-based systems.

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

Open source journalism goes local

Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn

The right way to evaluate an open source enterprise is through the business model. The output is a byproduct.

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

Texas gov. intercedes in failing IBM project

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

Texas Governor, Rick Perry, ordered state agencies to stop transferring data to IBM to prevent data loss on a failing project. Here's what's going on with this failure-in-progress.

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

More tidbits about electronics recycling and e-waste

GreenTech Pastures by Heather Clancy

Goodness, they did it. As debate continues over nasty e-recycling behavior and the role of the government, businesses and the average U.S. citizen in fixing the situation, Massachusetts asset disposition...

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 2

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

Welcome to day 2 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I'll be blogging about the differences between Android and iPhone development....

Ed Burnette

Firefly satellite will study thunderstorms

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

The Firefly mission is the second project under the new U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CubeSat program. The goal of this program is to provide a low cost access to...

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

Zune 3.1 firmware gives you 3 new games, price drops for flash Zunes too

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

It has been 2 months since the major Zune 3.0 update and couple of new devices were released. Today Microsoft released the Zune 3.1 update that adds 3 new games...

Matthew Miller

Qualcomm's Kayak "PC alternative" pictured

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

Here's a picture of Kayak, the "PC alternative" for emerging markets that Qualcomm announced yesterday. It looks pretty much the way the company described it: sort of a cross...

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

Lessons from Twitterank launch

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

The Twitterank experience this week is a sobering example of how equilibrium around an online application can quickly change. Twitter is a powerful tool used by a huge number...

Oliver Marks

LG INCITE Windows Mobile 6.1 device now available from AT&T

Smartphones and Cell Phones by Matthew Miller

Wow, I just can't keep up with AT&T's high end mobile phone releases. Today, AT&T and LG announced the availability today of the LG INCITE Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device....

Matthew Miller

Parallels Desktop 4 for Mac or how I lost my socks

Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky

Some demonstrations seem fated to be postponed time and again before the stars align and I'm finally able to sit back and enjoy the show some supplier wants to present....

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

Asus launches 'world's fastest' smartphone

The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca

Yes, you read correctly: Asus has unveiled its latest smartphone, which, it claims is the "fastest business PDA phone in the world." Them's big words coming from a mobile underdog....

Josh Taylor and Andrew Nusca

Fujifilm resurrects the "Polaroid" and announces Instax 200 instant film camera

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

For those who were sad to see Polaroid discontinue its instant film production, you don't have to wait for the Tomy Xiao to make it to the U.S. or make...

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

Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.

Home Theater by Sean Portnoy

After Best Buy's Black Friday ad leaked online the other day, bargain hunters were waiting for someone at Circuit City to slip up and its ad to reach the Internet,...

Sean Portnoy

Office 2.0: a digital revolution for students worldwide

iGeneration by Zack Whittaker

With hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people using Google Apps and Zoho, two of the main cloud office suites on the web, Microsoft once again sees an opportunity...

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

Forrester, SaaS and market uptake in IT management

Software & Services Safari by Brian Sommer

Competition in the Changing IT Management Space Yesterday I discussed CA’s move into SaaS-based IT Management. Today, a Forrester Research shared with me a new report their firm also released...

Brian Sommer

Should big brands fear or revere the mommybloggers?

Feeds by Jennifer Leggio

In the case of Motrin, what the mommybloggers have done is taken the powerful army of business consultants it had finally branded itself as, and turned itself into a targeted...

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

Unemployed? Five reasons to build your resume with FOSS contributions

Community, Incorporated by Joe Brockmeier

It looks like we've gone from speculating whether we're headed into recession depression, to speculating just what that depression is going to look like. Yihong Ding, over on the Thinking...

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

Is the 'Green' in Green IT dead?

Forrester Research by Doug Washburn

In a number of recent client interactions with both enterprise IT end users and vendors, the question of “Is the ‘green’ in Green IT dead?” has come up. Primarily driven...

The View from Forrester Research

More OLPC Give One Considerations

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

It's the second day of sales for the OLPC Give One Get One program on Amazon; the site is still up and still claiming next day delivery is available (anyone...

Christopher Dawson

Members of right-wing UK party exposed

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

There's turmoil at the right-wing British National Party today after personal information on 10,000 members was published on the Web, The Times reports. Names, addresses, telephone numbers and professions...

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

How medical device makers can improve U.S. health care

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

Up to date equipment is key to productivity in any business and it's clear that the device industry's policies are holding down that productivity here.

Dana Blankenhorn