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News to know: Leopard; Opera Mini; iPhone sightings

Notable headlines:Photos right: Fourteen views of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs three Safari for Windows holes.Ed Bott: Day 3 with a new Dell and Vista.Larry Dignan: Opera Mini beta advances mobile Web browsing; Verizon Wireless blocks it at the door.Satellite companies partner with Clearwire.Ryan Naraine: There's a...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-06-15

News to know: Google buys PeakStream; VMware as a service; Firefox flaws

Notable headlines:Google acquires programming toolmaker PeakStream. The Register: Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy.Dan Farber: VMware offers virtualization as a service.Ryan Naraine: Mozilla downplays Zalewski's Firefox flaws. Microsoft security guru: Get fuzzing. ID theft allegations haunt founder of ID theft fraud protection service. Google: Microsoft IIS ‘twice as often' serving...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-06

News to know: Google Gears; Intel V8; Firefox patch; Bill and Steve

Notable headlines:David Berlind: Podcast: ‘Google Gears' vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps. Ed Burnette and Marc Orchant.Google kicks offline Web apps into gear. Ryan Stewart:What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo . O'Reilly Radar: Google releases open source toolkit for offline web apps....

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Blog posts 2007-05-31

News to know: Milan video, gallery; ColdFusion; Apple's flaw count

Notable headlines:Ryan Stewart: New version of ColdFusion aimed at .NET, Ajax crowd.Ryan Naraine: Apple flaw count for 2007: 111 and counting. Larry Dignan: The hype cycle behind Steve and Bill's dueling banjo show. How the 'Milan' table PC was born. Microsoft hopes 'Milan' table PC has magic touch. Video: Microsoft unveils touch...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-30

News to know: Ubuntu Server; WinHEC; Windows Home Server; Linus Torvalds

Notable headlines:Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: LAMP On Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Server Edition. Gallery right. Will Dell stuff Ubuntu PCs full of craplets?Mary Jo Foley: At WinHEC the future is off limits for Microsoft. Microsoft attempts to rally more hardware vendors around Rally.Ed Bott: On the road with Vista.InformationWeek: Linus Torvalds Responds...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-16

Additional Resources

Google feeling the pinch? [video]

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with senior editor Sam Diaz about Google's financial future according to one analyst. Diaz also discusses what the outlook may mean for the company's employees and its competitors. [video=253570] Also see: Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict...

Tags: Google Inc., Financial, Analyst, Video, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives

Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...

Tags: Mr., Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Doh! HP has some "green" data center news, too

Sometimes, I SWEAR that companies put out green IT-ish press releases on the same day just to divert attention from their rivals. So, here's the thing, after writing about Dell's latest data center proclamations and new optimization services this morning, I would be remiss not to point to some of...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Google feeling the pinch?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with senior editor Sam Diaz about Google's financial future according to one analyst. Diaz also discusses what the outlook may mean for the company's employees and its competitors.

Tags: Google Inc., Financial, Financial Accounting, Google, layoff, revenue, finance, search, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz

Videos 2008-12-02

In other Nokia news today...

All the buzz about Nokia today may have been about the launch of the N97, the company's new high-end smartphone. But Nokia did have other news: it has completed its acquisition of Symbian, maker of the mobile operating system on many cell phones. Symbian employees will become Nokia employees on...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Smart Phones, Open Source, Operating Systems, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy

It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....

Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Oh, and BTW: 'Intellectually Bankrupt' FCC Chief To Be Around Until Mid-2009

There's little love lost between the nation's largest cable operator, Comcast, and the country's top industry watchdog, Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin During his tenure, Martin has pushed repeatedly to usher in...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Chairman, Federal Government, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-02

2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?

Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. ...

Tags: Cable Television, Broadcasting, Satellite, Brodsky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Netbooks dominate Cyber Monday sales

Netbooks dominated the Computers & PC hardware bestsellers list on Amazon this Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the U.S. Netbooks FTW! Chalk it up to a small form factor (7-10 in., about 3 lbs.) and an even smaller...

Tags: Monitor, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sales, LCD, MSI, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-02

iPhone clouds true Smartphone snapshot

Can Apple, specifically its iPhone, save an entire industry? The iPhone - now ranked the second most popular smartphone - saw strong enough adoption in the quarter ending Sept. 30 to mask the sluggishness of the overall smartphone market this past summer, according to a report by...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Why Amazon needs Kindle 2.0

Kindle-mania has arrived this holiday season -- but will it stay for good? In a recent article on Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg writes that Amazon's next e-reader won't be a game-changer, but it will keep killing the competition -- and that's why Amazon needn't upgrade its fabled gadget....

Tags: Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle-mania, Greenberg, Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Sage to step into the on-demand ring

News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...

Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation

Apple recently sent a "cease and desist" email to bluwiki demanding the removal of postings by users who are trying to figure out how to write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone and iPod touch. According to the EFF: Apple doesn't...

Tags: Apple iPod, DMCA, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Google Calendar now supports iCal

In a blog post by Engineering Director David Besbris Google announced its support for the CalDAV protocol. This means that you can now use iCal with Google Calendar, allowing you to work offline, sync almost instantly, respond to invitations from others and see the free/busy data of...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Calendar, Productivity, Blogging, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict

Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google's revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Board, Trip Chowdhry, Contacts, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02