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- Microsoft's post-Gates plan
- At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks to Gartner research analysts about filling the gap and sharing the leadership role with top executives after Chairman Bill Gates transitions away from his day-to-day duties at the software maker next year.
- Tags: ERROR: Missing a field., Gartner Inc., Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Management
- Videos 2007-10-11
- Toshiba's tiny and bright TDP-PX10
- At the DigitalLife show in New York, ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind stumbles across a projector that's small enough (less than 3 pounds) to fit in most shoulder bags, yet bright enough (2200 lumens) to work in most lighting situations. But packing all that tech into such a small package...
- Tags: Projector, Toshiba Corp., ERROR: Missing a field.
- Videos 2007-10-04
- Flash is key to Sapotek's free OS
- Using Adobe's Flash, Sapotek is taking a different approach to delivering Web-based productivity. Instead of offering individual apps as discreet "Web-ware" offerings, it delivers an entire desktop operating system--complete with storage and applications--into a browser. Perhaps just as interesting is that all of the built-in ...
- Tags: Operating System, Operating Systems, Software, ERROR: Missing a field.
- Videos 2007-10-04
- New Toshiba notebook weighs less than 1.7 lbs.
- Usually the term "subnotebook" conjures up images of compromise. Subnotebooks are generally too thin to include a drive tray for CD-ROMs and DVDs, and their batteries die before the flight attendant can say, "It's OK to use your personal electronics now." But, Toshiba tells ZDNet executive editor David Berlind, the...
- Tags: ERROR: Missing a field., Notebook, Subnotebook, Toshiba Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Videos 2007-10-03
- Palm CEO Ed Colligan pitches the Centro
- ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind catches up with Palm CEO Ed Colligan at the Digital Life conference in New York City to get the lowdown on Palm's new phone, the Centro. Colligan says it falls somewhere between a basic cell phone and full-blown smart phones like Palm's Treos. This $99...
- Tags: Phone, Palm Inc., Telecom & Utilities, 3G, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, ERROR: Missing a field.
- Videos 2007-10-01
- Nokia shows off new--but pricey--iPhone killers
- At Digital Life in New York City, Nokia finally shipped the new version of its popular N95, the "iPhone killer" with double the memory of its predecessor, 3G compatibility on the GSM platform, and support for assisted GPS. Like the old N95, it comes with a 5-megapixel camera and, unlike...
- Tags: ERROR: Missing a field., Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., 3G, GPS, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Videos 2007-10-01
- Smart-phone curse: Lockups and restarts
- It's bad enough, says ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind, that smart phones are so much like PCs that they sometimes need to be rebooted. But add to that the intolerable time that must pass before a phone call can be made, and you've got one issue smart-phone makers need to...
- Tags: Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Phone, ERROR: Missing a field.
- Videos 2007-09-25
- Modular and green, the PowerPod seeks a home
- CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica visits the first demo model of the PowerPod in an unlikely place--an old coal power plant in the industrial city of Lawrence, Mass. He takes a look at the flexible green home and gets some ideas on how it might be used.
- Tags: News.com, Home, ERROR: Missing a field.
- Videos 2007-09-17
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- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...
- Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Is open source hurt by piracy?
- Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Will industry react to new cell phone cancer scare?
- Will industry react to new cell phone cancer scare?hmm...what are we going to do with microwaves, wireless routers and TV & radio stations that emit in a similar spectrum?...Go in the mountains,or... in a cave?What about Bluetooth?So I hear some people saying to use headsets instead, but if they're Bluetooth,...
- Tags: Federal government, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, industry, cell phone, FCC, Bluetooth, new cell phone cancer, radiation, cell phone cancer, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another
- When they first announced it, I was certain Knol was simply a way for Google steal some of the attention away from Wikia search -- and I'm still sure that's what was actually happening. Google doesn't normally pre-announce applications months in advance. After a long wait, Google finally...
- Tags: Google Inc., Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distribution
- Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distributionSimple? Compared to what?[i]The procedure works like this: a developer will request your iPhone’s unique identifier. The Identifier is 40-character string that can be found in iTunes by clicking on the word "Serial Number" under the Summary tab when your iPhone is connected. You can...
- Tags: Digital media, Apple iPhone, App Store Ad Hoc distribution, App Store Ad Hoc, App Store, Hands-On, Identifier
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
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