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Is Starcraft II bad for your graphics card?
One of the most anticipated games in years, Starcraft II is so hot that it can burn up your graphics card. Literally. The blockbuster has a strange bug that can make your card render the menus...
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Taking the mystique out of private clouds
Is technology indistinguishable from magic? In his latest cartoon, Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder shows the reality behind private clouds:
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The real meaning of the service level agreement
I believe that outsourcing It is almost always wrong - but it has its uses if you want someone else to take the hit for forcing IT management change.
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AOL's Garlinghouse talks 'startarounds,' calls Yahoo Sybil
"The first part of fixing a problem is admitting the problem. At AOL we have a big F-ing problem," says Brad Garlinghouse, president of consumer applications at AOL.
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Jeff Bezos: Put your energy into making great products and not marketing...
Jeff Bezos was on Charlie Rose and spoke about the new Kindle, effective marketing ... and cloud computing too.
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Google search blocked in China? The pain continues
It's blocked! No, it's a glitch! Wait, it's a little bit blocked! More fun for Google in China.
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Can FCoE replace iSCSI?
Can Fiber Channel over Ethernet become your storage networking standard?
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Facebook IPO: Does Zuckerberg really need Wall Street on his back, too?
A report today says that a Facebook is in no rush to go public and that an IPO likely won't come until 2012.
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Solar subsidies evaporating, but big projects still get greenlight
There's an article today on our SmartPlanet sister site that provides a good overview of the current state of rebates and funding programs for solar projects in the United States. The bad news is...
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Mono going mobile with Visual Studio
Mono is going to make embedding easier, so people can bundle Mono with application and devices
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Google tops comparative review of malicious search results
A two-month study by Barracuda Labs, reviewing more than 25,000 trending topics and 5.5 million search results, names Google as the most popular search engine used by malicious attackers relying...
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IncrediBooth is just like going to the boardwalk
IncrediBooth is more fun than I've had with my iPhone camera in a long time. It's an app for the iPhone 4 that turns it into an old school photo booth and well worth the 99 cents.
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OWC to offer eSATA upgrade for new top-of-the-line iMac
Prominent Mac vendor, OtherWorld Computing, said Friday on its blog that the company will offer an eSATA "interface solution" for the 27-inch iMac announced this week by Apple. The details such as...
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Look who's on the Microsoft Azure team now
Celebrated Windows expert Mark Russinovich has joined the Windows Azure team. For the past three years, Technical Fellow Russinovich has been working on Windows.
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CodeWeavers updated with Wine 1.2
CodeWeavers this week updated its eponymous virtualization environment that lets Mac users run Windows programs. The update, Version 9.1, supports the latest release of the Wine Project,...
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Between the Lines
AOL's Garlinghouse talks 'startarounds,' calls Yahoo Sybil
"The first part of fixing a problem is admitting the problem. At AOL we have a big F-ing problem," says Brad Garlinghouse, president of consumer applications at AOL.
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All About Microsoft
Look who's on the Microsoft Azure team now
Celebrated Windows expert Mark Russinovich has joined the Windows Azure team. For the past three years, Technical Fellow Russinovich has been working on Windows.
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Zero Day
Google tops comparative review of malicious search results
A two-month study by Barracuda Labs, reviewing more than 25,000 trending topics and 5.5 million search results, names Google as the most popular search engine used by malicious attackers relying...
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The Apple Core
IncrediBooth is just like going to the boardwalk
IncrediBooth is more fun than I've had with my iPhone camera in a long time. It's an app for the iPhone 4 that turns it into an old school photo booth and well worth the 99 cents.
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Hardware 2.0
Apple now trying to patent App ideas
Apple's latest idea for squeezing more money out of the iPhone cash cow - patenting App ideas.
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Linux and Open Source
Mono going mobile with Visual Studio
Mono is going to make embedding easier, so people can bundle Mono with application and devices
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Googling Google
Google search blocked in China? The pain continues
It's blocked! No, it's a glitch! Wait, it's a little bit blocked! More fun for Google in China.
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
Secret links for Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta
I've been impressed with the Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta, especially with the new Photo Gallery and Movie Maker. But the one thing that's missing from the official download page is an...
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Smartphones and Cell Phones
Will a software update fix GPS and other issues with the Samsung Vibrant?
The Samsung Galaxy S series are hot right now, but many owners of the T-Mobile Vibrant are having some performance issues related to GPS, reception, speed, and battery life. These all look like...
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Tech Broiler
Amazon, Show Me the Kindle Demographics!
Amazon's continued secrecy about device sales and demographics will become an ongoing issue unless the company comes clean about who their core audience really is.
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The Mobile Gadgeteer
First Look: 360 degree panoramas in 20 seconds with your iPhone with 360 Panorama
The folks behind RedLaser have brought no-stitch 360 panorama creation to the iPhone
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The ToyBox
HTC gets official with Android 2.2 roll out in Europe this weekend
HTC will be finally be rolling out Android 2.2 (Froyo) updates this weekend. Well, that is for owners of the HTC Desire in Europe.
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Social Business
Research: Google reaches malware milestone, while 'true' Twitter users increase
A Barracuda Networks study shows that Google is presenting more malware than Bing, Yahoo and Twitter combined, and that less than 30 percent of Twitter's users are fully using the service. What's...
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GreenTech Pastures
Solar subsidies evaporating, but big projects still get greenlight
There's an article today on our SmartPlanet sister site that provides a good overview of the current state of rebates and funding programs for solar projects in the United States. The bad news is...
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Laptops & Desktops
Is Starcraft II bad for your graphics card?
One of the most anticipated games in years, Starcraft II is so hot that it can burn up your graphics card. Literally. The blockbuster has a strange bug that can make your card render the menus...
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Storage Bits
iPad wins the jerk demographic
You're educated, affluent and self-indulgent: the perfect Apple customer. It's young cheapskate Linux snobs who hate the iPad.
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Digital Cameras & Camcorders
Samsung unveils ST80 pocket digital camera with Wi-Fi
Samsung has just introduced the ultra-compact ST80 digital camera, complete with Wi-Fi and DNLA connectivity.
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Home Theater
UltraViolet: DRM for online content handled through the cloud
As you're probably aware, digital rights management (DRM) hasn't exactly worked as smoothly as content creators and copyright holders would like. Probably the most successful DRM solution to date...
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iGeneration
BlackBerry encryption 'too secure': National security vs. consumer privacy
India's intelligence services cannot intercept BlackBerry encrypted data, citing this as a risk to national security. What's more important: national security, or consumer privacy - and why?
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Software as Services
Choosing the right cloud platform
The emergence of a number of self-proclaimed 'open' cloud platforms - the latest is Rackspace's OpenStack initiative - presents any would-be cloud adopter with a confusing plethora of choice....
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Service Oriented
Taking the mystique out of private clouds
Is technology indistinguishable from magic? In his latest cartoon, Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder shows the reality behind private clouds:
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BriefingsDirect
FACE initiative takes aim at improved interoperability and standards among future military avionics platforms
What we are trying to do with FACE now is to develop a computer environment that’s on the aircraft already. As we define new capabilities and new things that we want to put out into the fleet,...
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- Three new Open Group white papers help make for a peaceful leap to cloud computing
- Business trends in global IT markets provide new traction and value for enterprise architecture
- The state of enterprise architecture: Vast promise or lost opportunity?
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Collaboration 2.0
Summer Social & Search Big Financial Deals
It's been a fascinating few days for big money announcements: first Metaweb, the linked data company that is at the heart of the next generation semantic web was pulled into the Google family...
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Dev Connection
Oracle rebrands Java, breaks Eclipse
Earlier this month, Oracle released a new version of Java, 1.6.0_21 (6u21). Unfortunately as Eclipse users quickly discovered, it was incompatible with Eclipse and Eclipse Rich Client Platform...
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A Developer's View
Shake-up at Microsoft: It's about time
Microsoft recently shook-up its Entertainment & Devices division in an attempt to jump start its device efforts and pose better competition to Apple and Google. Here are five suggestions as...
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Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter
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Emerging Tech
Fly corneas prove viable for biomimetic surfaces, i.e. solar cells
Rows of tiny raised blowfly corneas may pave the way to easy manufacturing of bio-mimetic surfaces, surfaces that mimic the properties of biological tissues, according to Penn State researchers.
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Enterprise Web 2.0
Enterprise 2.0 and improved business performance
There's been some useful and interesting discussion in the blogosphere recently about collaborative social tools and their potential to improve business performance. Especially good takes have...
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Tom Foremski: IMHO
Jeff Bezos: Put your energy into making great products and not marketing...
Jeff Bezos was on Charlie Rose and spoke about the new Kindle, effective marketing ... and cloud computing too.
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Virtually Speaking
Device independence and the future of mobility
Dave Buchholz, Technology Evangelist, Intel IT, and I had a interesting romp through the history of systems and how things have changed over the years. It was wonderful to meet a fellow computer...
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Irregular Enterprise
SAP reports healthier Q2 2010
SAP is slowly returning to double digit growth but its Q2 2010 results represent a mixed picture. High growth in the Americas was offset by sluggishness in other territories. Cost control remains...
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IT Project Failures
Top thinkers in project management today
I am honored to be included in a list of top thinkers in project management today created by on-demand project management tools vendor, LiquidPlanner.
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The Web Life
How to find out if your data is in the Facebook torrent file
Someone scraped the publicly-available Facebook directory and hosted it as a torrent file, so anyone with an internet connection could download it. Here's how you can figure out if your...
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Forrester Research
Adobe seizes the day
Adobe's acquisition of Day Software signals that the company has gotten into the content management business, blogs Stephen Powers.
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Social CRM: The Conversation
The Thing About Analysts - And PR/Marketing Folks
I was reading Ray Wang's great post on "The 7 Tenets of Building a Star Analyst Firm" and then Vinnie Mirchandani's  follow up "More Tenets for the Nex Gen Analyst" and it got me to thinking - on...
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Software & Services Safari
Lots of ERP News in this space (for a change)
Finally, some news around the ERP space. Oracle and SAP dominate this morning's stories.
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Lawgarithms
Muddling through privacy and the social Web
Chief privacy officers from Yahoo!, IBM, and Comcast, as well as CDT's public policy guru, weigh in on where things stand with privacy as social network usage becomes ubiquitous.
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The Semantic Web
Siri acquired by Apple; iPhone becomes the Virtual Personal Assistant?
Apple buys Siri, and brings real semantic smarts to Cupertino.
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On Sustainability
Edelman: Tech Tops in Trust (and why you should trust ZDNet bloggers more than your grandmother)
The pre Davos wind up is now well underway. Out of the traps today is the annual Edelman Trust Barometer timed nicely to remind executives on the way to World Economic Forum that, oh yeah,...
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Team Think
How Software Can Turn Your Creativity into Products
A new trend in innovation management (aka ideation)  platforms  that I'm seeing I think will mark  the beginning of the next generation of our industry. With them you'll be able to  help your...
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Managing L'unix
The real meaning of the service level agreement
I believe that outsourcing It is almost always wrong - but it has its uses if you want someone else to take the hit for forcing IT management change.
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ZDNet Education
At $139, does a Kindle finally make sense?
We're finally getting close to a price where maybe, just maybe, a single-purpose e-reader makes some sense for schools. Here's why:
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ZDNet Government
Would American politics be more interesting if we had a Sex Party?
Every so often, I sit down and write a headline that I never, in my wildest imagination, ever expected to write.
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ZDNet Healthcare
EHR changes are more than skin deep
The gains of EHRs have yet to come to my doctor's office, but business change is already here, and we'll see about the rest in time.
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The DocuMentor
How Does Your Direct Marketing Measure Up?
Doc knows a lot of you are interested in document management because it's an important part of your sales and marketing efforts. But sometimes we plug along doing the same thing over and over...
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UberMobile
This Homely FeaturePhone Is Almost As Popular As The iPhone. Really.
The Samsung Intensity may be the Shrek of mobile phones, but it still sells really really well in the U.S. And that has implications for your mobile and m-commerce strategy.
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India IT
Dell's Alienware makes a big splash in Bangalore with gaming cafe
Dell's Alienware seeks to boost its presence in a major market in India: gaming.
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All About Microsoft
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
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The Apple Core
Apple technology keeps gaining respect in the executive suite, with businesses and in the data center. Jason O'Grady and David Morgenstern deliver critical news and penetrating analysis that managers need to succeed.
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Between the Lines
Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.
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BriefingsDirect
Analyst Dana Gardner examines IT news and trends that impact software strategists to provide insights and outcomes on SOA, app dev, SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and mobile convergence.
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Collaboration 2.0
Real world collaboration strategies and tactics for enterprises.
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Dev Connection
Who said computers have to be all work and no play? Software developer and author Ed Burnette shares his unique view of industry trends, technologies, and personalities.
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A Developer's View
At the intersection between technology and economic policy, John Carroll brings years of experience as a software developer to bear on the latest issues affecting the technology industry.
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Digital Cameras & Camcorders
Gadget geeks Janice Chen and Rachel King deliver real-world buying advice of the best digital photography gear to get.
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The DocuMentor
Doc is on a mission to help rid your organization of every last trace of document management ignorance and make sure that the future of the digital office finds a home in your business.
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
Get outspoken insights and expert advice on Windows, Office, and other Microsoft products from a source who knows these technologies inside and out.
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Emerging Tech
Emerging trends in technology and new developments in science will affect the way we live. Chris Jablonski selects and analyzes news about our future that you'll almost never find anywhere else.
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Enterprise Web 2.0
Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.
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Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter
David Chernicoff looks at technologies that impact data center users and operators, including server consolidation and virtualization, green IT, and the latest hardware advances.
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Forrester Research
The View From Forrester provides best practices and analysis of burning issues and trends impacting Information & Knowledge Management and Infrastructure & Operations professionals.
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Googling Google
Garett Rogers and Christopher Dawson explore the mystery behind the hottest and fastest growing tech company in the world. Google spoilers inside.
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GreenTech Pastures
As the global warming debate rages, Heather Clancy chronicles alternative energy start-ups, green data center projects and other high-tech and political developments shaping the green technology movement.
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Hardware 2.0
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sifts through the marketing hyperbole and casts his critical eye over the latest technological innovations to find out which products make the grade and which don't.
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Home Theater
Sean Portnoy covers HDTVs, Blu-ray, home theater equipment, and anything else that turns the living room into your media center.
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iGeneration
British student Zack Whittaker talks about (and to) the next generation of IT users.
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India IT
Manan Kakkar surveys the technology market in India.
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Irregular Enterprise
Dennis Howlett analyzing the issues faced by senior business practitioners who work with enterprise software.
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IT Project Failures
Michael Krigsman is passionate about reporting, analyzing, and reducing IT failures.
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Laptops & Desktops
John Morris and Sean Portnoy deliver straight talk about notebook and desktop computers.
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Lawgarithms
Issue-spotting the Live Web, attorney Denise Howell muses about cutting edge technology-related legal issues.
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Linux and Open Source
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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Managing L'unix
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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The Mobile Gadgeteer
Professionals are doing more today on the go than ever before. Matthew Miller and Joel Evans provide you with news, commentary and in-depth reviews of the latest in mobile gadgetry running Windows Mobile, S60, Palm, BlackBerry, and more.
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On Sustainability
James Farrar focuses on the business balance between financial performance and social-environmental impact.
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The Semantic Web
Paul Miller offers insight and analysis on the Semantic Web, dissecting the news and showing why it matters to the wider business world.
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Service Oriented
SOA promises many "-ilities": greater agility, flexibility, and reusability. Joe McKendrick explores the challenges and opportunities with SOA, and how to capitalize on this new computing philosophy.
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Smartphones and Cell Phones
Professionals are doing more today on the go than ever before. Matthew Miller provides you with news, commentary and in-depth reviews of the latest in mobile gadgetry running Windows Mobile, S60, Palm, BlackBerry, and more.
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Social Business
Jennifer Leggio delivers news on social media tools and trends and deep dives into business strategies.
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Social CRM: The Conversation
Paul Greenberg focuses on not only what CRM is but where its going in this blog on CRM strategy, technology, stories, companies and personalities.
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Software & Services Safari
Many writers explore just one tech sector. Brian looks at the entire tech ecosystem to better understand the often conflicted relationships between software vendors, integrators, outsourcers and more.
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Software as Services
In the best-informed blog on software-as-a-service and on-demand business applications, Phil Wainewright cuts through the vendor spin, analyzes the trends to watch and adds his thought-provoking insights.
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Storage Bits
Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.
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Team Think
David Greenfield delivers practical information about tools and technologies that enable organizational teams to work more effectively with one another.
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Tech Broiler
Irreverent, unapologetically arrogant and uncensored, IT Professional Services industry veteran Jason Perlow muses on a cornucopia of topics on all matters of Information Technology.
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Tom Foremski: IMHO
Former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski writes about Silicon Valley business trends and the intersection of technology and media.
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The ToyBox
The latest gadgets and gear -- because even busy business professionals need their playtime.
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UberMobile
Eric Lai tracks the latest news and trends in enterprise mobility.
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Virtually Speaking
Virtualization is a mix of technologies that is changing how datacenters use standard systems. Dan Kusnetzky examines this hotly competitive market and weighs the strengths and weaknesses of each supplier.
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The Web Life
Capturing the atmosphere of the Silicon Valley tech experience.
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ZDNet Education
News and analysis on IT and computing in the education sector.
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ZDNet Government
News and analysis on IT and enterprise computing in city, state & federal government.
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ZDNet Healthcare
Covering all areas of medical technology, and the public policies under which they're paid for. From networked systems and electronic medical records to gadgets, breakthroughs, and research.
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Zero Day
Staying on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks.
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