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• Apple hits Psystar with DMCA charges

  Court papers reveal that the day before Thanksgiving Apple added new charges to the five-month old federal lawsuit against mac-clone maker Psystar. The new charges claim that Psystar, along with ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Hardware, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Psystar, Operating Systems, Apple Inc., Software, Defendant, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Dec 01, 2008 5:57 PM PST

• Cyber Monday traffic better than last year

  If Web traffic translates into online sales, this year's holiday season is gearing up to much better than last year's - contrary to the doom-and-gloom forecasts for the holiday season. ...

  Tags: Sales, Sales Strategy, Sam Diaz, Sales Force Management

  Dec 01, 2008 5:46 PM PST

• With Vista SP2, Microsoft is back on track

  Reliable reports suggest that Microsoft plans to release Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to manufacturing in April 2009, roughly a year after it delivered SP1. Some observers are inferring from ...

  Tags: Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott, Software, Service Pack 2

  Dec 01, 2008 5:05 PM PST

• Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?

  You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Handhelds, Virus, Hardware, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, Productivity, Computer, Legend, Online Communications

  Dec 01, 2008 4:34 PM PST

• Google outlines plan for extensions in Chrome

  One of the features that is noticeably missing from the current version of Google Chrome is what Firefox calls "Add-ons". These programs are written by developers looking to add functionality ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Google Chrome, Garett Rogers, Web Browser, Internet, Mozilla Firefox, Extension, Google Inc.

  Dec 01, 2008 4:14 PM PST

• Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?

  Who doesn't hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you're willing to pay for a really good one? That's the question ...

  Tags: Voice Channel, Phone, Voice, Codec, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield

  Dec 01, 2008 4:05 PM PST

• What a difference one atom makes

  A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting ...

  Tags: Polymer, University Of California At Los Angeles, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller, Solar Cell

  Dec 01, 2008 3:34 PM PST

• IT expert executed in Iran

  Following Pakistan's recently introduced "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" according to which potential cyberterrorists would face the death penalty, a neighboring country, Iran, has recently executed an IT expert ...

  Tags: Information Technology, Dancho Danchev, Government, Online Communications, Equipment, E-mail, Real Estate, Iran, Productivity, Business Operations

  Dec 01, 2008 3:23 PM PST

• Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus

  One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses malware but Macs are automatically protected.  As PC "ah-choos" his ...

  Tags: Ryan Naraine, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Antivirus, Virus, Apple Inc., Hardware, Viruses And Worms, Malware, Security, Desktops

  Dec 01, 2008 3:09 PM PST

• Palm: On track to become a historical footnote

  Remember when Palm - maker of the Pilot and Tungsten PDAs and later the Treo smartphone - was the dominant player in the handheld device business? Today, it's a completely ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Hardware, Sam Diaz, Consumer Electronics, Smart Phones

  Dec 01, 2008 2:38 PM PST

• Using TREES to save the forest

  Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, ...

  Tags: Power Consumption, Management, Tools & Techniques, Heather Clancy, Real Estate, Software, TREES, Business Operations

  Dec 01, 2008 2:36 PM PST

• The most slacking-est time of the year

  Is this what your office looks like from November to January?Statistically speaking, you're not doing any work today -- or so poll after poll out this time of year about ...

  Tags: Hour, Aisle, Human Resources, Marketing Research, Workforce Management, Marketing, Workplace, Deb Perelman, Recruitment & Selection

  Dec 01, 2008 2:03 PM PST

• Interview: HP’s Tim Hall on heightening roles of governance in SOA, cloud and managing dynamic business boundaries

  SOA governance heightens the business benefits of services, increases IT efficiency returns, and reduces the risk that complexity could undermine the services lifecycle in large organizations. Services governance also sets ...

  Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Information Technology, Tool, Software, Dana Gardner, SOA, Enterprise Software

  Dec 01, 2008 1:38 PM PST

• Apple, Mozilla gain ground on Microsoft for Web traffic

  When it comes to surfing the Web, a growing number of people used Macs, instead of a Windows computer, as well as browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Web, Microsoft Corp., NetApplications, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Internet, Sam Diaz, Mozilla Corp.

  Dec 01, 2008 12:56 PM PST

• Would you lie to get your project funded?

  83% of cost/benefit analysis supporting IT proposals is a fiction I was reviewing an academic manuscript, Managing the Realization of Business Benefits from IT Investments (published in (MIS Quarterly Executive, ...

  Tags: Management, Brian Sommer, Information Technology, Strategy, Benefit

  Dec 01, 2008 12:32 PM PST

• Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Feature phones

  I've now given you a Holiday Guide for smartphones and free cellphones so this Guide presents the best of the devices that are commonly called feature phones. With the power ...

  Tags: Bluetooth 1.2 Radio, Peripherals, Samsung Instinct, Telecom & Utilities, LG Voyager, QWERTY, Device, ZN4, AT&T Corp., microSD Card

  Dec 01, 2008 11:54 AM PST

• The Paparazzi Social Media Problem

  Jevon McDonald, someone whose opinions I rate highly, has posted a stellar piece on 'The uncertain future of Blogging' today. The idea of user-generated content was once almost exclusively owned ...

  Tags: Blog, Oliver Marks, Collaboration, Internet, Blogging, Jevon

  Dec 01, 2008 11:45 AM PST

• See You in the Cloud

  This post marks the end of my relationship with ZDNet -- though not the end of my blogging career by a long shot. I'll still be blogging -- can't seem ...

  Tags: Blog, Joshua Greenbaum, Internet, Blogging

  Dec 01, 2008 11:22 AM PST

• Robert Scoble: 'No bigger week for Nokia' than this one

  Robert Scoble of Scobleizer fame is in Barcelona, Spain for Nokia World, a week where Nokia talks to its top customers, and according to him, there is no bigger week ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Handhelds, GPS, Robert Scoble, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Wi-Fi, Nokia Corp., Bluetooth

  Dec 01, 2008 11:05 AM PST

• Study: Cell phones distract drivers more than passengers do

  According to a new study, it's more distracting to have Paris Hilton's Sidekick in the car than it is to have Paris herself. Sorry, Paris. Cell phones distract car drivers ...

  Tags: Andrew Nusca, Phone, Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Driver, Car

  Dec 01, 2008 10:47 AM PST

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