Product Review Blogs
Mac clone beats real Macs in benchmarks
Jason D. O'Grady: In short, the Psystar pretty much trounces the closest price Mac available from Apple--the Mac mini--in both overall results and the CPU test.
Security
Microsoft plugs critical Office leaks
Larry Dignan: It's Patch Tuesday and Microsoft doesn't disappoint with six patches delivered including four critical ones for vulnerabilities in Office and Windows XP.
Enterprise Hardware
6 Gbit drives are coming
Robin Harris: Is this just a gamer's heaven? But it makes for great bragging rights. 6 Gbit drives are about 5-10x faster than a drive can deliver data from the heads.
Communications
Windows 7 is calling
Mary Jo Foley: Improved collaboration and connectivity between Windows PCs and cell phones is going to get a major shot in the arm with Windows 7, according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
- Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta and earns a spot as my right soft key shortcut
- Mobile software Monday: HanDBase 4.0 and Nokia Podcasting
- MobileTechRoundup show #133, REDFLY and Nokia N82 arrive, IdeaPad U110 is rocking
- RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million development fund
- Mowser purchased by dotMobi; is there a need for a .mobi domain?
Companies
Can Hurd run EDS better?
Larry Dignan: CEO Mark Hurd said he plans to use a familiar play book to integrate HP's latest acquistion, Electronic Data Systems: Leverage scale, squeeze costs and underpromise and overdeliver.
Operating Systems
Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops
John Morris: Details of Microsoft's recently announced plan to extend the life of Windows XP for ultra low-cost PCs are trickling out.
Enterprise Software
SOA market passes $2 billion mark
Joe McKendrick: Research and Markets has just issued its latest assessment of the SOA market, and estimates the worldwide SOA market will grow from an estimated $2 billion in 2007 to more than $9 million by 2014.
Web Technology
Zoho's Googley login raises questions
Dennis Howlett: This morning's announcement that Zoho Writer now supports login via Google and Yahoo! ID's is not of itself a big deal. Or is it?
IT Management
Business PCs are going nowhere fast
Paul Murphy: The business PC keeps getting cheaper to buy but more expensive to own, and it keeps getting faster, fatter, and more complicated too--but what does it actually do today that its predecessors could not?
General News
Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at WWDC
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Steve Jobs will kick off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference with a Monday morning keynote speech on June 9. Will this be when the new iPhone will be finally revealed to the most rabid of Apple fans?
Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?
Between the Lines by Larry Dignan
Comcast has acquired Plaxo in a move that aims to make the cable giant's interactive portfolio more social and potentially bring a little Web 2.0 to your set-top box. Financial...
First public release of Silverlight for Linux is out
All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley
The first public release of Moonlight -- the Silverlight on Linux project from open-source leader Miguel de Icaza and his band of coders -- is out.
Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest
Zero Day by Nathan McFeters
According to good friend Robert McMillan of IDG News, Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, which he will release on May 22 at...
WWDC08: Tickets sold out
The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady
According to Macworld Apple today confirmed that its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), held 9-13 June 2008 in San Francisco, has sold out for the first time in the history of...
Linux's biggest victory so far - Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards
Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
In what I think is the biggest victory for Linux so far, DeviceVM's Splashtop Linux desktop will ship across the entire P5Q range of motherboards, with more to follow by...
Google about to launch Flash API for Maps
Googling Google by Garett Rogers
Google just published a page detailing how Flash developers can now use the Google Maps ActionScript API. Unfortunately, as of right now all the samples still don't work, but based...
Google losing cellphone battle?
Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn
These alliance games are not Google's forte. With all the things it does so well, is the alliance game going to be its undoing?
UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis
IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman
The UK Identity & Passport Service (IPS) has released an excellent post-implementation assessment report describing lessons learned from five key 2007 projects. In an unusually transparent move for any government...
Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move
Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett
In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual...
Enterprise 2.0 industry matures as businesses grapple with its potential
Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe
Some of the big IT news over the weekend was the announcement that Forrester predicts that the Enterprise 2.0 space will be a $4.6 billion industry within 5 years. ZDNet's...
Workday: a tipping point?
Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett
Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests...
Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.
GreenTech Pastures by Harry Fuller
The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based...
The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
Microsoft Report by Ed Bott
The great advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. That's also its biggest problem, as all those choices offer a correspondingly large chance of encountering...
6 Gbit drives coming
Storage Bits by Robin Harris
Chip vendor PMC-Sierra and Seagate announced that they've . . . achieved interoperability between PMC-Sierra’s end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset and Seagate’s early development 6Gb/s SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). This...
Putting Workday on SAP's radar
Software as services by Phil Wainewright
I wonder how SAP feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a 200,000-seat deal at contract manufacturer Flextronics. Contrary to reports, it's not the biggest SaaS deal ever,...
Poll: No Microhoo for you: Good or bad?
Dev Connection by Ed Burnette
Over the weekend, Microsoft announced that it was ending its bid to buy Yahoo!. The proposed deal, and its ultimate demise, was the subject of speculation for weeks. Now that...
Using satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico
Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is using satellite imagery to peer into the ancient Mexican past. Bill Middleton, an archeologist, is teaming up...
Latest Flock Beta delivers Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail support
The Social Web by Steve O'Hear
Having launched in late 2005 amidst a tsunami of web 2.0 hype, it was always going to be difficult for social web browser Flock to keep up with expectations. But...
Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta and earns a spot as my right soft key shortcut
The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller
It was only a month ago that I mentioned the release of Opera Mini 4.1 beta and today I received the announcement that the full release of Opera Mini 4.1...
Dell Inspiron desktop now $300
Laptops & Desktops by John Morris
Dell has cut the price of its budget Inspiron 530 by $140. The $300 configuration includes a 2.0GHz Pentium E2180 dual-core processor, 1GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Intel...
New version of Windows Presentation Foundation released
The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart
Microsoft released a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation, their next generation windows application UI framework. The new version will ship as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack...
Business PCs are going nowhere fast
Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy
What can a business achieve with the desktop PC today that couldn't be done with technology from the mid 1980s?
Cloud computing
Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky
I recently read the post, When Is the Right Time to Launch Your Own Cloud? and thought Alistair Croll was on to something. We’re all hearing quite a bit of...
SOA market passes $2 billion mark, whatever that means
Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick
What, exactly, is the 'SOA market'?
HP partners with Desktone to advance virtualized desktops as a service
BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner
The Desktone partner program is aimed at service providers already in the hosting or outsourcing business and who want to leverage existing data center assets. Desktone said that partners who...
Rumors: Canon to release sibling dSLR to Rebel XSi?
The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca
We're back on the digital camera beat this morning, as news is ruminating 'round the interwebs that Canon may be preparing a younger, potentially cheaper sibling to its popular EOS...
Olympus announces new E-520 midrange DSLR update
Digital Cameras by Janice Chen
Olympus has finally announced the previously leaked E-520, an update to its well-regarded E-510. Like the entry-level E-420, the E-510 is really a minor update to its predecessor.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 adds support for WPA2
SOHO Networking by Rik Fairlie
If you’re running Windows XP and haven’t yet installed Service Pack 3, Microsoft has included a few incentives that might interest networkers. First, XP Service Pack 3 provides support for...
After a slow start, quad-core is catching on
The Core Truth by John Morris
This week AMD is expected to announce that it has sold more than 1 million quad-core processors, according to the site TGDaily. That sounds about right since the company previously...
Data Portability: Social Infrastructure still very much wanting
Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe
In a penetrating analysis of the Facebook developers forum, 20bits shows that the participation of programmers in the discussion about the Facebook platform is rapidly dwindling, which suggests the platform...
Greetings from Lesotho
John Carroll by John Carroll
It's amazing how dependent we become on technology. Internet access and a working mobile phone are something that most westerners now take for granted. When they are gone, however, you...
Is Enterprise Software Recession-Proof?
Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum
Amidst the PR blitz and the blizzard of 1:1 meetings that constitute the foreground experience of SAP's Sapphire user conference this week (see Larry's coverage here, and Dennis' coverage here),...
Google grabs for billions in pharma gold...
IMHO by Tom Foremski
Google has asked all hacks to assemble at the Googleplex Monday 19th to hear about the state of search and also Google Health. That sounds like hearing about the health...
HP CSR Report: A Triumph for Transparency (but back slides on blogging)
On Sustainability by James Farrar
Ground breaking stuff in HPs latest CSR report released last week - HP becomes the first in its sector to publish details of the major players in its supply chain....
A short, pointed list of 'wonderful policies'
Lawgarithms by Denise Howell
In putting together a list of what I consider to be relatively clueful site policies, terms, and guidelines, I just stumbled on BoingBoing's List of Wonderful Policies. And it is....
Average US time spent in April 2008
IT Facts by NB
Rank Name Domain Apr 2008 Apr 2007 Growth, YTY 1 Myspace www.myspace.com 29m54s 30m40s -3% 2 Facebook www.facebook.com 20m52s 13m19s 57% 3 myYearbook www.myyearbook.com 32m54s 21m46s 51% 4 Bebo...
Dialcom: Web Conferencing that Works
Team Think by Dave Greenfield
I’ve complained about all of the things wrong with the way folk use Web conferencing. Now let me tell you about a web conference that went off well. A few...
Semantics add value to new travel site as UpTake emerges from private beta
The Semantic Web by Paul Miller
Palo Alto-based travel meta-search site UpTake (formerly Kango) entered a new phase this morning, emerging from a private beta programme that began in December to give a clear indication of...
UC Law bans classroom web access
Education IT by Christopher Dawson
I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or...
Britain releases its X-Files
ZDNet Government by Richard Koman
The truth may be out there, but so far it's not in the government files. The British government posted the first batch of its X-Files to a website today in...
The death gap
Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn
America is becoming two societies, one wealthy and aging, one young and dieing. There is a yawning communication gap between these societies, between the Hobbesian life of the uneducated --...
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Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest
According to good friend Robert McMillan of IDG News, Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, which he will release on May 22 at ...
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UC Law bans classroom web access
I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or ...
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What will a classroom look like in 10 years?
I went to a strategic planning action committee meeting tonight. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? Although not sexy, it is important as we look at concrete ways to implement the ...
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Britain releases its X-Files
The truth may be out there, but so far it's not in the government files. The British government posted the first batch of its X-Files to a website today in ...
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City walks away from $17m network
Who wants a free Wi-Fi network? Not Philadelphia. After Earthlink pulled out of Philly Wireless Tuesday, the city wants no part of the network. Apparently Earthlink had been negotiating with ...
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Spam king, phishing buddy hit for $200m
Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their ...
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Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?
Comcast has acquired Plaxo in a move that aims to make the cable giant's interactive portfolio more social and potentially bring a little Web 2.0 to your set-top box. Financial ...
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Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move
In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual ...
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WWDC08: Tickets sold out
According to Macworld Apple today confirmed that its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), held 9-13 June 2008 in San Francisco, has sold out for the first time in the history of ...
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Icahn reportedly preps his board slate for Yahoo
That Yahoo proxy war looks like it's on, but with a new cast of characters. According to Reuters, billionaire investor Carl Icahn will move ahead with an alternate slate of ...
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EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS
On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about HP's purchase of EDS, Google's Friend Connect and the latest happenings in SaaS. First up, HP's big purchase of ...
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Workday: a tipping point?
Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests ...
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Putting Workday on SAP's radar
Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing ...
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Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!
Pursuing a career in Information Technology comes with certain responsibilities and baggage -- among these are having to act as a personal, unpaid member of the Geek Squad whenever a ...
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The death gap
The death gap, the likelihood of dieing young based solely on your economic and social class, is big and growing in the U.S. An analysis of statistics from the Clinton ...
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Linux's biggest victory so far - Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards
In what I think is the biggest victory for Linux so far, DeviceVM's Splashtop Linux desktop will ship across the entire P5Q range of motherboards, with more to follow by ...
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REST: Reducing Effort in Script-based Testing
The (narrow but very important) problem: Test scripts used for version 1.0 of an application will probably break when applied to version 2.0 of that application. Testers try to edit ...
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Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.
The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their ...
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OK, Dell. Maybe your tech's greener, but what about green services?
Great timing on Dell's part. Wait until arch-rival (or at least one of them) Hewlett-Packard is busy chatting up the press about a minor (ha!) services acquisition, and then WAY ...
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First public release of Silverlight for Linux is out
The first public release of Moonlight -- the Silverlight on Linux project from open-source leader Miguel de Icaza and his band of coders -- is out. De Icaza, Novell Vice ...
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All About Microsoft
Mary Jo Foley
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.
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Between the Lines
Larry Dignan with Jason Perlow
Larry Dignan 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
Dana Gardner
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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Dev Connection
Ed Burnette
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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Digital Cameras
Janice Chen
Gadget geek Janice Chen delivers real-world buying advice of the best gear to get.
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
Ed Bott
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
Roland Piquepaille
Emerging trends in technology and new developments in science will affect the way we live. Roland Piquepaille selects and analyzes news about our future that you'll almost never find anywhere else.
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Enterprise Alley
Dennis Howlett
Showcasing the new breed of startup-style vendors who are solving old problems in a fresh way or offering a glimpse into the future of enterprise applications.
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Enterprise Anti-matter
Joshua Greenbaum
Software analyst Josh Greenbaum's opinions on enterprise software have annoyed enough vendors that he now checks under the hood of his PC every morning before he boots up.
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Enterprise Web 2.0
Dion Hinchcliffe
Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.
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Googling Google
Garett Rogers
Garett Rogers explores the mystery behind the hottest and fastest growing tech company in the world.Google spoilers inside.
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GreenTech Pastures
Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy
As the global warming debate rages, Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy chronicle 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
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sieves 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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Irregular Enterprise
Dennis Howlett
Dennis Howlett analyzing the issues faced by senior business practitioners who work with enterprise software.
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IT Facts
Alex Moskalyuk
Your daily research synopsis is the top resource for business and technology statistics that inform, enlighten and entertain.
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IT Project Failures
Michael Krigsman
Michael Krigsman is passionate about reporting, analyzing, and reducing IT failures.
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John Carroll
John Carroll
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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Laptops & Desktops
John Morris
John Morris delivers straight talk about notebook and desktop computers.
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Lawgarithms
Denise Howell
Issue-spotting the Live Web, attorney Denise Howell muses about cutting edge technology-related legal issues.
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Linux and Open Source
Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney
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
Paul Murphy
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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On Sustainability
James Farrar
James Farrar focuses on the business balance between financial performance and social-environmental impact.
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Rational Rants
Mitch Ratcliffe
"Mitch Ratcliffe blogs about the constantly changing boundary between media and life, the businesses that live on that border, and the meaning of all this change to society and the economy.
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Service Oriented
Joe McKendrick
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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Software as Services
Phil Wainewright
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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SOHO Networking
Rik Fairlie
Get the latest news and expert views on new wireless networking products and services, plus tips on how to optimize your SOHO network.
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Storage Bits
Robin Harris
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
David Greenfield delivers practical information about tools and technologies that enable organizational teams to work more effectively with one another.
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The Apple Core
Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern
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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The Core Truth
John Morris
John Morris delivers straight talk about semiconductors.
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The Mobile Gadgeteer
Matthew Miller
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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The Semantic Web
Paul Miller
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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The Social Web
Steve O'Hear
From Facebook to MySpace, YouTube to Second Life, social software is reshaping the world we live in. Steve O\'Hear provides daily news and analysis of the emerging social web.
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The ToyBox
Josh Taylor
The latest gadgets and gear -- because even busy business professionals need their playtime.
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The Universal Desktop
Ryan Stewart
The technology and business implications of the next generation of software, rich Internet applications.
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Tom Foremski: IMHO
Tom Foremski
Former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski writes about Silicon Valley business trends and the intersection of technology and media.
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Virtually Speaking
Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney
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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ZDNet Education
Christopher Dawson
News and analysis on IT and computing in the education sector.
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ZDNet Government
Richard Koman
Richard Koman delivers news and analysis on IT and enterprise computing in city, state & federal government.
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ZDNet Healthcare
Dana Blankenhorn
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
Larry Dignan, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters
Staying on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks.