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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.

• Windows XP Service Pack 3 adds support for WPA2
• Dell Inspiron desktop now $300
• Rumors: Canon to release sibling dSLR to Rebel XSi?
• Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta and earns a spot as my right soft key shortcut
• Olympus E-520 dSLR debuts

• Digital Cameras
• Laptops & Desktops
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• SOHO Networking
• The ToyBox

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.

• Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
• Dancho Danchev: A U.S military botnet in the works

• Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest
• Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from today
• Microsoft plugs Office leaks; Delivers 4 critical patches
• McAfee isn't "McAfee Secure" or "Hacker Safe"
• A U.S military botnet in the works

• Zero Day
• Threat Chaos
• Between the Lines

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.

• Linux's biggest victory so far - Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards
• Can you see yourself running Windows Vista in 2014?
• Dell Inspiron desktop now $300
• Content Protection madness on Vista
• 6 Gbit drives coming

• Storage Bits
• Hardware 2.0
• The Core Truth
• Laptops & Desktops

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.

• Mary Jo Foley: Report: Windows Mobile 7 to incorporate touch, gesture recognition
• Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Can you see yourself running Windows XP in 2014?

• 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?

• The BlackBerry Beat
• IP Telephony
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• The Social Web
• SOHO Networking
• Team Think

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.

• Larry Dignan: HP's bid for EDS: Opportunity costs loom
• Michael Krigsman: EDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projects
• Dennis Howlett: HP's to-do list following EDS acquisition

• Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move
• WWDC08: Tickets sold out
• First public release of Silverlight for Linux is out
• Does Microsoft really need to diversify into consumer products?
• AT&T blowing out refurbished iPhones

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• The BlackBerry Beat
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Googling Google

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.

• Mary Jo Foley: Windows XP cut-off set in stone
• Christopher Dawson: Will Microsoft kill Linux on ULPCs?
• Richard Koman: OLPC ready to scrap Linux

• WWDC08: Tickets sold out
• First public release of Silverlight for Linux is out
• Does Microsoft really need to diversify into consumer products?
• AT&T blowing out refurbished iPhones
• Google losing cellphone battle?

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Linux and Open Source
• Managing L'unix
• The Universal Desktop

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.

• Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move
• Workday: a tipping point?
• Putting Workday on SAP's radar
• HP partners with Desktone to advance virtualized desktops as a service
• European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?

• Between the Lines
• BriefingsDirect
• Enterprise Anti-matter
• Enterprise Web 2.0
• Irregular Enterprise
• IT Project Failures
• Service Oriented
• Software as Services

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?

• Larry Dignan: Zoho's login gambit: It works

• Semantics add value to new travel site as UpTake emerges from private beta
• Google about to launch Flash API for Maps
• Latest Flock Beta delivers Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail support
• Google accidentally enables ratings on some Blogger accounts
• A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?

• Googling Google
• Dev Connection
• The Semantic Web
• The Social Web
• The Universal Desktop
• Web 2.0 Explorer

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?

• Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.
• OK, Dell. Maybe your tech's greener, but what about green services?
• UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis
• Business PCs are going nowhere fast
• SOA market passes $2 billion mark, whatever that means

• On Sustainability
• IT Project Failures
• GreenTech Pastures
• IT Services & Outsourcing
• Managing L'unix

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?

• UK warned of China, India software threat
• Free software great and small
• Common misconceptions about database security
• SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'
• HP develops new type of memory circuit

• Between The Lines
• All About Microsoft
• The Core Truth
• IT Facts
• Emerging Technologies
• Tom Foremski: IMHO