Just In

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.

• 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
• Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops

• 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

• 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
• McAfee's HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it!

• 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.

• Can you see yourself running Windows Vista in 2014?
• Dell Inspiron desktop now $300
• Content Protection madness on Vista
• 6 Gbit drives coming
• Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?

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

Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta

Matthew Miller: It is so good that it has now earned a place as the right soft key on all of my Nokia S60 devices, including the new Nokia N82 I just received to evaluate.

• 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

• European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?
• Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions
• Benchmarks: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)
• The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues
• Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to Mac

• 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

• Fedora 9 ships, openSuse 11 due June 19
• Frequent open source miles
• Benchmarks: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)
• The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues
• Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to Mac

• 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.

• European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?
• Cloud computing
• Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions
• SOA market passes $2 billion mark, whatever that means
• HP's to-do list following EDS acquisition

• 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?

• UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis
• Business PCs are going nowhere fast
• SOA market passes $2 billion mark, whatever that means
• First, a game of green. Then, fade to black
• Feedburner is down

• 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