Windows 7 hits Milestone 3; Lipstick on the DRM pig [TECH UPDATE]

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Top Editors Picks Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Mary Jo Foley: I have seen the future -- Windows 7 Build 6780 -- and it does exist and is, indeed, in testers' hands inside and outside the company. The latest build appears to be quite stable. READ FULL STORY Windows: You say major; I say minor Ed Bott: Is Microsoft aiming for an early Windows 7 launch? What would Windows be without Win32? Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will Windows 7 be too expensive? Sponsored Sept. 11: Integrated Security: Simplified and scalable threat management Join TechRepublic's live Webcast to learn about the growing need for Integrated Security--deploying, managing, & supporting a comprehensive portfolio of complex network security solutions. (Nokia) Economic crisis as technology change agent Jason Perlow: The dark cloud over Wall Street has a silver lining: The long-hoped-for paradigm shift may be coming quicker than we thought. Will the economy force us to do more with less and use radical enabling technologies to help us accomplish it? READ FULL STORY Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit Forrester cuts 2009 IT spending projections Dennis Howlett: Seesmic layoffs and a new reality? HP vs. IBM: The looming IT services war Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Gauging your own risk, on this Black Monday Sponsored Sept. 11: Integrated Security: Simplified and scalable threat management Join TechRepublic's live Webcast to learn about the growing need for Integrated Security--deploying, managing, & supporting a comprehensive portfolio of complex network security solutions. (Nokia) Lipstick on the DRM pig Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem a genuine move to make digital content easier to handle for the end user -- or is the DECE consortium just a feeble attempt to claw back some market share from Apple? READ FULL STORY Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft joins the 'everyone but Apple' digital-media coalition Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Now Debuting -- one-click payment for illegal downloads Spore DRM could kill PC gaming Zack Whittaker: The music scene: legal vs. illegal RealNetworks: Rip those DVDs (with a dash of DRM) iTunes Unlimited: music subscription rumor returns The "As close to $150 as you can get it" PC Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: If you wanted to build a PC but spend as close to $150 as possible, what components would you buy for a PC to run XP/Vista? READ FULL STORY The $2,000 build-it-yourself do-it-all PC VMware: What is the competition? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft archrival VMware announced the "Virtual Datacenter OS" that some are comparing with Windows Server 2008. The trouble is that VMware's competition won't be Windows Server 2008. READ FULL STORY Paula Rooney: Maritz: VMWare better next-gen OS than Windows and Hyper-V Dan Kusnetzky: Notes from VMworld Citrix aims high with XenServer 5, cloud center Larry Dignan: VMware rolls out Fusion 2.0 for Mac virtualization Citrix launches XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3) Google Desktop gets huge performance boost Garett Rogers: Garett Rogers: Google released a new version of their software yesterday which mainly focuses on performance -- and boy did it work. Plus, there are new features and the memory footprint is quite a bit smaller than before. READ FULL STORY Garett Rogers: Google's 9 month log anonymization a farce? Jason D. O'Grady: Google releases Gears for Safari Focus on Google Chrome Mozilla: We goofed on the EULA, let's talk Joe Brockmeier: The Mozilla Foundation is making changes to its EULA display for Linux distros, after receiving complaints earlier this week. The project is clearly willing to work with its downstream vendors and end users to make sure that they're hitting the right tone for their audience. READ FULL STORY What's the big deal about the Firefox EULA? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Might Ubuntu and Firefox part ways because of the dreaded EULA? Featured TalkBack HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integration Sam Diaz: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd and executives are releasing details of the company's plans to integrate EDS into growth strategy, including a restructuring that will reduce the workforce by almost 25,000 employees over the next three years. READ FULL BLOG What do you think? Is HP heading in the right direction? Post Your Thoughts in TalkBack Elsewhere on ZDNet ZDNet Reviews Ibiza Rhapsody John Morris: HP is introducing a new 18.4-inch widescreen laptop that's geared toward digital entertainment with high-resolution displays, TV tuners and Blu-ray drives. READ FULL REVIEW Kodak EasyShare M1033 (Black) Samsung S3 Slim (4GB, black) More ZDNet Reviews ZDNet Videocasts How HP's layoffs will impact IT ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz talk about the recent announcement that Hewlett-Packard will be reducing its workforce by nearly 25,000 due to its integration with EDS and how HP is competing with IBM for more IT services market share. WATCH THE VIDEO Cutting costs with TelePresence Will one company control the cloud? More ZDNet Videocasts	News and Blogs Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer Tech could have averted fatal LA train crash Forrester cuts 2009 IT spending projections Leaked Homeland Security doc warns of data threats Google downplays Chrome's carpet-bombing flaw Untangle changes the security game with open source Is That Non-Compete Too Broad? Lenovo enters server market; Targets SMBs Tech trade-ins: Two new options for extending the life of your mobile phone Dell: Demand is worse than we thought; Ingram Micro agrees; Best Buy misses What makes Web shoppers click "Buy" or "Bye"? Google Android device will be announced by T-Mobile on 23 September IT Dojo: Track a user's Internet Explorer History with IEHistoryView First true 3-D processor runs in labs 'John McCain invented the BlackBerry' Live BNET Webcast: Unleashing the Value of VoIP Thu., Sept. 18th @ 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT / 20:00 GMT Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is now more than just a cheap way to route phone calls over the Internet—for companies of all sizes, the challenge is how to leverage VoIP to save money and improve productivity. Where do you start? Join this FREE, live Webcast and Q&A, sponsored by VoIP-News, to learn about the challenges and rewards of using IP-based communications and get expert insight on the value of VoIP for other services. Register NOW! Most Rated Posts Learning From The Train Wreck Of Text Messaging Browser Wars 2.0: Firefox scrambles to add 'private mode' browsing Spore DRM could kill PC gaming Google steals Microsoft code and you should cheer Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts   Videos and Podcasts EIC Podcast: Google Chrome; Apple; Dell and Salesforce.com On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Google's Chrome browser, Apple's iPod event next week and my theory that Dell and Salesforce.com should merge. PLAY AUDIO Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby: deploying collaboration to the enterprise Rebecca Jacoby, CIO of Cisco talks to ZDNet's Sumi Das about adding new collaboration tools such as TelePresence and Unified Communications inside the enterprise. She also shares her views on managing IT for more than 50,000 employees worldwide, and why she's been called one of the most extroverted CIOs in Silicon Valley. PLAY VIDEO Slide CTO Jeremiah Robison: Inside social networking apps Jeremiah Robison, CTO of Slide talks with CNET News? Dan Farber about what it takes to develop a technology infrastructure to support applications across a host of social network sites and the company's unique relationship with Facebook as both competitor and partner in the area of application development. PLAY VIDEO Second Life enters the realm of the enterprise Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab talks to Dan Farber about the challenges in developing dynamic and reliable backend operations for the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Miller also discusses how they're incorporating new hi-tech conferencing tools for business users such as VoIP solutions and video streaming technologies. PLAY VIDEO CareerBuilder.com CTO: New search engine analytics Eric Presley, CTO of CareerBuilder talks about how the company is analyzing keywords to better understand the intentions of its users and then applying those results back for job recommendations. PLAY VIDEO Play more video and audio New Technologies Sponsored White papers Sept. 11: Integrated Security: Simplified and scalable threat management Join TechRepublic's live Webcast to learn about the growing need for Integrated Security--deploying, managing, & supporting a comprehensive portfolio of complex network security solutions. (Nokia) IBM Balanced Warehouse: A flexible foundation for real time business intelligence Watch this short video to learn about IBM's Balanced Warehouse, a complete 'ready-to-go' data warehousing solution with pre-tested, scalable and fully-integrated system components. (IBM) Tools & Strategies for Expense Management Read these research findings from CFO Research Services to learn how mid-sized companies can better manage indirect expenses. (American Express) Need disk space? View this IBM DB2 9 compression demo View this demo to learn about IBM DB2 9, and see why its new data row compression technology can provide up to 80% savings on disc space--with I/O improvements of up to 40%. (IBM) Advances in data warehouse performance: I/O elimination in DB2 Learn how to reduce query response time, support real-time data warehousing, optimize your storage, and lower operating costs. (IBM) More white papers: Most popular papers Recently added papers Most popular papers by industry
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