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Today's Top Picks   Sony's latest e-readers: Understanding the trade-offs and global strategy Why would Sony make such trade-offs between touch and connectivity for its e-readers? Sony is playing a global game and perhaps 3G and Wi-Fi just doesn't matter as much to folks in China and Spain. READ FULL STORY   Recommended Affordable, Easy-to-Use Cloud Server Backup: Free Trial Offer Sign up for award-winning, fully managed cloud service from Iron Mountain and find out why more than 140,000 customers entrust their data to the experts. Get your free trial offer and discover secure, automated online backup for your organization.   How do I love my new Mac? Let me count the ways... Remember that old Joan Jett song, "I Hate Myself for Loving You"? That about sums up my relationship with my new Mac. READ FULL STORY   In latest refresh, HP brings 3D to Envy series, 'intelligent cooling' to Pavilion dm3 laptop HP is bringing 3D technology to its Envy series of premium laptops, "intelligent cooling" to its dm3 model and introducing wireless 1080p video streaming. READ FULL STORY   VMware's Maritz: Innovation efforts will focus on IT as a service Speaking at VMworld's opening keynote in San Francisco, VMware CEO Paul Maritz said innovation in the tech industry will revolve around IT as a service. READ FULL STORY   Recommended Affordable, Easy-to-Use Cloud Server Backup: Free Trial Offer Sign up for award-winning, fully managed cloud service from Iron Mountain and find out why more than 140,000 customers entrust their data to the experts. Get your free trial offer and discover secure, automated online backup for your organization.   Are routerless datacenters in Microsoft's future? Microsoft Research is exploring a new way to connect servers directly to other servers, without the use of any switches or dedicated networking inside a datacenter container. READ FULL STORY   Target to offer Facebook Credits gift cards Target is betting that Facebook Credits gift cards will be a holiday stocking stuffer. Will Facebook gift cards sell? READ FULL STORY Windows 7 Family Pack to make a comeback in October The Windows 7 Family Pack promotion is coming back, right after the back-to-school PC buying rush is over. READ FULL STORY Salesforce.com integrates Jigsaw, aims for better data quality Salesforce.com showed off the fruits of its Jigsaw acquisition with the integration of business data and customer relationship management tools. Will you pay for crowdsourced contact data? READ FULL STORY India's next targets: Google, Skype India has instructed Google and Skype to allow its government to monitor their customer data or face being banned. READ FULL STORY This was the year of desktop Linux It's the compatibility between Chromium and Android, based on Linux, which I think gives the old mouse-and-keyboard upright posture desktop Linux yet-another chance. READ FULL STORY HP grabs printer market share The overall printer market saw revenue surge 14 percent in the second quarter to $13.3 billion, according to IDC. Hewlett-Packard continued to gain share. READ FULL STORY   Top SmartPlanet Pick   GM applies for a trademark on "range anxiety" Just in case you're worried about being stranded in your electric car... by Deborah Gage READ FULL STORY Want more? Sign up for SmartPlanet's daily newsletter   Hot Topic Spotlight   The culture of Silicon Valley And Burning Man... The Burning Man festival is a celebration of abundance and creativity. It is where Silicon Valley goes to play... READ FULL STORY More talked-about posts: Windows 7 Family Pack to make a comeback in October Image Gallery: Hands-on with the $149 Kobo eReader Featured Photo Gallery   Megacheap megazooms Want a digital camera with a long-zoom lens, but without the high price? Here's a selection of compact and full-size megazooms with prices ranging from $99 to $250. VIEW THE GALLERY More photo galleries: HP Envy, Netbook updates and more (photos) SanDisk Sansa Fuze+ (photos) Featured Product Coverage   Swype keyboard comes to Symbian, should rock the N8 soon Nokia's software keyboards have not been very good so I am extremely pleased to now see the awesome Swype keyboard come to Symbian devices. READ FULL STORY More product coverage: Netgear introduces NeoTV media streamer: Does it have any chance against new Apple TV, Google TV? Samsung hosting 'Free the TV Developer Day' to boost Smart TV market Like gadgets? 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At the Summit at Stanford, sponsored by AlwaysOn & STVP, AlwaysOn founder Tony Perkins talks to "You Are Not a Gadget" author Jaron Lanier about Facebook, and why teenagers may start shunning the social-media platform. PLAY VIDEO   Did the Web kill journalism, and will the iPad bring it back? At the Summit at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., Tony Perkins, founder of AlwaysOn, moderates a discussion about the state of journalism in the Digital Age with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Quentin Hardy of Forbes, and Robert Scoble of Scobelizer. PLAY VIDEO   The Future Of... Packaging Packing material is no friend to the environment. It takes significant energy to produce and often ends up in the landfill after a single use. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das looks at some greener options. 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