News from ZDNet | | | BlackBerry PlayBook: Hot Hardware, But At What Price? Type in BlackBerryPlayBook.com and you'll end up eyeballing probably the most gadget-licious tablet announced yet. What has bloggers so lathered up, when the iPad is riding so high and a wave of Android tablets are coming soon? A recap of the relevant specs explains why. - First tablet announced with... Read more | | OpenOffice.org forsakes Oracle, forms new foundation and fork It comes as no surprise that longtime backers of OpenOffice.org are taking control over the open source project from Oracle, its new owner. On Tuesday, the OpenOffice.org community announced the formation of the Document Foundation and the re-release of OpenOffice code under a new brand name -- LibreOffice. OpenOffice was... Read more | | RIM aims to defend enterprise turf; Eyes 'super apps' for business Research in Motion has launched middleware and an application development platform designed to build "super apps" for the enterprise. RIM has partnered with IBM, Oracle and SAP to develop mobile enterprise apps. Read more | | Malware attacks force MS to ship emergency ASP.net patch Microsoft plans to ship an out-of-band security update tomorrow (September 28, 2010) to fix a serious ASP.net vulnerability that's being exploited in the wild. Read more | | Updated: Will the Kno Tablet finally make e-textbooks mainstream? The 14.1" Kno tablet will either be the Ed Tech holy grail or just one more failed ebook startup in a world that still likes killing trees. Read more | | And the ideal size for a tablet is ... What's the ideal size for a tablet computer? Read more | | How to build the perfect Android tablet, part 5: The price of perfection Previous installments have been all about the features. But how much is this thing going to cost? In one sense, Apple has made the answer easy. Read more | | Meet the new Microsoft: We don't have to do everything Microsoft's move to transition Windows Live Spaces customers to Wordpress.com is another sign that the company doesn't have to be all things to all people. It's a positive turn for Microsoft. Read more | | Mac Pro: Apple (finally) addresses problems with some ATI X1900 XT video cards In a recent support note, Apple offers to replace certain, problem ATI X1900 XT video cards found in a range of older Mac Pros. Users had complained for several years of distorted video from the cards. Read more | | Apple using retail stores to target SMB market A new sign of greater acceptance by business customers of Apple and the Macintosh is Cupertino's growing interest in that once 100 percent PC market. Apple is expanding its sales support operation to businesses as well as adding business-centric sections to its retail stores. Read more | | HP's datacenters go Cisco free HP stands by their promise to rid themselves of the shackles of Cisco. But is this anythng beyond a marketing statement? Read more | | Should our public libraries be outsourced? Guess what? It's already happening. What do you think? Should private companies take over our public libraries? Read more | | New Apple TV starts shipping--will AirPlay work? I purchased an Apple TV on announcement day. There's one main feature I'm interested in: AirPlay. Now the question is whether or not I can actually try it out before November. Read more |
|  | | | Steampunk: A way of life for some designers For many, steampunk is a fun hobby. But for designers Jake von Slatt and Richard Nagy, steampunk is a way of life. See photos of a steampunk antiquated PC, a steampunk keyboard, and more. | |
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