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Today's Top Picks   Windows Phone 7 vs. Android: Can you choose just one? Windows Phone 7 is hot, slick, and new while Android 2.2 is on fire in the mobile space. Come look into the mind of a mobile mad man as I try to figure out which of these two I am choosing for myself. READ FULL STORY     SAP lawyer: "board was aware" of infringement at time of TomorrowNow acquisition Uh-oh. Could there have been a slip of the tongue by a lawyer at the Oracle-SAP trial this morning? READ FULL STORY   ZDNet's Ultimate Black Friday 2010 guide to deals and steals Black Friday -- November 26, 2010 -- is almost here. Here's ZDNet's ultimate guide to the sweetest deals and steals of 2010. READ FULL STORY   Google's tab for its across-the-board raises: $400 million in 2011 Google gave all of its employees a $1,000 holiday cash bonus for 2010 and at least a 10 percent salary increase 2011. 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OS X Server may be a great product, but Apple releasing it into the wild just doesn't seem to be in the cards, despite the wishful thinking of its supporters. READ FULL STORY RIM's Playbook: Pricing under $500 and a big bet on Flash Research in Motion will reportedly sell its PlayBook for "under" $500 in a bid to take on Apple's iPad. READ FULL STORY   Top SmartPlanet Pick   At GM, in pursuit of a crash-proof car John Capp leads General Motors' active safety team. We spoke to him about the sensors and technologies that are helping cars drive by themselves. READ FULL STORY Want more? Sign up for SmartPlanet's daily newsletter   Hot Topic Spotlight   President Obama declares India a world power and tactfully addresses outsourcing President Obama's visit to India addresses concerns and mesmerises the countrymen. READ FULL STORY More talked-about posts: MLB CEO: Challenges of streaming live baseball to mobile devices Rockmelt - How big is the threat to Google? Featured Photo Gallery   MacBook Air 11-inch: The Mercedes Benz of netbooks The Apple MacBook Air 11-inch has broken new ground for netbooks. See why and learn its one major flaw. VIEW THE GALLERY More photo galleries: Living large in Tiny Houses (photos) Sony PSP Go Teardown Featured Product Coverage   Sony Vaio Y laptop series sized down to 11.6-inches Previously sitting pretty at 13.3-inches, the Sony Vaio Y notebook series has been sized down to a more portable 11.6-inches of screen space. READ FULL STORY More product coverage: Samsung Galaxy Tab now available with T-Mobile USA Sprint ZTE Peel brings 3G connectivity to iPod touch Like gadgets? Sign up for ZDNet's Product Watch Newsletter	News & Blogs   Friends of Wikileaks' traitor Manning whine about government investigation. Well, duh.   RockMelt: The Next Social Browser   Zoho adds help desk software to app arsenal   Xerox revamps supplies recycling program   Rumor: Microsoft is developing ESPN-branded Xbox 360   Philippe Starck designs sleek LaCie Mobile USB 3.0 hard drives   Apache drops the hammer on Oracle over Java   125 million iOS devices morph into credit card terminals   Spoon launches a hybrid Software as a Service offering-Spoon Feed   Nuance's RadPort unit wins big hospital deal; Healthcare momentum accelerates     Latest SmartPlanet   Bill Gates: mobile health technology will save lives, help overpopulation   Mass market adoption of EVs by 2020?   For cleaner transportation, target the second car   Why businesses should get back to nature   Ted Turner: 'Wars disrupt all the things we're trying to do'     Connect with ZDNet         Videos and Podcasts   MLB.com CEO: Challenges of streaming live baseball to mobile devices At the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman talks about optimizing mobile applications in a world with network congestion. 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