| Editor's note: Sure, the tech world is infatuated with mobile devices these days but businesses still dole out desktops. Right? Poll time. Also, see Dell's flippy netbook-tablet hybrid, how to use your SSID to mess with your neighbors, and smartphone apps we hope we never see. -Jason Poll: Are desktop PCs still the standard in your organization? Most of the attention of the tech industry is pointed toward mobile computing devices, but desktops still dominate in business. Do you agree? Take the poll. Read more | News from ZDNet | | | Dell's Inspiron duo: Success hinges on finding a market Dell's Inspiron duo, a hybrid tablet-netbook, is now available---at least at Microsoft's store---but the larger question is whether this contraption will find a market. Read more | | Verizon's 4G pricing shift: Will you pay by download speed? Verizon Wireless is reportedly looking at new pricing models for its 4G network and one option is to charge based on data speeds. Read more | | Use your router's SSID, not Twitter, to whine to your neighbors Neighbors. What can you do about them? Read more | | IE9 takes top benchmark prize, no cheating involved I was going to write a short post this morning passing along the news that Microsoft was releasing a new Platform Preview for Internet Explorer 9. And then I got distracted by (I am not making this up) a "slashdotted flamebait troll story." Is it true? Who cares? Read more | | Windows 7 On The MacBook Air: Don't Go There Why would you want to install Windows 7 on a MacBook? It makes Steve Jobs sad. Read more | | Tale of two Dells: Enterprise strong, consumer demand weak Dell's fiscal third quarter results highlighted the two sides of the company as corporate demand remained strong, but the consumer business was weak. Read more | | Net neutrality may end in the UK: Universities will suffer Ed Vaizey, the communications minister for UK government favours a 'two tier' system which would essentially be the death of net neutrality in Great Britain. Is net neutrality a good thing or a bad thing? Read more | | Google renames, bulks up Google Apps, following Microsoft's Office 365 rebranding As of November 18, Google Apps -- the primary competitor of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) and Office 365 successor -- has gone from being a bundle of eight apps to one with 60. Sort of.... Read more | | Managed Mobility Gets Even Better, Exposes Dithering IT Managers Verizon introduced an upgrade to its managed mobility service that takes away one more excuse for IT managers procrastinating about when to secure and manage their smartphones and tablets. Read more | | Salesforce earnings: Beats expectations, raises guidance as cloud grows The cloud message the Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff continues to preach seems to be paying off. Read more | | Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux Got Linux? Got SSD? Here's your tweaking guide. Read more | | Can Disney take geolocation, Gowalla mainstream? Disney announced a geolocation partnership with Gowalla and may take the whole sector mainstream. Read more | | Microsoft Lync to link up with Kinect via new video connector Microsoft is working on a new video connector update for its Kinect sensor that will bridge the living room and the office. Microsoft announced plans to deliver the Video Kinect update "shortly." Read more | | Your next watch may be an iPod, and vice-versa When the sixth-gen iPod nano was announced, Steve Jobs commented that an Apple board member planned to wear it as a watch. Ever since, a cottage industry has cropped around ways to wear the new nano as a watch. Read more |
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