| Editor's note: For a little Friday diversion, I have a review of the four big Internet set-top boxes. Ironically, the least expensive one is the best. Also, don't miss Microsoft's smackdown of the private cloud or the 10 most dangerous species of IT managers. -Jason Internet TV: Roku still trumps Apple, Google, and Boxee The Internet TV market has gotten very crowded very quickly. For those who want to add an Internet-connected box to their entertainment center, here's a quick rundown of the four main options. Read more Internet TV: Google vs. Apple vs. Boxee vs. Roku 
| News from ZDNet | | | Cloud computing is better left to cloud vendors, not enterprises: Microsoft report Private clouds may cost 10 times more than comparable public cloud services, researchers calculate. Issues such as security and performance are also effectively being addressed, they add. Read more | | Android fail. The answer is a Google phone Android might indeed become the Windows of the mobile world. But that does not make Google its Microsoft. Read more | | ComScore: Microsoft search grew 50% faster than Google in October The latest US search engine rankings from comScore show that only Google and Microsoft grew their market share while Yahoo!, Ask and AOL lost share. Microsoft's Bing outpaced Google in October, adding 0.3 percentage points to 11.5% market share. Google increased its lead by 0.2 percentage points to 66.3%. Second... Read more | | IBM convinced clouds are the way to health Collecting EMR data on your patients by hand, and turning a hard drive into your file room, is not the future. Read more | | Chart: Tablets coming to market Wondering what tablets are going to be coming down the pike? Look no further. Read more | | No, really, Google's fine: UK allows Google to delete Brit WiFi data Google's OK...No, wait, they broke the law...Wait, we can't do anything about it anyway...Er, nevermind (to paraphrase the UK's Internet watchdog). Read more | | Salesforce.com: Free stripped down Chatter on deck Salesforce.com is planning to release a stripped-down version of its Chatter corporate social networking software to accelerate adoption. Read more | | Eight Tablet Market Predictions for 2011 by ABI Analyst, Jeff Orr ABI Research analyst Jeff Orr weighed in on the prospects of the iPad and the BlackBerry PlayBook, dual-core versus single-core CPUs on tablets, and why netbooks will still reign over tablets for the near future. Read more | | IBM cooks up new storage architecture IBM on Friday will detail a storage architecture dubbed the General Parallel File System-Shared Nothing Cluster that's designed to improve analytics and keep crunching numbers even through failures and malfunctions. Read more | | SIM unlocked GSM Palm Pre 2 now available for $449.99 You can now buy a new Palm Pre 2 running webOS 2.0 from the HP website. Anyone picking up one of these new devices besides me? Read more | | 8 reasons you might NOT want to buy a Kinect The Kinect is truly an amazing device, but it might not be what you expect. Even worse, you might get it home and discover it's not actually usable in your house. Read more | | Shopping with your smartphone: A guide to Black Friday mobile apps Here's your guide to the survival guides found in Black Friday mobile apps for iOS and Android. Read more | | No updated Wii until at least 2012 According to Reggie Fils-Aime, President and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, there won't be a Wii update until at least 2012. Read more |
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