Samsung vs. Apple; Wi-Fi hotspots; Microsoft HomeOS; 10 best Android phones [TECH UPDATE]

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Today's Top Picks ? Samsung won't quietly cede ground to Apple Samsung, the Korean electronics giant, appears to be playing hardball with Apple as both companies aim to connect consumers on multiple screens from the TV to tablets to mobile devices. READ FULL STORY   Recommended What are the highest paying job roles? IT Professionals - Find out in the 2010 activeTechPros IT salary & skills report. Be a member for free access. * * * * * * * * * * * * Business Professionals Join activeBizPros and identify the highest paying job roles in your country with our salary benchmark wizard.   Long distance WiFi rule could be just 10 days away Imagine. Easily networked hotspots, with omnidirectional antennas that can find fiber, not just the pitiful excuse for broadband your phone or cable monopoly sells. READ FULL STORY   Microsoft experiments with 'HomeOS' and home app store ideas Microsoft Research is working on a project known as "HomeOS," which will provide a way to isolate non/less-technical users from a heterogeneous and often incompatible mess of devices. READ FULL STORY   HP beefs up security line-up, buys ArcSight for $1.5 billion Hewlett-Packard made it official: It is buying security software vendor ArcSight for $1.5 billion in its second security acquisition over the last four weeks. READ FULL STORY   Recommended What are the highest paying job roles? IT Professionals - Find out in the 2010 activeTechPros IT salary & skills report. Be a member for free access. * * * * * * * * * * * * Business Professionals Join activeBizPros and identify the highest paying job roles in your country with our salary benchmark wizard.   Open letter to Apple: Make more software available on Windows An open letter to Apple, asking them why they don't (and if they will) port all of their applications to Windows. READ FULL STORY   Apple's new review guidelines: Thoughts on fart apps Do Apple's new App Store review guidelines inadvertently confirm some of the worst suspicions developers have about the company's review process? READ FULL STORY Android leaderboard: The 10 best smartphones A hot, new Android phone seems to hit the market almost every week. To help you sort through them all, here's our list of the 10 best Android smartphones. READ FULL STORY Microsoft celebrates Windows Phone 7 with mock iPhone funeral Microsoft employees celebrated Windows Phone 7 RTM by holding a mock funeral for the iPhone and BlackBerry through the Redmond campus. READ FULL STORY Thin clients vs. Smart Displays If you want to understand what happened to Sun, look no further than Sun Marketing's insistence on selling the Sun Ray as a thin client - something it isn't. READ FULL STORY Motorola's next-generation remote recharges in just 60 seconds Motorola has unwrapped a pair of new HDTV remote controls, including one that has a QWERTY keyboard on one side and device control buttons on the other, and one that be recharged in just 60 seconds. READ FULL STORY Is there really any value to 3-year smartphone forecasts? Smartphone forecasts out to 2014 appeared online from Gartner this week, but I have a tough time putting too much value when we have seen two recent operating systems go from 0 to 15 percent share in a short time. READ FULL STORY PCM: flash killer or flash road kill? Silicon oxide nanocrystal memory isn't the only non-volatile alternative should NAND flash run stop scaling down. PCM is alive and shipping today. Can it make the grade? READ FULL STORY   Top SmartPlanet Pick   Wisdom teeth: stashing your own stem cells Japanese researchers create stem cell lines from the pulp of wisdom teeth. Could personalized medical applications follow? READ FULL STORY Want more? Sign up for SmartPlanet's daily newsletter   Hot Topic Spotlight   Do all hardcore PC gamers look down on casual gaming? Are PC gamers who choose fighting wars on terrorism or slaying aliens with an overclocked, liquid-cooled desktop elitists who thumb their noses at others? READ FULL STORY More talked-about posts: The Google Store opportunity Microsoft delivers near-final test build of Lync PBX competitor Featured Photo Gallery   Use Exchange 2010 ActiveSync to limit mobile security issues Exchange 2010's built-in ActiveSync provide you with a baseline set of security controls that might be enough to protect your company from the pitfalls sometimes associated with mobility. VIEW THE GALLERY More photo galleries: Microsoft's funeral for the iPhone (photos) RIM BlackBerry Curve 3G (photos) Featured Product Coverage   Apple iPad Wi-Fi to land in China on Sept. 17 Apple will make Wi-Fi-enabled models of its iPad available to customers in China on Sept. 17. It's a lucrative move that will no doubt result in millions in shipped units. READ FULL STORY More product coverage: Mitsubishi Electric unleashes 'world's first' large-scale OLED display Radio Shack to sell T-Mobile G2 for $149.99 with contract Like gadgets? Sign up for ZDNet's Product Watch Newsletter	News & Blogs   Microsoft Zune HD2 more than just a rumor?   Microsoft delivers near-final test build of Lync PBX competitor   Mitsubishi Electric unleashes 'world's first' large-scale OLED display   Radio Shack to sell T-Mobile G2 for $149.99 with contract   New ARM moves closer to the datacenter   iPad rumored to be heading to Target next month   Panasonic unveils AF105 Micro Four Thirds camcorder   Do SOA and enterprise architecture now mean the same thing?   WSJ: GoDaddy for sale, could fetch $1 billion   Archos 32 Android tablet with 3.2" touchscreen now shipping; $149.99     Latest SmartPlanet   Information insecurity: businesses not ready for cyber crime wave   Lockheed Martin: mobile microgrid will help save troops' lives   Links between global warming and extreme weather get stronger   Energy House will have fake weather   The smart grid build-out: How do you pick up the pace?     Connect with ZDNet         Videos and Podcasts   Apple TV has gone streaming Apple unveils the Apple TV--now considerably smaller, with new and improved features like photo sharing, Netflix streaming, and TV and movie rentals. 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Microsoft fights zero-day PDF attacks; IDF - Intel's changing face; HP focusing on the datacenter

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IT News Happening Now Microsoft's anti-exploit toolkit can help mitigate PDF zero-day attacks Microsoft is pushing its new Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) as a temporary mitigation for the ongoing attacks against a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's PDF Reader/Acrobat products. READ FULL STORY IDF: As technology evolves, Intel pushes itself to adapt to new demands in computing AMD releases Catalyst 10.8b hotfix   Recommended What are the highest paying job roles? IT Professionals - Find out in the 2010 activeTechPros IT salary & skills report. Be a member for free access. * * * * * * * * * * * * Business Professionals Join activeBizPros and identify the highest paying job roles in your country with our salary benchmark wizard.   Top Stories Right Now HP's acquisition spree focuses on monitoring the datacenter and its applications. Interview: Former HP Chief Technologist and Why the iPad is an Innovation and Not Invention. Oracle ships Secure Global Desktop 4.6 There's more than one way to migrate to Windows 7 Are Microsoft lawyers partying with Putin to harass Russian rebels? Android leaderboard: The 10 best smartphones   Connect with ZDNet   Recommended What are the highest paying job roles? IT Professionals - Find out in the 2010 activeTechPros IT salary & skills report. Be a member for free access. * * * * * * * * * * * * Business Professionals Join activeBizPros and identify the highest paying job roles in your country with our salary benchmark wizard.

 

Reducing the Hidden Costs of Boosting Data Center Power Capacity

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