News from ZDNet | | States dropping ball on health technology reform Reformers like David Kibbe and Brian Klepper are despairing over the industry's refusal to change business models in the face of health reform, The market's growth is unsustainable, period, but its players refuse to accept that reality. Read more | | Oracle, HP renew their enterprise IT vows; Settle Hurd flap Given all the hubbub surrounding Mark Hurd, the Oracle and Hewlett-Packard relationship was an open question. You’ll be happy to know that Oracle and HP have kissed and made up. Read more | | Super WiFi solves the Google carrier problem With Super WiFi Google would not need to build out its own network in order to see consumers offered extensive, high-speed WiFi services. Read more | | Leaderless Hewlett-Packard value continues to slide as it settles Hurd suit HP has failed it its challenge to Oracle's employment of its former CEO Mark Hurd... Read more | | HP just blew up Android tablet pricing (with a printer) Officially, HP isn't in the Android tablet market. Unofficially, HP is going to be a real pain to Dell and its Streak and potentially Samsung's Galaxy Tab. Read more | | Apple iPhone 4 heading to China on September 25 Following the release of the iPad in China last week, Apple is sending the iPhone 4 over there as well on September 25. Read more | | Spotted: BlackBerry Storm 3 with 3.7-inch display? RIM's old answer to Apple's iPhone might have a new generation of its own soon. A photo is circling the Internet that is leading many to believe we might be seeing a BlackBerry Storm 3 in the coming months. Read more | | Verizon's next CEO: Wireless chief Lowell McAdam Verizon formally set its succession plan for the eventual departure of CEO Ivan Seidenberg as it named wireless chief Lowell McAdam as chief operating officer. Read more | | Official Google Voice app coming to iPhone soon? It's only been a couple weeks since Apple relaxed their app guidelines, and two native iPhone apps that were once taken out of the App Store have been re-included. These two apps are ones that users can use with their Google Voice account (GV Connect and GV Mobile+) -- both... Read more | | The tech industry is not a democracy I hate to break it to you guys, but while we can all have blogs, and post on Facebook and Twitter and forums and message boards, and even give CEO of multi-billion dollar companies an ear-bashing, the tech industry is not a democracy. Read more | | Is Apple's ban on iPad porn damaging the future of media? The porn industry has always been the first to develop viable business models for media technologies dating back to Gutenberg... Read more | |
Featured multimedia | | Jason Hiner's 20 favorite iPad apps Jason Hiner has said that the Apple iPad is only good at two things but that it's really good at those two things. As a result, he's compiled a list of his 20 favorite apps for taking advantage of the iPad's strengths. View on site | 
| Microsoft telescope puts the universe on your desktop Stargazers can find black holes, radiation fields, and supernovas right from their desktops with Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope. View on site | 
| Ideas and innovation at Silicon Valley art and tech fest (photos) The 2010 01SJ Biennial, which opened this week in San Jose, Calif., asks artists, engineers, and designers to hack the world, building and rebuilding--physically and conceptually--with ideas and innovation. View on site | 
| What not to do in a server room Your server room may be perfect; every Ethernet cable in place, all KVM and power cables neatly tucked into the sides of the racks. Your comm rack may be a marvel of modern cable management. Unfortunately, not all server rooms are so lucky. Some server rooms are nothing but living examples of bad planning and worse execution. Dare I say, viewing some are even trips to the legendary 11th level of Hades itself (it's where the Apple Netwon and Microsoft BOB are). We now embark on an adventure to one such server room. If you dare? View on site | 
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