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Editor's note: Happy Thanksgiving to my US readers! If you're looking at this email hopefully it's serving as a brief and welcome diversion. In addition to today's poll, see the news on Black Friday tech sales, 911 text messages, and gaming for charity. -Jason Poll: Nearly two-thirds will check email on Thanksgiving, will you? A new survey says 59% of Americans will check their messages from work on Thanksgiving. Will you be one of them? Take the poll. Read more Resource of the day Time to Virtualize: Get Started With this Guide Read this guide to learn the range of great benefits virtualization has to offer and get off to a quick start with VMware. Create a more robust, highly available infrastructure at a low cost that's simple to deploy and manage. 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Read more News from ZDNet   FCC looking to enhance 911 system with text, picture and video messaging The FCC is expected to discuss at its December meeting an upgrade to the 911 system that would include text, video and picture messaging capabilities. Read more The best Black Friday 2010 HDTV deal yet: $298 Panasonic 42-inch 1080p plasma at Buy.com Finally, a Black Friday HDTV sale that's worth getting up in the middle of the night for. Buy.com will be offering the Panasonic TC-P42U2 42-inch 1080p plasma for just $298 (plus free shipping) -- roughly $250 less than it's being sold for everywhere else online. This easily blows any other... Read more Should you wait until after Black Friday to buy an HDTV? We all get caught up in the deals that are on offer for Black Friday, dissecting each ad and door buster, but is this weekend really the best time to make a purchase, especially when it comes to a big-ticket item like an HDTV? There are signs that even Black... Read more Checking in with Cisco: Server business demonstrates continued momentum Richard Fichera recently met with Cisco to discuss its server business. Here are this thoughts. Read more Apple Is Enjoying Its Lunch: Tablet Roundup Redux New Android tablets are here. But it doesn't look like they're ready for prime time yet. Read more Surface computers linked via internet allow for new 'mixed-presence' collaboration Researchers at Purdue and the University of Manitoba have developed software that enables users to use tabletop-sized touch displays interactively over the Internet. Read more Borders offering e-reader deals, 50% coupon today only If you want to get your Black Friday shopping started today, you can at Borders. The book retailer giant has special prices on e-book readers plus a first-time ever 50% off coupon. Only Borders Rewards members can access the coupon, but it's still pretty nifty. But for everyone, check out... 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