News from ZDNet | | | Study: US government spends $36 billion a year maintaining legacy systems Unisys/MeriTalk survey finds four out of five government IT executives are worried about the ability of their agencies to deliver information, but only one out of three are fully engaged in modernization. Read more | | HP/Palm webOS tablets could start shipping in March Yesterday we got a sneak peek at the new HP/Palm webOS tablets, and those slates might start shipping as soon as March. Read more | | Hurdle to webOS Tablet Adoption: No Kindle App HP/Palm is getting set to unveil the anticipated line of webOS tablets in just a few weeks, but there's something missing that is going to impact adoption. Read more | | Dell schedules 'business' event for February 8 Dell has called a meeting in San Francisco on February 8, and it "means business." Read more | | Zoho launches Books to round out its suite, targets QuickBooks Zoho launched Zoho Books, an application that is aimed at Intuit's QuickBooks franchise and rounds out its suite of applications. Read more | | Microsoft and HP roll out joint application-appliance roadmap A year ago, Microsoft and HP announced a three-year, $250 million partnership to deliver jointly developed "application solutions" and hardware-software appliances. On January 19, 2011, the pair went public with plans for a handful of the turnkey products resulting from the deal. Read more | | Microsoft readies more West Coast retail stores Microsoft is opening another retail store in California, company officials said today. The new Microsoft store will be in Costa Mesa, Calif., at the South Coast Plaza Shopping Center -- where Apple already has a store. Read more | | Android stomps Nokia's X7 at AT&T Nokia will pull its X7 smartphone launch at AT&T on concerns that it wouldn't get enough subsidy and marketing help to be a success. Read more | | Acer will not be phasing out netbooks for tablets Someone must have spoken a little too soon. Acer is now going on the defensive that the computer manufacturer is definitely not phasing out netbooks for tablets. At least not yet! Read more | | Can "vapor" tablets compete with iPad? Let's wait and see When Apple COO Tim Cook was asked yesterday about the flood of tablet computers that were showcased at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, his reply really resonated. Read more | | Android Virtualization: It's Time With device update lag seemingly becoming an epidemic on the Android platform, there's only one answer to nip this problem in the bud once and for all: Virtualization. Read more | | Datacenter power options keep growing With the datacenter moving towards on-demand, fully configurable, highly efficient power models, how many different types of physical power distruibution units will you need? Read more | | Chrome's love of WebM and hatred of H.264 has nothing to do with YouTube The decision of the Google Chrome team to dump support for the H.264 video codec has nothing to do with YouTube, so says Guardian's Charles Arthur. Read more | | Did Apple reverse its stance on nudity for Playboy? So, Steve Jobs goes on medical leave and Apple begins allowing porn (albeit soft core) into the App Store? Does Steve know about this? Read more | | Chrysler teams with EPA on hybrid hydraulic technology For those soccer-mom-driven families who just can't or won't give up minivans -- no matter how eco-minded they are -- here's some interesting news. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Chrysler are working together to design a minivan that will use hybrid technology that is supposed to increase fuel efficiency... Read more |
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