News from ZDNet | | | Mobile to the hilt: nine out of ten employees bring own technology to work, survey says Have we reached a tipping point in which the workplace has become completely inundated by mass consumer technology? Read more | | Samsung starts mass production of 'world's first' transparent LCD panel In other Samsung news, an announcement has come from headquarters in Seoul that the tech giant has commenced mass production for the "world's first" transparent LCD panels. Read more | | Apple's iPad and tablet parade will boost IT spending, says Gartner Sales of media tablets such as Apple's iPad, Samsung's Galaxy Tab and an army of other competitors from RIM, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard will give global IT spending a boost, says Gartner. Read more | | Microsoft to file antitrust complaint vs. Google in EU Microsoft will file a complaint with the European Commission alleging anticompetitive behavior in Europe's search market. Read more | | Acer CEO Lanci resigns: In search of an aggressive tablet strategy Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci resigned and Chairman J.T. Wang will take over as interim chief. Lanci apparently disagreed with Acer's board about the development and future of the company. Read more | | Facebook passes 250 million mobile users mark, overhauls mobile site Facebook is launching a new mobile site for the 250 million mobile users that use the social network on a monthly basis. Read more | | Time to celebrate World Backup Day 2011 Today is April Fools Day eve, so to speak, but among techies, it's become known as World Backup Day. If you don't want to look like a fool when your computer crashes, keep reading. Read more | | Lessons we can all learn from the false-postive 'keylogger' fiasco Yesterday a post on NetworkWorld made the false claim that Samsung was shipping notebooks infected with a keylogger. This claim has turned out to be false. So what lessons can all learn from the... Read more | | What's happened to Honeycomb? The first Android 3.0 tablet, Motorola's Xoom, has been available for more than a month now. Others companies have been talking about their Honeycomb tablets, but none are shipping in the U.S.... Read more | | All HP ePrint-enabled printers are ready for Google Cloud Print If there was actually a race, then Hewlett-Packard has beat other printer manufacturers to fully supporting Google Cloud Print. Read more | | Sharepoint: IT doesn't kill businesses, people do Sharepoint 2010 is now a credible platform player for collaboration and business social networking. The larger challenge: Changing user perceptions of what the tools are for, and what you can do... Read more | | 10.6.7 update addresses iTunes bug with 13" MacBook Air Apple yesterday released a 10.6.7 update for 13" MacBook Airs that addresses an issue that makes the system unresponsive when using iTunes. Read more | | Windows 8 M3 build contains new wallpaper, twin UI bits, and more Windows 8 information keeps trickling out slowly. Here to add to the mix is a new wallpaper and some additional information. Read more | | Baseball's Internet Opening Day It's baseball season's opening day, and thanks to MLB.TV you can watch your team's opening day almost anywhere you have a a broadband Internet connection. Read more |
Featured multimedia | | | Photos: HTC ThunderBolt, the Ferrari of smartphones The HTC ThunderBolt is the first smartphone on Verizon's 4G LTE network. This gallery includes extensive unboxing photos, comparisons with other top devices, and screenshots of 4G speedtests. View on site |  | | Acer launches dual-screen tablet-notebook The dual 14-inch touch screens make it operate like a tablet but the specs put it on par with a laptop. View on site |  | | Making amazing light art with the Kinect (photos) Artist Audrey Penven has a new gallery exhibit that showcases her images made with infrared photography of light from a Kinect. View on site |  | | 20 online topography tools for web designers Do you need help with elements of style, word spacing, font selection, vertical motion, blocks and paragraphs, line height, converting px to em, and other design details? Ryan Boudreaux presents his list of some of the best online topography tools available for web designers. Here are the first 20 with 20 more to come. View on site |  |
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