News from ZDNet | | | Dell's 10-inch Windows 7 tablet won't debut until fall Dell recently announced that it would launch a 10-inch tablet to compliment its 5- and 7-inch slates. However, it looks like we'll have to wait a bit. Read more | | Cisco's Chambers: 'We have lost some of the credibility' Cisco CEO John Chambers said the company has a good strategy, but has lost is way and confused its employees. The upshot is that Cisco plans "a number of targeted moves in the coming weeks." Read more | | The Commodore 64 is back! Don't panic! It isn't 1982 and that homemade time machine you've been working on hasn't started working. It might not be the 1980s, but that doesn't stop Commodore bringing back and updated... Read more | | Generation Y: The IT departments' worst nightmare? Some say the Generation Y are social trendsetters. Forrester seems to think otherwise. And, as per usual, I think differently too. Read more | | Gen Y and IT management: It's not all that complicated Forrester finds that Generation Y has a relatively favorable opinion of business tech. What does that mean for the enterprise 2.0 barbarians at the gate? Read more | | Malicious download protection coming to Google Chrome Google Chrome has always offered users the Safe Browsing feature that protected them from malicious websites, but now Google is planning to take that further with malicious downloads protection... Read more | | Cisco rolls out family of Linksys E-Series routers; starts at $59.95 Cisco has unveiled a quintet of new Linksys Wireless-N routers under the E-Series umbrella intended for home entertainment and office spaces. Read more | | Dell guns for Intel upgrade time-to-market edge Intel launched the latest Xeon server chips, the "Westmere-Ex" versions, and Dell is aiming to hit the gas to garner more server upgrades. Read more | | Oracle: 40% Sun hardware slide. Thin end of the wedge? How much is Oracle's Sun business under threat? The number give strong clues but is this all we can surmise?. Read more | | VMware assimilates Mozy backup service VMware, best know for its virtualization software, is taking over Mozy enterprice/consumer data backup service, further cementing the company's cloud aspirations. Read more | | SugarCRM integrates with IBM/Lotus, Oracle, Amazon, iPad, Android etc SugarCRM debuts new integration with IBM/Lotus, Oracle, Amazon Web Services, Cisco WebMeeting, Citrix Go-to-Meeting, Facebook, Twitter, iPad, Android, Blackberry and 8 new languages Read more | | Goodbye social media... welcome back mass-media Social media has gone away and become 'social distribution of mass media...' Read more | | Nook NYT subscribers will also access NYTimes.com for free Not to be outdone by Amazon, Barnes & Noble has announced that Nook owners who subscribe to The New York Times with their e-book readers will also get unlimited access to NYTimes.com. Read more | | Microsoft hands out Xbox Development Kit with Sidecar attachment Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox Development Kit, and it's also coming with a little helper referred to as the Sidecar. Read more |
Featured multimedia | | | Apple MacBook Pro Quad-core i7 teardown Bill Detwiler cracks open the 2011 Apple MacBook Pro. This series notebook sports an Intel Quad-Core Intel i7 CPU, AMD Radeon HD 6490M GPU, 150GB Toshiba SSD, and 4GB of RAM. View on site |  | | Screenshots: Give every window in Windows 7 a tabbed user interface In this edition of the Windows Desktop report, Greg Shultz introduces you to WindowTabs and shows you how to configure the application to add a tabbed interface to Windows Explorer. View on site |  | | Anaerobic digester turns waste to biogas (photos) Five small family dairy farms in Massachusetts will use manure and food waste to make biogas to consume waste and generate revenue. View on site |  | | Images from the Kepler, Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer space telescopes This gallery features images from the Kepler Space Telescope, as well as images from other space telescopes -- specifically, Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer -- that offer valuable insight into the Kepler research project's objective. View on site |  |
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