News from ZDNet | | Meg Whitman's ledger: Is she up to running HP? HP has to decide whether its recent issues are about the leadership or its plan to ditch PCs and bolster software and services. Read more | Apple's iPad to have 'free run' in holiday shopping season Garter says that until Android can get its hardware, software and services act together, the tablet market belongs to Apple's iPad. Read more | Google busts itself for distributing malware Who says Google favors its own properties? When the company's Safe Browsing service checked Google.com, it found that 50 pages resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without... Read more | Verizon CEO: There will be a legit No. 3 mobile OS "Carriers are beginning to coalesce around the need for a third ecosystem," says Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. Read more | Should good leaders embrace uncertainty? At IBM's Think global leadership summit in New York, MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito urged corporate leaders to embrace serendipity. Read more | How to lead the world (in eight easy steps) What does leadership mean in an age of globalization? A panel of experts debated theory and reality at IBM's Think global leadership summit on Wednesday. Read more | Windows 8: First steps with the dual personality on tablets I installed Windows 8 on a touch tablet sold with Windows 7 onboard, and while I like the Metro interface the dual personality of the new OS is not natural. Read more | UK's delayed national health IT programme officially scrapped The UK's National Health Service is told to scrap the £11 billion IT project to centralize health and patient records, after a string of failures, over-spending and delays. Read more | Citrix Analyst Meeting - killer demo Citrix showed the power available when a supplier can deploy a well-integrated set of access virtualization, application virtualization and processing virtualization products. Read more | Up for sale Hulu: Now with more than 1 million paying subscribers Hulu has reached a crucial 1 million paid subscriber marks, but plans to sell the company appear to be unshaken. Read more | Nikon 1 ILC cameras unveiled: V1 sports small sensor, big price Nikon's flagship interchangeable lens compact camera, the new Nikon 1 V1, has a smaller sensor and lower resolution than similarly high-priced rivals, but packs the features into a small package. Read more | Why do Facebook users hate change? Facebook, as a social phenomenon, a greater oddity exists when the site changes its layout or features. Why do Facebook users hate change, or is it a wider societal problem? Read more | |  |  | About this newsletter | The Tech Sanity Check newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the people, products, and companies that are revolutionizing the planet. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief
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