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News from ZDNet | | | The List of iPad Deployments by Enterprises, Schools is Up to 240 The list of iPad deployments in businesses and schools continues to grow - fast. Read more | | Which Analysts Are The Most (and Least) Bullish on the Tablet Market? (Charts) Curious whether Gartner, IDC, Morgan Stanley, In-Stat, or some other market research firm has the biggest crush on the tablet market? Then you've come to the right place! I gathered up all of the publicly-known forecasts from the leading market researchers and did as much numbercrunching and chartmaking as my... Read more | | Dell dumps BlackBerry, but let's put this in perspective While it's tempting to do yet another death of RIM story, Dell's move is more about salesmanship than some broad message about the fate of the BlackBerry. Read more | | Hands-on with the T-Mobile HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 smartphone Windows Phone 7 devices hit the AT&T and T-Mobile stores on Monday, 8 November, and the best one for T-Mobile may just be the HTC HD7. This familiar form factor brings Windows Phone 7 in a high quality package. Read more | | Google vs. Facebook in API scrum: Why can't we all just be reciprocal? Google tweaked its terms of service for its contacts application programming interface and sent Facebook a message. Turns out Google will only enable contact data to be exported if the party on the other end is reciprocal. Read more | | IBM survey: social, mobile, cloud are high risk, SOA low risk Private clouds make IT executives nervous about security, but SOA and virtualization seem 'safe' Read more | | Internet Explorer 8 malware filtering problem hits users across the Web A problem with the Microsoft SmartScreen malware-thwarting technology in Internet Explorer 8 rendered countless users unable to access all kinds of sites throughout the day on November 4. Read more | | What would a Kinectified PC look like? On November 4, Microsoft began selling its Kinect sensors for Xbox at retail. Gamers -- and those with a hidden inner gamer just waiting to break free without a controller -- your star ship has arrived. But what about those of us who don't care about gaming? Read more | | IBM seeks to reduce potential for human error in power outages Here's something I've never really thought about at length: You know that puzzled feeling you get when your power goes out in the middle of a beautiful autumn day, when the air is crisp and still. Apparently, quite a few outages aren't acts of nature, they are acts of mis-communication... Read more | | Teachers: Please stop prohibiting the use of Wikipedia Banning Wikipedia? You're doing students a disservice. Read more | | Robots speak up and defend global warming This is a guest post by Jason Rothman. He has been posting a lot lately on my blog, and you guys seem to be happy with it, so here's another post! When I was five, my parents took me to a fair where I played tic-tac-toe with a chicken and... Read more | | Time Warner CEO: New movies to your living room for $50 by mid-2011 Movie studios have been vague about their plans to offer new films in homes via video on demand, but Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes has recently detailed his company's vision for the service. Bewkes says that Time Warner movies that are still in theaters will be offered in living rooms... Read more |
Featured multimedia | | | Ocean power dips its toes in water (photos) There is a wide range of different technologies to harvest energy from the waves and tides. Here are a few of the leading contenders. View on site |  | | Chiller Theatre: Toy, Model, and Film Expo celebrates 20th anniversary The Chiller Theatre Toy, Model, and Film Expo celebrated its 20th anniversary Oct. 29-31, 2010. The event hosted celebrities from the Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy genres and featured live music, model, artwork, and costume contests, and more. Take a look at these photos from Chiller Theatre. View on site |  | | Favorite IT jokes submitted by the TR community On October 7, 2010, Senior Editor Sonja Thompson posted the following question on TechRepublic's Facebook page: "What's your favorite IT joke? Please keep it clean, folks." Here are a few cartoon illustrations of their responses. View on site |  | | Apple MacBook Air Teardown (13-inch 2010) Bill Detwiler cracks open the redesigned 2010 13-inch MacBook Air. See the hardware inside Apple's ultra-thin notebook. View on site |  | | Desktop Wallpaper: Horses, horse racing, and horse farms On November 5th and 6th, TechRepublic's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky is hosting the 2010 Breeder's Cup races, which makes it a perfect time to honor the majestic horse so important to this state. View on site |  |
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