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Cisco exec: Windows Vista is scary

A senior security expert at the networking giant says that aspects of Microsoft's new operating system are worrying.
Tom Espiner

Blog Focus

Trustbusters: What Apple DRM monopoly?

Apple is limiting consumer choice and foreclosing on competition in the market for rich content. So why are US antitrust officials defending this monopoly?
Focus: DRM

Webcasts

Yahoo�s chief information officer, Lars Rabbe, works in a competitive and rapidly-changing market where new ideas can affect millions of users. His current challenge: innovating around Web 2.0 and social networkingvideo

Apple iTunes debuts movies

At the Apple "Showtime" event in San Francisco on Sept. 12, 2006, CEO Jobs announced movie downloads through iTunes. He said a full-length movie could be downloaded with a half-hour for those with speedy broadband.video

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Microsoft's remarkable patent covenant

Microsoft's pledge that it won't assert Web services patents sends a signal that Redmond is prepared to change its colors and its cultures.David Berlind

TechRepublic

Job hunting? Resist the seductive allure of e-mail

E-mail may seem like an easy way to communicate about possible employment, but if you don't receive a reply there's no way to know if the other person actually interacted with your message. Read this blog to see how one job hunter dealt with this.

george ou

The Mobile Gadgeteer

Over The Horizon

Cool codes for hot chips

When will we have the computational capability to break free from today�s rather quaint applications? Sooner than most people think.Justin Rattner

Googling Google

Release 0.9

Enterprise Web 2.0

Rivals for the Web's new face

Powerful new methods for rapidly creating browser-based software promise to give Ajax some blistering competition. Here's how these RIA rivals stack up. Dion Hinchcliffe

Lawgarithms

Hardware 2.0

Microsoft Report

Yes, Microsoft really is price-gouging

Vista Mythbusters #4: Microsoft says they haven't raised prices for Windows Vista. Unless you're planning to buy Vista Ultimate edition, that is. With the highest price tag for any Windows version ever, the pricing makes no sense at all.Ed Bott

web 2.0 explorer

Google Office up close

What would a full-fledged Web Office from Google look like? Check out my image gallery for a tour of the search giant's seven office-like products.