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• Nikon D90 Reviewed: Great image quality and performance. Video mode? Not so hot

  DPReview and PhotographyBlog both posted full, hands-on reviews of the Nikon D90 yesterday. The general consensus among the reviewers (including our sister site CNET's Lori Grunin who posted her review ...

  Tags: Performance, DPReview, Video, Marketing, CNET Networks Inc., Corporate Communications, Camera, Nikon Corp., Janice Chen, Lens

  Oct 14, 2008 6:00 AM PDT

• Starcraft II splits into trilogy

  At Blizzcon 2008, Blizzard revealed that rather than a single real-time strategy game, Starcraft II will now be released as a trilogy. ANAHEIM, California--For many, this morning's keynote address from ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, video games, Starcraft. Blizzard, Games, Gamespot, Rob Pardo

  Oct 14, 2008 5:34 AM PDT

• Top Digger helps launch Tip'd, a Digg clone for financial news

  Tip'd, which launched today, describes itself as "a place for investors... to meet, share, discuss, comment, and vote on what's happening on both Wall Street and Main Street." Essentially, it's ...

  Tags: Financial, Digg, Site, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tip'd, Steve O\'Hear, Social Media

  Oct 14, 2008 5:01 AM PDT

• Dell negotiations: Street ball without the refs

  Negotiating hardware deals with Dell isn't for everybody. In fact dealing with Dell can be downright difficult relative to other hardware vendors. That takeaway came from Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering's ...

  Tags: Pricing, Dell Computer Corp., Finance, Larry Dignan, Marketing, Free Trade, Negotiation

  Oct 14, 2008 5:00 AM PDT

• Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare next

  The Internet has killed the basic economics of the media industry and healthcare and the financial services industry may be next. That's the message from one of Gartner's so-called "maverick" ...

  Tags: Financial Services, Vertical Industries, Gartner Inc., Enterprise Software, Financial Service, Industry, Human Resources, Media, Healthcare, Finance

  Oct 14, 2008 3:08 AM PDT

• Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emails

  It's been a source of contention on this blog and others whether Sarah Palin used her Yahoo accounts for any state business, or whether it was all family pictures and ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Online Communications, Richard Koman, E-mail

  Oct 14, 2008 3:02 AM PDT

• You know a trend has gotten broad when..

  The New York Times, a well-known font of information in the area of information technology, published Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server, an article by Ashlee Vance ...

  Tags: Management, Dan Kusnetzky, New York Times Co., Strategy, Hardware, Virtualization, Desktops

  Oct 14, 2008 3:00 AM PDT

• News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV

  Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over ...

  Tags: Management, OpenOffice, Information Technology, Strategy, Facebook, Microsoft Windows, HDTV, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc.

  Oct 14, 2008 2:00 AM PDT

• Still pushing the obvious: Sun Ray

  Can a million blonds really be wrong? How about fifty million corporate IT users? by Paul Murphy

  Tags: Laptop Computer, Hardware, Notebooks, Sun Microsystems Inc., Notebooks & Tablets, Productivity, Desktops, Thin Clients, Sun Ray, Computer

  Oct 14, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement

  (Update: It also looks like you can grab the final bits as of 12:01 this morning: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?v=2.0) After listening to the Q&A from the press conference today recording here, digging ...

  Tags: Java Development Tools, Ryan Stewart, Numbers Game, Software Development, Development Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, Linux, Operating Systems, Eclipse, Open Source

  Oct 14, 2008 12:01 AM PDT

• Stealth Company decloaks... as Siri

  Silicon Valley stealth-mode startup, Stealth Company, revealed a little more about itself overnight and rebranded as Siri. Stealth Company's website has proved vague at best over the past few months, ...

  Tags: Siri, Management, CALO, Tools & Techniques, Software, SRI International, Paul Miller

  Oct 13, 2008 10:31 PM PDT

• Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers

  It seems that not a day goes by without a new media alert regarding bad things in the chinese supply chain. First it was lead in our toys, then it ...

  Tags: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Adam O\'Donnell, Network Technology, Router, Routers & Switches, Networking, Software, Enterprise Software

  Oct 13, 2008 9:58 PM PDT

• And speaking of Sun Microsystems

  Sun Microsystems is not a name we often associate with education outside of high-end technical fields at the university level. Of course, Sun is responsible for OpenOffice and has recently ...

  Tags: K-12, Christopher Dawson, Hardware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization

  Oct 13, 2008 9:52 PM PDT

• Citrix makes "Kensho" preview available

  Citrix has delivered a technical preview of a toolkit that allows developers to create and deploy OVF-based virtual appliances that run on multiple virtualization hypervisors. The toolkit, which was introduced ...

  Tags: Cloud Computing, Citrix Systems Inc., Hardware, Hypervisor, Virtualization, Paula Rooney

  Oct 13, 2008 9:42 PM PDT

• Zmanda launches open source backup, recovery solutions for Windows

  Open source backup and recovery independent software developer ISV Zmanda formally announced two new products tailored for Windows users. Zmanda, of Sunnyvale, Calif. announced Zmanda Recovery Manager Enterprise Version 3.0 ...

  Tags: Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Recovery Solution, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Databases, Open Source, Software

  Oct 13, 2008 9:16 PM PDT

• LG introduces Wirewize remote pay home theater tech support

  Best Buy must get some huge margins from its Geek Squad tech support service, because it seems like everyone wants to copy that model of overcharging noobs for help with ...

  Tags: Cable, Personal Technology, Wirewize, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy, Home Theater, LG Electronics Inc., Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater

  Oct 13, 2008 8:53 PM PDT

• OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enough

  There is a reason that the OpenOffice.org 3.0 servers are struggling to keep up with demand. OO.org 3.0 really is a serious upgrade over version 2.4 and makes NeoOffice irrelevant ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Operating Systems, Christopher Dawson, Open Source, OO.org 3.0, Microsoft Office, Software

  Oct 13, 2008 7:48 PM PDT

• Windows 7 will be called... Windows 7

  It's official. The final name of the product codenamed "Windows 7" will be "Windows 7." by Mary Jo Foley

  Tags: Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 13, 2008 7:38 PM PDT

• LaCie's 5big Network offers five drive bays, up to 7.5TB storage

  LaCie is bringing its distinctive aesthetic sense to small business networked storage with its new 5big Network device, which offers—surprise—five drive bays and up to a whopping 7.5 terabytes of ...

  Tags: Sean Portnoy, Network, Hardware, LaCie, RAID, Storage

  Oct 13, 2008 4:53 PM PDT

• And Windows 7 is to be called ... Windows 7

  Microsoft puts us out all of out misery as to what the next version of Windows will be called - Windows 7. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 13, 2008 4:21 PM PDT

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