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Due to the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the U.S., we are sending you Friday's edition of ZDNet's Week in Review today. ZDNet Week in Review will resume its regular publication schedule Friday, December 02, 2011.

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Between the Lines

HP's future: All eyes on the outlook for 2012

Wall Street expects HP CEO Meg Whitman to cut the outlook for 2012, but analysts are increasingly betting that the guidance won’t be a total trainwreck.

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Amazon Kindle Fire poised to be No. 2 in tablets, says ChangeWave

Amazon’s Kindle Fire is disrupting the tablet market, according to a ChangeWave survey. The ROI case is simple: Parents want a tablet that’s inexpensive and can play app for the kids.

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Zero Day

SCADA systems at the Water utilities in Illinois, Houston, hacked

According to reports, the SCADA systems at the Water utilities in Illinois, Houston were recently hacked by a malicious attacker using the handle “pr0f”.

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SaaS Saves Money & Improves Operations: TCO and ROI Calculations Help Make the Case

This white paper takes you through the total cost of ownership and return on investment figures one can experience when using an SaaS model for the computing needs at your business.

Companies

 
All About Microsoft

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to take the stand in Novell-Microsoft trial

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates may take the stand this week in an ongoing Novell vs. Microsoft antitrust case involving events that happened in the mid-1990s. Yawn.

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Googling Google

Google Music: It should be the record player, not the record store

Google couldn’t leave well enough alone and had to jump into the music store business to accompany the music player.

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The Apple Core

Tactical shopping with Black Friday apps for iOS

A pair of iOS apps that can help you make the most out of Black Friday.

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Operating Systems

 
The Ed Bott Report

Can Microsoft cure PC makers of the crapware habit?

It’s easy for an OEM to screw up a new Windows PC. Just add enough trialware and throw in a few unnecessary programs, and the customer gets a miserable out-of-box experience. Microsoft is trying to fix that with its Signature PC initiative. Does it work? And can it scale?

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Linux and Open Source

Five Gifts for Linux Lovers

Know someone who really likes Linux? These gifts might hit the spot for this holiday season.

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Tech Broiler

Amazon's Kindle Fire: The tablet's Volkswagen moment

The Amazon Kindle Fire will be known as the device that ushered in the tablet that was made and priced for everyone.

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ZDNet Industries

 
ZDNet Government

David's guide to surviving Thanksgiving

Learn about dark meat turkey, Jedi family management skills, and a little tech. Plus some tips about how to have and enjoy a non-traditional holiday.

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ZDNet Education

Kindle Fire: Edu holy grail or one more DRM-ridden toy?

We’re so close I can taste it. But the business models and content just aren’t there yet.

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ZDNet Health

Personal Thanksgiving Dinner Coach for your iPhone

A free iPhone app that walks you through making Thanksgiving dinner is something to be thankful for.

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Web 2.0

 
SEO Whistleblower

Social burnout: I am officially sick and tired of chasing social platforms

Ugh, not another friggin’ social media/networking/bookmarking platform… Just shoot me now!

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Social Business

Google+ finally launches Business Pages, now what?

Google has finally released Google+ Business Pages. Now, just like Google+ itself, we need to figure out the value of these pages for, well, business.

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Gamification

What gamification can learn from the holiday season’s biggest games

Adding game-like elements to your product or service isn’t just about slapping a badge notifications all over everything. The key metric should always be to actually create an experience that provides real game play and, most importantly, fun — even if it’s in the service of a greater goal, whether [...]

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iGeneration

UC Davis: Official 'spin' crumbles in the face of "too many videos"

UC Davis’ pepper-spray videos have gone viral around the web, proving citizen journalism can allow us to form our own views of raw footage collected in the thick of it.

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Emerging Markets

 
India IT

Indian govt. servers compromised and used against China

Disturbing claims from sources within India’s National Informatics Center (NIC) say that the government’s IT infrastructure has been compromised by foreign elements and used to attack China.

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Enterprise Corner

 

Burnette: Kindle Fire first impressions: Wow!

 

Virtualization: The attitude of gratitude

 

Wainewright: Enterprise software pivots to new stacks

 

SOA: Apple App Store as developer business model

 

Marks: Collaborative networks: Never mistake a clear view for a short distance...

 

Gardner: HP experts to explore advances in service and support for highly virtualized VMware data center environments

 

Five Nines: Open Source management gains traction in the Microsoft cloud

 

GreenTech: Egads, get ready for 'Green Tuesday' holiday shopping

 

Foremski: Bring back high-tech manufacturing to US says MIT president

 

Howlett: Innojam, DemoJam, Train Race, SIT: the innovations SAP might miss?

 

IT Failures: Intuit: Pain and pleasure in the cloud



Featured Photo Gallery

 

Ten epic Windows 7 pranks you absolutely must try

Ready to get your prank on? This isn't your average, run-of-the-mill Windows prank list, so pull up a chair and stay a while!

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The tastiest tech turkeys of 2011
Facebook's bad year: The beginning of the end?
Best gifts for under $50

Featured Video

 

Google rolls out music service to masses

At a Google press event in Los Angeles, the company officially launches its music service and store.

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PARC scientist recalls Jobs' famous Xerox visits
The story behind Apple's NeXT OS in 1996
United States CIO: Innovation is an endless resource

Hardware Corner

 

The Toybox: Pre-Black Friday deals worth getting now

 

Hardware 2.0: Here's why Lenovo's new Android 5-incher is a 'tablet'

 

Smartphones: Is the Amazon penny smartphone sale too good to be true?

 

Computers: Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook gets Intel Core i7 CPU, SSD: $1,299

 

Mobile: Consider the Nook Simple Touch or Kobo eReader Touch for your ebook gifts

 

Cameras: Top five Black Friday digital camera deals (some up to 50% off)

 

Home Theater: Target adds more HDTV doorbuster deals to its Black Friday ad

 

Networking: Google Music: Your Great Music Locker in the Cloud (Review)

 

Emerging Tech: Great Debate: Reflections on a paperless society


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