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Top Editors Picks AT&T: The iPhone's anchor Sam Diaz: Backstage at Apple's WWDC keynote, execs might have been chuckling at the Microsoft jokes but turning red when the roars of laughter erupted from the audience every time AT&T was mentioned. In all honesty, it was awkwardly embarrassing for the company. READ FULL STORY iPhone Software 3.0: Outrage climbs over missing AT&T support for new iPhone features WWDC 2009: The official play-by-play liveblog WWDC '09 video: 15-inch MacBook Pro WWDC '09 video: $99 iPhone WWDC '09 video: Snow Leopard Apple introduces the iPhone 3GS, drops price on 3G to $99 Apple feels economic pinch, drops prices Sponsored Free White Paper: Remote Worker Risk Management Discover new strategies for protecting your remote workers from Internet threats and inappropriate Web content. Apple Safari jumbo patch: 50+ vulnerabilities fixed Ryan Naraine: Apple has shipped a whopper of a Safari browser update to fix more than 50 vulnerabilities, some rated extremely critical. The latest fixes correct a wide range of code execution and denial-of-service vulnerabilities and even comes with a fix for the vexing "clickjacking" issues plaguing modern Web browsers. READ FULL STORY Patch Tuesday: Critical Windows, IE fixes coming Malware poses as fake Yellowsn0w iPhone unlocker FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP Forget the iPhone: Palm targets RIM, business customers with Pre Andrew Nusca: Few business customers look to Apple's iPhone as the solution for the enterprise. Whatever the reason, the new Palm Pre smartphone is seen as the strongest challenger yet to the iPhone crown. But make no mistake: it's not the iPhone Palm executives want to dethrone. It's the BlackBerry. READ FULL STORY News without numbers: Sprint says Pre set sales record Sam Diaz: Apple goes after business; watch out Palm, RIM, Microsoft Larry Dignan: Analysts deem Palm launch a success; Pre inventory replenishment eyed Matthew Miller: Palm Pre Calendar application is weak Allowing users to 'vote' for browsers could be Microsoft's worst nightmare Mary Jo Foley: There have been a couple of leaks in the ongoing Microsoft antitrust trial in Europe that could spell bad news for the Softies: namely, a screen that allows users to pick a default browser at installation. READ FULL STORY Fighting off antitrust, Google says it's not dominant Russian antitrust unit targets Microsoft over XP availability Feds to probe tech hiring practices Sponsored Live Virtual Conference: Lowering datacenter costs through server refresh Discover how today's newest generation of rack servers provide extreme performance?along with dramatically reduced IT costs. (IBM) Invisible Linux Dana Blankenhorn: You need no longer care about your operating system. You don't buy an operating system. You buy a gadget that runs a program. The gadget and its software are one unit. I call this Invisible Linux. READ FULL STORY OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time Wind River: Tasty Embedded Linux Treat Sorry Linux but the chicken came first Linux and the channel LaCinema Classic Bridge turns your hard drive into a media player Sean Portnoy: LaCie is going help you out with media files that you already have on your existing storage drives. The new LaCinema Classic Bridge serves as a conduit between your hard drive and an HDTV via HDMI. READ FULL STORY LaCie introduces 500GB, 1TB wireless HD media players LaCie debuts 10TB 5big Network NAS RAID; updated 2big Network device Vizio reveals 31 new HDTVs for 2009 lineup, from $249 to $2,199 Pioneer sets trio of Blu-ray players loose; $299 to $599 Digital TV conversion figures: 5 percent switch to cable, 8 percent buy new HDTV Featured TalkBack Blog Did Cisco Misstep with its SMB Play? David Greenfield: Cisco's small business play was more than just an announcement of four new infrastructure and communication products. It's a reaffirmation of a basic tenet for Cisco drive value into the SMB's underlying data networks by enabling more applications to share that network. That?s a smart strategy. But is it risky? READ FULL BLOG What do you think? Do companies own work-related data on your own personal computer? Post Your Thoughts in TalkBack Reader TalkBacks Why Does IT Hate Facebook and Twitter? "All these services are good for is wasting your time." -- bjbrock Palm reviewers: The Pre has a puncher's chance "The "card" system is a step backwards." -- storm14k Elsewhere on ZDNet Photo Gallery Snow Leopard at WWDC Among the news and announcements at the WWDC Keynote, Apple previewed the next iteration of Mac OS X Leopard. Snow leopard, as Mac OS X 10.6 is known, packs a lot of new features and is slated for release in September. VIEW THE GALLERY Photos: Live from WWDC 2009 keynote WWDC 2009: Apple Revamps Its Laptop Line More ZDNet Photo Galleries ZDNet Reviews Panasonic debuts 'world's lightest' HD camcorders Andrew Nusca: The bane of every digital camcorder owner's existence is hand fatigue. No matter how compact a digital camcorder is, the heft makes documenting your kid's school play considerably less appealing. Panasonic has announced the release of two of the world's lightest HD camcorders, both a svelte half-pound each. READ THE REVIEW Palm Pre (Sprint) Sony STR-DH700 7.1 AV receiver More ZDNet Reviews Sign up for ZDNet's Product Watch Newsletter for the latest product reviews, news, and expert analysis	News and Blogs HP, Intel, Yahoo collaborate on cloud computing Microsoft exec shares some of the method behind the Windows 7 pricing madness Opera Mobile 9.7 beta now available for WM devices Computex attendance falls, but Android 'coming out party' succeeds Sager NP9280 has Core i7, triple SSDs; world's most powerful laptop A-DATA's NH92 'world's slimmest' portable HDD Acer to launch 3D notebook at end of October Heads up! Interactive data eyeglasses Schwarzenegger "terminates" spending: Kindle for every California student? Reconciling social computing with the enterprise Cut. Scan. Read. Join the move to SmartPlanet Most Rated Posts Will the Windows 7 price be right? Palm Pre weekend: Sprint could steal Palm's moment Best Buy memo details Microsoft Win 7 upgrade program, upgrade pricing The problem with XP ... Snow Leopard and Windows 7: Two flavors of the same GUI?   Videos and Podcasts Sony Ericsson unveils app store Sony Ericsson's Rikko Sakaguchi and Christoper David tell an audience at JavaOne in San Francisco that the company will join the app store crowd. Customers will be able to download utilities, tools, and games to their phones. PLAY VIDEO All things Microsoft: Windows 7, Bing, and 'pink phone' ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley and Sumi Das talk about Microsoft's latest announcements around its new OS, search, and mobile. Foley says Bing and Windows 7 are getting most of the press as of late, but it's really Windows Mobile 7 that could cause the biggest stir when it launches next Spring. PLAY VIDEO Project Kenai at JavaOne At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Robert Brewin, CTO for Sun Microsystems, and John Brock, part of the Connected Developer Team for Project Kenai, demonstrate how developers will be able to use this new site to gain visibility, collaborate, and connect on projects over the Internet. PLAY VIDEO Java founder and Sun CEO preview new Java app store At JavaOne in San Francisco, Calif., Sun fellow James Gosling, and Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz demo Sun's new online store. The new Java store will distribute and sell mobile apps based on the Java programming language. PLAY VIDEO Ellison and McNealy: Java here to stay At JavaOne in San Francisco, Calif., Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy about the future of Java development. Ellison says he will continue to expand investment in Java and sees the programming language being used in a variety of devices including Google's Android phones and Netbooks. 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