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Top Editors Picks Gauging the Palm Pre's success: It'll take time Larry Dignan: Palm's long-awaited Pre device is available this weekend and the launch will be closely watched. Lines will be analyzed. Analysts will estimate sales. And the Pre will be compared to the iPhone launch repeatedly. All of those short-term mileposts will miss the big picture: Gauging the success of the Pre will be a long-term endeavor. READ FULL STORY Palm reviewers: The Pre has a puncher's chance What does a Palm Pre cost? Apparently, 1 Million Scoville Units. Palm Pre: Five reasons to expect a homerun Palm webOS touts iTunes sync, Twitter search, App Catalog Verizon Wireless CEO: Plans to offer Palm Pre (and its 'cousin') Summer soap opera: Palm Pre, Apple iPhone, Android army usher in "smart" age Sponsored Discover how you can work smarter and increase efficiency with Enterprise 2.0 Are you often bogged down by information overload and handicapped by lack access to reliable and updated source of information? Learn how you can. Snow Leopard, Windows 7: Two flavors of the same GUI? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Has Microsoft, after more than 20 years of work, finally come up with an operating system that rivals the Mac OS? Are the two just different flavors of the same GUI? READ FULL STORY Windows 7 saves Microsoft, but will it rebuild post-Vista spirit? Special Report: Windows 7 nears the finish line Windows 7 - another round of Apple vs. Microsoft Can Microsoft claw back lost market share from Apple? Snow Leopard screen shots Apple's WWDC: Wall Street expects to be underwhelmed Patch Tuesday heads-up: Critical Windows, IE fixes coming Ryan Naraine: Microsoft plans to ship 10 security bulletins next Tuesday with fixes for a wide range of code execution vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. Six of the ten bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. READ FULL STORY FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP StrongWebmail CEO's mail account hacked via XSS Typo'd Google domains in Top 10 malware exploit sites 419 scammers using NYTimes.com 'email this feature' Kojax/Kirana: What Microsoft should have announced at JavaOne Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft officials keynoted the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on June 4, and used their platform to talk up the importance of reference apps for designing for interoperability. It's a shame Microsoft didn't use the JavaOne pulpit, to show off Kojax, its still unannounced mobile AJAX platform. READ FULL STORY Microsoft at JavaOne: Today's word is interoperability Video: Microsoft's commitment to interoperability Tom Foremski: JavaOne's days are numbered Meet Project Kenai at JavaOne: Social networking for developers Sponsored Discover how you can work smarter and increase efficiency with Enterprise 2.0 Are you often bogged down by information overload and handicapped by lack access to reliable and updated source of information? Learn how you can. Computex: AMD previews first DX11 GPU, Nvidia focuses on mobile John Morris: AMD has many challenges, but lately its ATI graphics business has been on a roll. Now the company is trying to capitalize on the momentum. At Computex, AMD demonstrated the first GPU to support DirectX 11, Microsoft's next-generation graphics API. READ FULL STORY Future of netbooks, laptops unfolds at Computex Intel finally announces ULV, drops the "C" To Jim Zemlin this CompuTex represents progress Asus will launch budget O!Play media streamer at Computex Microsoft: No Windows 7 for ARM-based netbooks (for now) Microsoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy term UK retailer pulls Linux netbooks from stores Featured TalkBack Blog Time says Twitter will change our lives; I Tweeted that I puked Larry Dignan: Twitter may be doomed: TIME magazine has placed Twitter on its cover and dished out thousands of words of fluff about it. This Twitter love-fest is getting out of hand, and I'm feeling sick. I think I might puke. Maybe I'll tweet about it. 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 Dress rehearsal for Opera 10 beta Opera 10 beta is the latest incarnation of a browser that currently lags in sixth place in terms of market share. The new version, released on June 3, is based on the company's Presto 2.2 rendering engine, and introduces a new skin, visual tabs, a new compression technology, automatic updating and BitTorrent support. VIEW THE GALLERY Sony Ericsson W995a Freescale shows off 'smartbook' designs More ZDNet Photo Galleries ZDNet Reviews NEC's 43 in., 31:10 curved monitor commands $8,000 price tag Andrew Nusca: If money is no object and total immersion is your goal, NEC's CRV43 -- a 43 in. curved display with a 2880 by 900 pixel resolution -- is essential for your setup. The downside? It's $7,999. READ THE REVIEW Palm Pre (Sprint) Cool-er e-book reader More ZDNet Reviews Sign up for ZDNet's Product Watch Newsletter for the latest product reviews, news, and expert analysis	News and Blogs WSJ: Jobs ready to return to Apple Google: Enterprise business profitable; Says email migration 'proof points' building Five ways to keep the dust bunnies out of a PC Russian antitrust unit targets Microsoft over XP availability Juniper, Nokia Siemens form joint venture to target telecom carriers Want a smart meter? Try your electric bill first HTC to unveil Android-powered HTC Hero on June 24 Apple TV: Games and apps would be a tough way to gain traction Analyst says economy leading some users to bypass Office 2007 Reviewing Sapphire, user interfaces, the Devil's Triangle, and IT success Are Services lifting the economy out of the recession? Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forward Overcoming the laptop wall PSP Go coming with Bluetooth and slide-up display Most Rated Posts Snow Leopard and Windows 7: Two flavors of the same GUI? Windows 7: The incentives are coming Bartz: Bing isn't all that (and neither is a Microsoft search deal) Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac From Starter to Ultimate: What's really in each Windows 7 Edition?   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. 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