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Top Editors Picks U.S. CTO: Infrastructure growth needs private sector investment Andrew Nusca: The technology backbone of the U.S. needs a major overhaul and government alone can't do it, the nation's first CTO said today. To catch up to its global peers, the U.S. needs a massive influx of "hundreds of billions" of private capital dollars. READ FULL STORY Dion Hinchcliffe: Building a vision for Government 2.0 Dana Blankenhorn: What Chopra offers open source Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: The U.S. government, innovation and dData we can believe in Greentech Pastures: The U.S. is losing it Amazon CTO: Cloud infrastructure keeps companies focused on innovation ZDNet Government IT blog Sponsored Free White Paper: Remote Worker Risk Management Discover new strategies for protecting your remote workers from Internet threats and inappropriate Web content. Why 'Standard User' should be Windows 7 default Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Admin accounts and "low nag" UAC settings will be the default for millions of people buying Windows 7-based PCs. The problem? A code-injection vulnerability can run with admin privileges behind the user's back. Bad idea. READ FULL STORY Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows How Windows 7 UAC shapes enterprise security Ed Bott: What's really in each Windows 7 Edition? CIO Jury: Let's wait on Windows 7 Special Report: Windows 7 nears the finish line Palm Pre-cious? The good and the bad Matthew Miller: After spending a week with my new Palm Pre, how does it compare to the iPhone 3G or T-Mobile's G1? There are several things I love about the Linux-based Pre -- and a few I don't. READ FULL STORY Gallery Tour: One week with the Palm Pre Total cost and feature chart: iPhone 3G S vs. Palm Pre vs. Android G1 Evernote for Palm Pre now available Local Outlook and more syncing come to the Palm Pre Gauging the Palm Pre's success: It'll take time Jason Perlow: $99 iPhones won't improve wireless customer experience Google plugs 'high risk' WebKit holes in Chrome Ryan Naraine: Google has shipped a Chrome browser update to fix two serious security issues in WebKit. According to Google Chrome program manager Mark Larson, the most serious of the two flaws could allow hackers to execute harmful code in the browser's sandbox. It is rated "high severity." READ FULL STORY Mac OS X malware posing as fake video codec discovered Overall spam volume unaffected by 3FN/Pricewert's ISP shutdown Sponsored Free White Paper: Remote Worker Risk Management Discover new strategies for protecting your remote workers from Internet threats and inappropriate Web content. IE-free Windows 7 in Europe? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's newest proposal to the European Commission is to offer a version of Windows 7 that strips out Internet Explorer 8 -- not merely hides it, as is currently possible via a "remove features" capability. READ FULL STORY European regulators, Opera weigh in on Microsoft's Windows 7 E plan Poll: Is Microsoft's Windows 7 E a stroke of genius? 'Voting' for browser - Microsoft's worst nightmare Special Report: Windows 7 nearing the finish line Microsoft doesn't win at everything EC software law could divide open source Fight Windows tax with a penguin stick Dana Blankenhorn: Make your netbook a real PC for no money down. Avoid the Windows Tax and upgrade your performance. It may be OK for Linux to be invisible, but it's not necessary. READ FULL STORY Sorry Linux but the chicken came first CompuTex: In netbook market, Wintel monopoly healthier than ever Linux and the channel Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's netbook dance Microsoft: No more three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter Edition Featured TalkBack Blog Free AV from Microsoft: It's about time Christopher Dawson: I find the standard suites from McAfee and Norton to be incredibly intrusive and, obviously, in an academic setting, quite expensive. Microsoft's plans to offer a free, "web-based" antivirus named Morro is welcome news. 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 AMD grabs "impressive" market share from Intel in Q1 "If you look at benchmarks of comparable AMD and Intel rigs, there is no advantage to AMD." -- CTRLurself CIO Jury: Let's wait on Windows 7 "No surprise. It would be foolish to roll out a new OS to an organization without testing." -- ye Elsewhere on ZDNet Photo Gallery 11 smart tech toys that deserve your dollars If you buy one tech toy at full price, which is worth your hard-earned--and possibly scarce--cash? Which will pay you back over the years? This photo gallery of top-value tech points you in the right direction. VIEW THE GALLERY Hands-on with the Motorola Rival messaging phone Cool-er e-book reader has value, barebones appeal More ZDNet Photo Galleries ZDNet Reviews Toshiba announces its first LED-backlit LCD HDTVs Sean Portnoy: LCDs using LEDs instead of fluorescent tubes for backlighting are the wave of the future for the HDTV industry. Their superior contrast ratio and lower power requirements are the perfect answer to plasma's image quality advantage and energy-slurping tendencies. Samsung and Sony were first, but now Toshiba has introduced its Regza SV670. READ THE REVIEW RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 JVC Everio GZ-MS120 More ZDNet Reviews Sign up for ZDNet's Product Watch Newsletter for the latest product reviews, news, and expert analysis	News and Blogs Yahoo names Tim Morse as new CFO Palm hopes high with Rubinstein at the helm iPhone 3G S specs revealed: 600 MHz and 256 MB of RAM Samsung debuts retro-styled WB1000 digital camera with AMOLED Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro disassembled: what's inside? The new Archos3 8GB MP3 player Six awesome photo-related apps for the iPhone Why SOA really, really matters in a cloud computing world John Peavoy: the best salesperson Salesforce never had The irony of a cloud knocking out Amazon's EC2 cloud services IBM expects Linux to make money AOL sees future in local; announces two acquisitions AMD uses Radian6 as a preferred 'listening' engine Most Rated Posts Safari 4 - "The world's fastest browser" ... NOT! AT&T: The iPhone's anchor Allowing users to 'vote' for browsers could be Microsoft's worst nightmare Apple introduces the iPhone 3GS, drops price on 3G to $99 iPhone Software 3.0: Outrage climbs over missing AT&T support for new iPhone features   Videos and Podcasts WWDC 2009: Apple unveils iPhone 3G S At Apple's WWDC in San Francisco, Apple's SVP of marketing, Philip Schiller, shows off a new, speedier iPhone. The iPhone 3G S features a 3-megapixel camera and can shoot video at 30 frames per second. The phone is available next week in the U.S and some other countries. PLAY VIDEO WWDC 2009: Apple previews Safari 4 At Apple's WWDC in San Francisco, the company's VP of Mac OS engineering, Craig Federighi, shows off improved features of Safari 4, including faster display speeds and full history search. PLAY VIDEO A look at high-speed autonomous driving At JavaOne in San Francisco, Calif., Volkswagen's Marcial Hernandez and Sun's Greg Bollella detail Project Bixby, an Audi TTS programmed by Volkswagen and using a Java runtime environment. The vehicle will then be raced on a Rally course against other automated vehicles. PLAY VIDEO WWDC 2009: Apple highlights Snow Leopard features At Apple's WWDC in San Francisco, the company's SVP of Mac OS engineering, Craig Federighi, demos the Snow Leopard version of the operating system. For current Leopard users, the new OS--due in September--will be upgradable for $29. PLAY VIDEO WWDC 2009: New 15-inch MacBook Pro revealed At Apple's WWDC in San Francisco, Apple's vice president of product marketing, Philip Schiller, shows off the company's latest MacBook Pro. The new notebook has a 3.06GHz processor, a unibody architecture, and a built-in lithium polymer battery. Schiller adds that customers shouldn't need to change battery in a notebook at all in five years. PLAY VIDEO Play more video and audio New Technologies Sponsored White papers Free White Paper: Remote Worker Risk Management Discover new strategies for protecting your remote workers from Internet threats and inappropriate Web content. Managing Entitlements in a Windows Environment In this white paper, see how managing entitlements is the key to securing your network resources, and how you can simply and confidently complete this process. (Quest Software) Not Just Words: Enforce your email and Web acceptable usage policies Use this whitepaper as a guide on how to develop and enforce Email and Web Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs), and avoid costly risks to your business. 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