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Must-Read News Stories What's really in each Windows 7 Edition? Ed Bott: Microsoft has put together a basic feature set that actually makes sense, with a consistent upgrade strategy to move between versions based on your requirements and your budget. That's a huge improvement over the practically incomprehensible Vista feature list. From Starter to Ultimate, here's what you'll find in each edition of Windows 7. READ FULL STORY Special Report: Windows 7 nears the finish line Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month Are you ready to ditch XP for Windows 7? Windows 7: The incentives are coming Why are we surprised Windows 7 is so good? 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. Dirty Dozen? Greenpeace rates IT firms' green IQ James Farrar: Greenpeace launches its inaugural ranking of the top 12 tech firms' performance on climate change. But is the group's effort aimed more at leveraging political influence than encouraging IT innovation? READ FULL STORY IBM win: University will invest in $12.4M green data center Dell tops new corporate sustainability index Step-by-step guide for greening your IT Sun & Symantec: A new breed of sustainability leadership? Oracle & Google: Of goats, grids and GRI This Week's Highlights 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. Google Wave: The enterprise implications Dion Hinchcliffe: Google has launched many communication services yet none before Wave have had such obvious business utility or attempted to reinvent the collaborative process from the ground-up. Will Wave really have much impact on businesses? You might be surprised at the answers. READ FULL STORY The year of the shift to Enterprise 2.0 Google Wave: Surfing the future of collaboration Mary Jo Foley: With Wave, did Google jump the (Microsoft) shark? Gallery: Google Wave rolls into action Sam Diaz: Google Wave is still a work in progress Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Wave -- or Wiki? Apple's WWDC: Wall Street expects to be underwhelmed Larry Dignan: Apple analysts are expecting the company's developer powwow to be a ho-hum affair to Wall Street types -- and potentially a negative. In other words, no surprises with new iPhones or a Steve Jobs appearance. READ FULL STORY Video: A sneak preview of WWDC 2009 Seb Janacek: Predictions for Apple's WWDC Gallery: Prep for Apple's WWDC 2009 begins Gearing up for Apple's WWDC: Don't forget about the apps New iPhone rumors mapped out Windows 7: The incentives are coming Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and its partners are experiencing the lull just before the arrival of the next big thing - Windows 7. But now they're preparing some new consumer and business incentives to keep the pipeline primed. READ FULL STORY Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month With date set, when's the best time to buy a new PC? Windows 7 to open another round in Apple-Microsoft rivalry Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ready to ditch XP for Windows 7? Why Windows 7's netbook success isn't a slam-dunk No more three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter Edition 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 It's official: Acer to offer Aspire One netbook with Google Android, Q3 2009 Andrew Nusca: Acer today unveiled its first Aspire One netbook featuring the open source Google Android operating system. Why Android? "Faster connection to the Internet," the company says. Oh yeah, and it's cheap, too. As in free. READ FULL STORY Acer to sell Android netbooks in Q3 2009; will they be cheaper? Asus Eee PC spotted running Android, Qualcomm CPU Android's doing a pretty good job of keeping up with the iPhone ThinkFree Mobile Office suite for Android to be demoed next week 18 Android phones coming by Christmas 2009 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 Google's new data tools: it's all about business Sam Diaz: For just a moment, forget about what Google's motives might be with the new analytics features that it's giving to users of the company's Local Business Center. Instead, think about how a business -- local, national -- can benefit from knowing what people are doing on the Internet in the moments before they find you in Google's local listings. READ FULL STORY Businesses gain access to Google data through Local Business Center Google begins its rumble with Amazon Google is in "Bing" trouble Featured TalkBack 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 The CIO is dead (long live the CIO) Patrick Gray: The recent explosion of C-level titles means a rationalization of the C-suite is long overdue before the alphabet soup of C-level positions threatens to make the title meaningless. The CIO role is not safe from extinction, and in its current state, there is a good chance its days are numbered. READ FULL STORY CIOs should take a few punches amid the downturn to save IT Five IT security pet peeves Stepping into a leadership vacuum shows initiative E-reader devices: The fun is just starting Larry Dignan: The interest in e-readers has reached a fever pitch. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fields nothing but Kindle questions at the company's shareholder meeting. Prime View picks up E Ink, the company that supplies the screen to Amazon's Kindle, for $215 million. And companies ranging from Google to Interead are aiming to upset Amazon's early advantage. READ FULL STORY Interead Cool-er: so close yet so far away Google reads my blogs again, uses my e-book model Amazon Kindle DX shipping date confirmed Google to sell e-books by end of 2009; what will Amazon do? If a color Kindle is years away, where does that leave e-textbooks? 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	In The Blogs Five ways to keep the dust bunnies out of a PC -- Bill Detwiler Want a smart meter? Try your electric bill first -- Dana Blankenhorn Twitter on your intranet: 17 microblogging tools for business -- Dion Hinchcliffe Overcoming the laptop wall -- Christopher Dawson Are Services lifting the economy out of the recession? -- Brian Sommer Intel buys Wind River; Targets software for embedded devices -- Larry Dignan Microsoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy term -- Jennifer Bergen Intel Core i7 975: 'World's fastest processor' reviews, aggregated -- Andrew Nusca Run a quick test of your PC's settings with online services -- Heather Clancy YouTube XL: Designed for viewing on HDTVs -- Sean Portnoy Intuit makes two-pronged PaaS and SaaS push -- Phil Wainewright Are tech companies agreeing not to steal top execs? -- Richard Koman New iPhone rumors mapped out -- Jennifer Bergen Trying to fix "broken" online advertising -- Tom Foremski Google's Brin: Time to speed up the web -- Simon Bisson Now Introducing... 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