ZDNet Blogs

Green building boom

Harry Fuller — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:41:23 PST

Green building growth predicted for the U.S.

Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the ante

Larry Dignan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:09:13 PST

HP's acquisition of 3Com fills out a few key parts in HP's networking portfolio. HP is clearly going hard after Cisco.

Apple Safari exposes Windows to drive-by download attacks

Ryan Naraine — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:37:04 PST

A high-priority Safari update patches vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution (drive-by downloads) if a user simply surfs to a maliciously rigged Web site.

HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlook

Sam Diaz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:36:49 PST

HP announced plans to acquire networking company 3Com for an estimated $2.7 billion and raised its guidance for full year revenue and earnings.

AMD updates roadmap, promises "supercomputer in your lap"

John Morris — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:32:24 PST

AMD's analyst's day is an opportunity to see how the company's processor roadmaps have changed over the past 12 months. This year AMD execs said things are ahead of schedule and provided new details on exactly what its new laptop and desktop platforms will offer.

LiveOffice opens cloud-based e-mail archiving to all mail platforms

Sam Diaz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:38:44 PST

LiveOffice announced cloud-based e-mail archiving for all e-mail platforms, even those that still live in a traditional e-mail data center.

Why not pay for what works?

Dana Blankenhorn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:44:01 PST

If this was Betsy McCaughey's intent, she is fiendishly clever. By taking science and evidence out, she has left voters with a choice between paying for political voodoo or keeping the present wasteful system alive.

Google's storage price cuts and a big missed backup opportunity

Larry Dignan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:42:11 PST

Google cut its pricing for extra storage for its Gmail and Picasa services and in a nutshell you can buy 20 GB of storage for a mere $5 a year. That's great news and a huge missed opportunity.

Bing 2.0 debuts

Mary Jo Foley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:38:05 PST

Microsoft is rolling out over the next few weeks its first major release of Bing since the search engine launched in June. The refresh is being rolled out over the next few weeks and includes health and nutrition-related data from Wolfram Alpha, among other new features.

Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity

Joe McKendrick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:15:12 PST

Perhaps IT can't deliver measurable productivity because the measurements are wrong