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How to kill innovation, in five easy steps

Innovation is the life blood of most organizations in the 21st century, but most of them regularly do things to snuff out innovation wherever it rears its head. Here are five of the main culprits. Read more

Resource of the day

Upgrading to Windows 7? Download this Readiness Assessment First

Assess your hardware, software, user, and infrastructure readiness before you make the move to Windows 7. Download the Dell Windows 7 Readiness Assessment to ensure a smooth migration to Windows 7 and reduce costly and unpleasant surprises.


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GigaOM's list of the top 50 cloud innovators shows there is no shortage of innovation in the cloud computing space. Blogger Rick Vanover shares his thoughts on cloud technology innovation and solutions. Read more

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Can IT still change the world?

What surprised me most about the Thiel Foundation's 20 Under 20 list is that the information technology projects looked promising, but didn't inspire much in the way of world-changing items. Read more

AT&T's LTE upgrades coming this summer, starting with Texas

Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Chicago, and Atlanta will be the first to get the network upgrades in AT&T's Texas-centered LTE launch. Read more

CEO Ballmer (mis)speaks, Microsoft HQ clarifies

There's something crazy about a CEO of a multibillion dollar corporation telling people one thing, and then the company having to clear up the misstatement later. Read more

Microsoft Skype breaks open-source partnership

What a surprise! The pre-Microsoft purchase Skype will no longer let Digium include Skype functionality in its open-source Asterisk telephone services server. Read more

Mac malware authors release a new, more dangerous version

Apple finally responded to the Mac Defender outbreak, with a technical note containing removal instructions and the promise of a removal tool. Within hours, the bad guys had released a new version... Read more

Apple to issue update to 'automatically find and remove' Mac Defender malware

Apple has released an advisory that describes how to both avoid and remove Mac Defender malware from affected systems. Read more

Email is far from dead; 'no viable replacement' in sight

Email is not dead, and will not die out any time soon. Most visitors of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! go straight to email, and even social networking cannot fully compete. Read more

Without Virtualization, Apple's OS Will Die

The death of Apple's OS X wouldn't particularly hurt the company but there's a way to save it and it's pretty simple: Virtualization. Read more

Microsoft preps users for the move to Office 365 cloud platform

Microsoft execs are doing a number of things to ready themselves internally and externally for the soon-to-be-launched Office 365, Microsoft's suite of hosted SharePoint, Exchange and Lync... Read more

Can an open-source backer thrive inside Microsoft? This one says no

People join and leave Microsoft every day. One open-source backer who is leaving Microsoft after a three-year stint there provides his take on why Microsoft wasn't a good fit for him. Read more

Twitter officially acquires TweetDeck client

Twitter has officially picked up the TweetDeck personal browser client for its micro-blogging site, marking further consolidation of the third-party Twitter apps. Read more

Zuckerberg: Facebook not working on under-13 access, not going public (yet)

Kids under 13 will have to wait for Facebook access, said the social networking site's CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday. Read more

Amazon trots out ad-supported Kindle 3G with $25 discount

Not to let Barnes & Noble completely steal the e-reader show this week, Amazon has added another ad-supported Kindle to the mix. Read more


Featured multimedia

 

Cracking Open the Samsung Series 9 (13.3-inch) ultraportable notebook

Bill Detwiler cracks open Samsung's answer to the MacBook Air. Inside the ultrathin notebook, he found hardware from Samsung, Intel, TI, and Broadcom. View on site

Fans in costume at Dallas Comic Con 2011

Dallas Comic Con 2011 was held on May 21-22. Take a look at some of the costume photos from the event. View on site

Geeky models on display at WonderFest 2011

WonderFest 2011 was held in Louisville, KY, on May 14-15. There were quite a few models on display for movie geeks and model hobbyists. Here are some photos from the annual event. View on site



Today's recommended downloads

State of Virtualization (Dell, Inc., Intel, Inc. & Citrix Systems)

Take Application Performance to a New Level with Oracle Exadata (Oracle)

Test Drive Recovery Manager for Exchange (Quest Software)

Get Ready for a Successful Migration to Windows 7 (Dell, Inc. & Intel, Inc.)

Virtual Client Solutions for Success in a Tricky Economy (Dell, Inc., Intel, Inc. & Citrix Systems)


 

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