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Now Playing Desktop virtualization Whiteboard Video
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The future of... Sticky notes The Future Of...
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At Autodesk, designing a greener future The Green Enterprise
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The future of... Paper The Future Of...
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Where's Netbook's niche? News Video
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Top five blogs of 2008 News Video
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2009: The year in preview News Video
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The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences The Green Enterprise
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2008: The year in tech News Video
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Car-friendly outlets pave way for electric driving The Green Enterprise
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Walt Mossberg picks hot holiday gadgets News Video
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Google feeling the pinch? News Video
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Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel The Green Enterprise
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The future of... Ink The Future Of...
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Singing Elvis, Wii lightsabers top Kara Swisher's holiday list News Video
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Desktop virtualization
By 2011, there could be more than 660 million virtualized desktops. John Whaley, CTO and Founder of MokaFive, talks about the issues surrounding current ...
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The future of... Sticky notes
Without a doubt, sticky notes are handy, but in many ways they're stuck in the analog world. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das introduces us to ...
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CEO predicts future uses for Twitter
At a Churchill Club event in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Evan Williams reveals which possible uses for his microblogging service excite him the most, ...
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Daily Debrief: Can you hold a Macworld without Mac's maker?
A double bolt from the blue: Apple CEO Steve Jobs will not speak at January's Macworld show. What's more, Apple has announced that this ...
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PC sales grow, but units not flying off the shelves
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about November sales figures for PCs. Diaz lays out the various factors that are ...
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2009: The year in preview
ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan predicts five tech stories he believes will happen in the coming year. Topics include the fate of Yahoo, ...
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Top five blogs of 2008
ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan counts down the most popular tech blog posts based on traffic for the year. Watch the video to ...
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2008: The year in tech
It's almost time to close the books on 2008. But before we start singing "Auld Lang Syne," ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and Editor in ...
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Mobile virtualization
Mike Seashols, Chairman of VirtualLogix, talks about implementing virtualization technologies onto mobile platforms. He says there are many issues that mobile providers have to ...
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Daily Debrief: Microsoft's Muglia, soup to nuts
On the CNET News Daily Debrief, Ina Fried chats with Bob Muglia, one of Microsoft's senior executives, about Windows Azure, and what's in store ...
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Tribune’s troubles reflect old media in new age
ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz offers his take on the recent filing by Tribune for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Diaz says newspaper executives only ...
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Inside Office
Watch the Demos Office 2007 can help you and your family get things done faster and easier. Like organizing your household budget, making great ...
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Better School Reports
Better School Reports
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Easier Home Budgets
Easier Home Budgets
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Run Your Business
Run Your Business
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Keep Organized
Keep Organized
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School Presentation
School Presentation
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Work From Home
Work From Home
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Will Obama administration usher in universal broadband access?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Senior Editor Sam Diaz about President-elect Barack Obama's response to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation's new report ...
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The Green Enterprise: Autodesk
Autodesk tools aim to help designers conceptualize projects on a computer before starting the costly (and energy-intense) production process. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes ...
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The lightbulb of the future?
Silicon Valley's Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. News.com's Michael Kanellos talks to the company about its technology and its plans to expand into various markets.
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Fill your car for $1.10 a gallon?
Menlo Park, Calif.'s ZeaChem has come up with a way to turn wood chips into ethanol that will sell for around $1.10 a gallon or less when it comes out in 2010. Brewing and petrochemical technology go into the mix. News.com Editor at Large Michael Kanellos talks with founder Dan Verser and CEO James Imbler about their plans for cheap fuel.
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Sex, games and videotape
Hear from folks attending the Sex in Videogames conference--a meeting of game developers and marketers who aim to create adult entertainment for the next generation. Also check out some game play from the upcoming "Virtual Hottie 2," a game that simulates--well, you know.
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Samsung introduces flat-panel wireless TV
ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind talks to Samsung's senior manager for plasma TV marketing, Bill Dickey, about the company's new FPT 5094 50-inch wireless flat-panel TV. The package includes an audio and video receiver that transmits information to the plasma display. The television is due out in October with a retail price of $4,500.
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A world without Windows?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with senior editor Sam Diaz about new "instant-on" features that allow a PC to boot up without using Microsoft Windows. They discuss how tech companies such as Dell and Intel are all working on new technologies that enable users to get faster access to e-mail, calendars, and Web browsing.
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What is a mashup?
Developers are getting creative, taking APIs from multiple Websites and merging them to form new, innovative applications. Frozenbear.com merges Google maps and Singles to let you know where the single people are in your neighborhood. Parkingcarma.com helps you track down parking spaces in the Bay Area. ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind says mashups are the fastest growing ecosystem on the Web and that by 2007, there will be 10 new mashups per day.
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Apple's new Mac Mini
At Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday showed off the new Intel-powered Mac Mini to a group of reporters.
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The future of... Ink
Imagine a magazine that updates its articles whenever new information is available. A tablet that stores all the textbooks a university student will ever need. Or a supermarket shelf tag that automatically reflects price changes. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das shows us how electronic ink is turning the page on a new era for displays.
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A load of C.R.A.P.
ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind suggests that CRAP or Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection, is a catchier phrase than DRM - Digital Rights Management. Why does he think this technology is crap? Once you've bought music or other content to play on one device, it won't play on any other device because of the proprietary layer of CRAP.
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The BlackBerry Storm touches down
The BlackBerry Storm has been one of the most hotly anticipated cell phones of the year. On Friday, November 21, it hit store shelves for $200 with a two-year service agreement through Verizon. But the question is, does it live up to the hype? CNET Reporter Kara Tsuboi finds out.
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Which solar technology will survive?
At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Todd Glass of Heller Ehrman moderates a discussion on the various solar technologies making a difference in the green movement. From thin film PVs to concentrating solar, which technology is best-suited for deployment on a utility scale? Attempting to answer this question are panelists Peter Duprey, CEO at Acciona; Ricardo Angel, senior vice president at GE Energy Financial Services; and Fong Wan, vice president of energy procurement at PG&E.
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Energy-efficient transistors
Rob Willoner, a technology analyst at Intel, explains how smaller and more energy-efficient transistors are resulting in faster and more powerful CPUs.
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The future, reusable paper
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Las Vegas, Steve Hoover, vice president with Xerox Research Center Webster, shows off a technology being developed in the company's labs that enables people to reuse a piece of paper. The paper contains a photochromic compound that makes ink disappear when hit by direct heat.
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The future of... Mobile device chargers
No power? No problem. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes a look at kinetic energy technology that charges mobile phones and devices without ever needing an electrical outlet. The mobile device charger generates power from motion, whether it's in a pocket, a briefcase, or the glove compartment of a car.
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Is Steve Jobs slowly passing the baton?
ZDNet's Sam Diaz offers his views on Steve Jobs' presentation at the Apple notebook event Tuesday. He says the Apple CEO could slowly be handing over the reins, given that he gave a lot of his time during the event to Apple executives Tim Cook and Phil Schiller.
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The future of... Paper
It's a possible fix for the reams and reams of paper that are printed, used briefly, and then tossed everyday. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes us inside the Palo Alto Research Center where scientists are developing a way to print an image that disappears, allowing the paper to be used dozens of times.
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Wi-Fi while you fly
Imagine sending e-mails, browsing blogs, and booking your next trip with ease while soaring above the clouds. CNET's Kara Tsuboi tests out Virgin America's new in-flight Wi-Fi service and concludes that we'll no longer be able to slack off during a business trip again.
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Livescribe demos new smartpen
Jim Marggraff, CEO of Livescribe, shows off the 2GB, Java-capable Pulse Smartpen at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The pen records audio as the user takes handwritten notes, then synchs up the sound with the writing. Audio can then be played back when someone taps the pen on paper. The device also converts languages instantly, playing translations out loud through the embedded speaker or displaying the word on its LED screen.
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What is virtualization?
Data centers are commonly filled with large numbers of servers that require a tremendous amount of time and money to maintain. Dan Chu of VMware shows how virtualization can optimize fewer servers to run at higher performance levels.
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Browser wars: who’s the fastest?
Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks about the race for the fastest browser engine. Google, Microsoft, Appleare all competing with Mozilla. The competition, he says, is good for users and developers.
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