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  • Firm seeks slice of Apple pie via iPod claim

    A Hong-Kong based company wants 12 percent of all profits from iTunes and iPod sales, claiming it holds the patents to the DRM technology that governs the use of downloads through Apple Computer's online music service.

  • Desktop *nix and what US$50 gets you

    The advent of the US$50 OS could spell trouble for Microsoft, but it's a storm that Redmond will weather.

  • Is Apple on the way out?

    A headline like that is bound to draw the ire of the Macintosh faithful. After all, since Microsoft, which can marshal its forces and target competitors at will with lethal precision, hasn't finished-off Apple after all these years (and I'm not saying that this was necessarily a Redmond goal), how on earth can an operating system like Linux spell trouble for Apple?

  • Will there be life after Microsoft?

    The pressure on Redmond seems to be intensifying, following a week-long string of "Is-there-life-after-Microsoft?" headlines: Gartner declaring Windows' permanent beta status, Ballmer acknowledging StarOffice challenges in Europe, IE-only developers lamenting their futures, plus a lot of pro-Firefox coverage.

  • Sybase trial is a masquerade

    The company's implication - that an open-source licence subjects licensees to intolerable restrictions that a commercial licence does not - is an invitation to apply additional scrutiny. So we did.

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  • Photo gallery: Installing Windows Vista

    The long, long road to installing Windows Vista ... from 3GB DVD.

  • Will there be life after Microsoft?

    The pressure on Redmond seems to be intensifying, following a week-long string of "Is-there-life-after-Microsoft?" headlines: Gartner declaring Windows' permanent beta status, Ballmer acknowledging StarOffice challenges in Europe, IE-only developers lamenting their futures, plus a lot of pro-Firefox coverage.

  • JBoss to Red Hat: Grow up

    Marc Fleury wants Red Hat to change its ways.

  • Security jobs for hackers?

    Recently we asked the ZDNet audience to call in and respond to the question, 'Should hackers be hired by security companies?' An overwhelming majority of the audience said it was a bad idea. ZDNet's David Berlind shares a few of the best answers.

  • AMD misses a trick in security battle

    In response to a recommendation I made to cancel all non-AMD system buys, many people have been asking what changed recently that caused me to reach this conclusion.

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  • Gmail: Past, present, and future

    ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind interviews Keith Coleman, Google's Gmail product manager, about the current status of Gmail and the future of this popular Google app. Coleman also covers other Gmail issues, including the rebuild of the Javascript engine and how strongly Google feels about users' data.

  • With enemies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, why is spam not dead?

    Five years ago, the e-mail technology providers were telling us it would take time before the spam situation improved. Yet, today, there's more spam than ever. In his latest Technology Shakedown, ZDNet's David Berlind blames AOL, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for the mess and demands they act now

  • Opera browser for mobile phones mimics iPhone's Safari

    At the Digital Life Show in New York City, ZDNet executive editor David Berlind gets a demonstration of an iPhone-like browsing feature that Opera will be introducing into Opera Mini, a browser designed specifically for mobile phones.

  • Tech Shakedown: Windows Vista forces reboots

    ZDNet executive editor David Berlind discovers a reboot feature in Microsoft's Vista operating system that he doesn't like. The feature forces users to reboot their PCs with only a short warning before it happens.

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