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Top Editors Picks Benchmarking Firefox 3.5 Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How does the latest release of Mozilla's browser compare to the rest? Firefox 3.5 is fast, all right, but not fast enough to beat Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari. READ FULL STORY Gallery: Firefox 3.5 slideshow Firefox 3.5: Well positioned as mid-sized browser gorilla Can Firefox 3.5 wean universities off their IE addiction? Firefox 3.5: More than 1.1M downloads already Testing Firefox 3.5...mind your add-ons! Microsoft to push IE 8 to more business users in August Sponsored How much do IT professionals earn? Find out in the 2009 activeTechPros IT salary & skills report. Be a member and get free access. * * * * * * * * * * * * How much do business professionals earn? Take our salary survey and find out once the salary benchmark wizard is completed. Desktops aren't dead (yet) John Morris: Laptops have long since overtaken their desk- bound brethren in terms of revenues, and more recently unit sales. But desktops still represented 47 percent of all PC sales worldwide. They're still big business. READ FULL STORY Netbook or notebook? Confusion reigns at 12 inches How much do desktops matter? Building high-performance, luxury computers in a recession Cisco CEO: 'Video is the killer app' Larry Dignan: At Cisco Live in San Francisco, CEO John Chambers talks about the key technologies he envisions growing the Internet of the future. Chambers discusses video as an important part of the company's strategy, enabling better collaboration technologies such as Cisco's TelePresence. READ FULL STORY Chambers plays up power of network at Cisco Live Barry Diller: Internet 'absolutely' will become a 'paid system' in 5 years The year's 10 most popular galleries - so far We've published hundreds of galleries so far this year -- images of the products, people and events that matter most to business. The most viewed images include first peeks at Windows 7, Palm Pre and iPhone 3G. READ FULL STORY What technology looks like: Browse ZDNet galleries Sponsored How much do IT professionals earn? Find out in the 2009 activeTechPros IT salary & skills report. Be a member and get free access. * * * * * * * * * * * * How much do business professionals earn? Take our salary survey and find out once the salary benchmark wizard is completed. Failing with online backup Michael Krigsman: Seeking to back up 350GB in safe, reliable, off-site storage, I tried Carbonite and Mozy, two of the most respected names in the offline backup market. Both products failed miserably to achieve my goals, each one in a perversely different way. READ FULL STORY HP SimpleSave external hard drive backs your files up with ease Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services? 10 things you still have to worry about until cloud computing becomes reality Sam Diaz: The time is now for Mozy and cloud backup services Toybox Ten: 10 full-featured laptops for less than $750 Andrew Nusca: Prices for notebooks are lower than ever before, yet a dizzying amount of options -- netbooks notwithstanding -- are available for your next machine. Which laptop will give you enough bang-for-your-buck? Here are 10 fully-featured systems under $750. READ FULL STORY Gateway NV series offers dual-core, 320GB HDD, 4GB RAM; $499 Toshiba debuts six new Satellite L Series budget laptops; start at $549 New Acer Aspire laptops start at $480 HP's new 13" ProBook 4310s offers Core 2 Duo, discrete GPU; starts $799 Featured TalkBack Blog PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid? Dennis Howlett: It goes like this: Satyam's CEO admitted to defrauding the company of $1 billion in cash in January. He was thrown in jail along with the two PwC partners who had signed off on Satyam's accounts. How could a small band of conspirators spirit away $1 billion without the auditors of record, PricewaterhouseCoopers, noticing? READ FULL BLOG What do you think? Post Your Thoughts in TalkBack Reader TalkBacks Steve Jobs nearly died and lied about it "If you are a consumer then Steve Jobs death should mean little to you for your choices remain the same." -- James Quinn Average insecure program per PC rate remains high "Get updates for all programs through 1 interface. For that reason, I believe Linux is the only one that would do relatively well were it ever to get 90% marketshare." -- NonZealot Elsewhere on ZDNet Photo Gallery ZDNet's 10 most popular galleries so far, 2009 We've published hundreds of galleries so far this year -- images of the products, people and events that matter most to business. Here are images from the 10 most popular. VIEW THE GALLERY Doom Resurrection on iPhone Arches and canyons and buttes, oh my! More ZDNet Photo Galleries ZDNet Reviews Review: T-Mobile Dash 3G takes the Dash torch and runs with it Matthew Miller: T-Mobile announced the Dash 3G a couple of weeks ago and I have had the chance to spend the last week and a half evaluating one of them. The verdict? Almost perfect. READ THE REVIEW Eznex ENA7000 EzCube FM transmitter Samsung LN55B650 HDTV More ZDNet Reviews Sign up for ZDNet's Product Watch Newsletter for the latest product reviews, news, and expert analysis	News and Blogs Microsoft to push IE 8 to more business users in August LogMeIn's IPO: The VCs made money. Will you? Feds provide a handy window into their IT spending Visionary 2009: Judy Estrin says innovation is in trouble Forrester expects IT spending trough in third quarter; U.S. tech spending to fall 5 percent in 2009 Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill Micron begins mass production of 34nm NAND flash memory Lenovo introduces latest ThinkServer lineup; Intel Xeon 5500, 128GB DDR3, 16 bays BlackBerry Tour lands at Verizon on July 12; $199.99 Twitter adds better friend management SmartPlanet: Taking up arms in the war against infectious disease SmartPlanet: The generation gap is widening. Are you ready to manage it? Panasonic VIERA LCD HDTV Buy now, only: $599 Apple iPhone 3G Black Now Only: $99 Most Rated Posts ZDNet Readers' Choice: Top 25 free, lightweight apps Netbook or notebook? Confusion reigns at 12 inches Sony to cut PS3 price by $100 in August? Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do upgrades really cost? Microsoft unveils 'screaming deals' for Windows 7   Videos and Podcasts Dell: Selling a new backbone for SMBs ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz talks about the company's effort to sell its products to the SMB market. He says Dell executives are hoping to gain ground on the competition by retooling offerings to be more customizable. PLAY VIDEO Is AT&T slowly dethroning the almighty iPhone? ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his views on the release of Apple's new iPhone 3G S. Diaz says there is a dark shadow being cast over the new device because of its exclusive relationship with carrier AT&T, while users complain about two-year contracts and lack of support for MMS messaging. 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He believes it's important for the green industry to persuade governments to mandate environmentally sustainable buildings in order to speed up construction. PLAY VIDEO Play more video and audio New Technologies Sponsored White papers How much do IT professionals earn? Find out in the 2009 activeTechPros IT salary & skills report. Be a member and get free access. * * * * * * * * * * * * How much do business professionals earn? Take our salary survey and find out once the salary benchmark wizard is completed. Free Videocast: Web Conferencing Trends for Enterprise Organizations Boost employee productivity! Make your processes more efficient! Save money! Does Web conferencing really live up to its hype? In a word: yes. Live Webinar: Speed ROI with Intel vPro Technology and Microsoft SCCM Realize significant ROI savings-and recoup your investment in as little as 10 months-by activating your PCs with these proven technology solutions. 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