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CES 2009: Gadget heaven

Special report: He who dies with the most toys wins. For your home, car, or office - there are enough gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show to keep almost everyone occupied.

• Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft at CES: Zune Mobile, no; Win 7 Beta 1, yes - Gallery
• Andrew Nusca: CES 2009: First impressions
• Gallery: CES gadgets - the first wave (updated)
• Andrew Nusca: CES from day 2

• Digital Cameras
• Laptops & Desktops
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• SOHO Networking
• The ToyBox
• Smartphones & Cell Phones
• Home Theater

CES: Where's the Mac pavilion?

David Morgenstern: Some consumer market exhibitors said they might skip next year's Macworld Expo in San Francisco if an Apple-centric presence is offered at CES in Las Vegas.

• Special Report: Macworld Expo
• Larry Dignan: Apple rolls the dice on fixed MacBook Pro batteries
• Sam Diaz: Schiller delivers but announcements disappoint

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• The BlackBerry Beat
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Googling Google

Microsoft planning quiet Patch Tuesday

Ryan Naraine: Microsoft plans to ship a solitary security bulletin next Tuesday with fixes for a serious security problem in its flagship Windows operating system.

• Microsoft server worm can spread via USB

• Zero Day
• Threat Chaos
• Between the Lines

Six Vista annoyances fixed in Windows 7

Ed Bott: To listen to the critics, Vista's designers succeeded in making every feature worse than XP. In fact, the latest complaint is that Vista and the upcoming Windows 7 are even worse than Windows 98. Or maybe not.

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Six new annoyances introduced in Windows 7 - Gallery
• Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft at CES: Zune Mobile, no; Win 7 Beta 1, yes - Gallery
• Microsoft: Windows 7 means business
• Paul Murphy: Reviewing Windows 7

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• Community, Inc.
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Linux and Open Source
• Managing L'unix
• The Universal Desktop

SOA dead as of January 1st, analyst says

Joe McKendrick: At least one analyst says SOA has hit the wall. It hasn't been delivering ROI, and organizations need to move on to better and faster initiatives.

• Between the Lines
• BriefingsDirect
• Enterprise Anti-matter
• Enterprise Web 2.0
• Irregular Enterprise
• IT Project Failures
• Service Oriented
• Software as Services

AMD Neo, HP dv2 take on both netbooks and notebooks

John Morris: Plugging a hole in its laptop portfolio, AMD has announced a new processor platform for very thin and lightweight notebooks.

• Gallery: HP expands notebook, netbook, desktop lineup for CES

• Storage Bits
• Hardware 2.0
• The Core Truth
• Laptops & Desktops

An interpretation of the cloud

Paul Murphy: Here's a simple question: from the perspective of a a senior, non IT, executive in a mid range company how does cloud computing differ from the 1980s idea of connecting all users to one big machine (real or virtual)?

• On Sustainability
• IT Project Failures
• GreenTech Pastures
• IT Services & Outsourcing
• Managing L'unix

Carmakers could go bananas over coconuts

Harry Fuller: Baylor University researchers say the coconut husk may yield the strong fiber of future cars and other durable products.

• Emerging Technologies
• Between The Lines
• All About Microsoft
• The Core Truth
• IT Facts
• Tom Foremski: IMHO

Apple iTunes goes all DRM free

Ed Burnette: Apple announced today that effective immediately 8 million songs on iTunes would be DRM free, and that by the end of the quarter all 10 million songs on the popular music site would be DRM free.

• Googling Google
• Dev Connection
• The Semantic Web
• The Social Web
• The Universal Desktop
• Web 2.0 Explorer

MSI announces Wind netbooks with SSD/HDD and WiMAX/3.5G

Matthew Miller: MSI Computer's U-Series Netbooks include the U115 that will be capable of running both a SSD and HDD at the same time using hybrid storage technology.

• The BlackBerry Beat
• IP Telephony
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• The Social Web
• SOHO Networking
• Team Think