In a column written shortly after the Apple announcement, ZDNet editor-in-chief Larry Dignan explored the possibility that rising costs in emerging regions could once again make the U.S. a viable alternative for manufacturing jobs.
ZDnet blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes said it was "hard to get excited about Android updates" because of this problem.
If the historically well-connected Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet is right, the upgrade path will go further back -- much further.
Here's something that opponents of restrictive DRM implementations aren't going to be too happy with: ZDNet is reporting that new copy-protection software for DVD publishers from a company called ProtectDisc not only makes it difficult to rip movies that you've purchased -- no surprise there -- but actually prevents discs from playing in a Windows PC at all.
ENGADGET: Protect DVD-Video prevents discs from playing on your PC
Last spring, when Internet stocks were sizzling, magazine publisher Ziff-Davis issued a tracker for its ZDNet Web division.
Business Suite on HANA may very well be the only product on the market to feature real-time analytical business applications on one in-memory platform, as IT news site ZDNet noted Thursday.
The last time we saw two high profile figures engaged in an entertaining wager Microsoft's J Alllard had to sport N'Gai Croal-esque dreadlocks, and now Lyman is matching ZDnet columnist David Berlind's pledge to go bald if Zune is able to overtake Sansa in domestic sales.
ENGADGET: Pride, hair on the line for 2007 Zune holiday sales
ZDNet investors don't hold a stake in the Web business, but in parent Ziff-Davis.
The Softbank empire includes a 27% stake in E-Trade, 28% of top Web portal Yahoo and 85% ownership of ZDNet.
As ZDNET correctly points out, those were 3 acquisitions that have failed to gain traction in a post-PC, tablet-driven market.
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Ed Bott over at ZDNet has an interesting theory. 1, 024 x 768 matches the size and aspect ratio of many popular reader-sized tablets, like the iPad Mini, which are meant to be used in both portrait and landscape orientations.
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