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TOP STORIES - February 25, 2009 • Microsoft Ponders Web Services Effort • Gmail Restored After Service Outage Reported • Hackers Break Microsoft's CAPTCHA Again • Android Developers See Opportunity, Hacks • What Makes Question and Answer Sites Popular? SPOTLIGHT OpenSUSE 11.1 Takes On Ubuntu, Fedora See if Novell's latest Linux distro has what it takes to win mind share over Canonical and Red Hat's offerings. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Scenes from Mobile World Congress 2009 • The Evolution of the Smartphone • Pics: HTC's Touch Diamond2, Touch Pro2 • First Look: Windows Mobile 6.5 FEATURED VIDEO Vista Upgrade Tips See why upgrading to Vista is the best way to prepare for Windows 7. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • What Would a Microsoft Store Look Like? • Microsoft Bungles Severance • First Look: Dell's Inspiron Mini 10 Laptop • Review: OpenSUSE 11.1 IN THIS ISSUE Microsoft Ponders Web Services Effort Microsoft is considering whether to participate in a Web services standards effort called the Web Services Test Forum, which is backed by IBM, Oracle and others, but the software giant has indicated it may be redundant. READ MORE >> Gmail Restored After Service Outage Reported Gmail went down for two-and-a-half hours during the morning of Feb. 24, although Google reported that it restored full Gmail service in the United States and Europe. READ MORE >> Brought to you by Ziff Davis Enterprise You're Invited: eSeminar on Wednesday, March 4 at 2pm ET / 11am PT Reduce Cost and Complexity in your IT Environment with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Struggling to manage the cost and complexity within your IT environment? Amplify Control and Change Management with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007! Join the System Center experts at Quest Software and Dimension Data to learn how to reduce the cost and complexity that is eroding away the efficiency of your organization. Click Here To Register. ADVERTISEMENT Hackers Break Microsoft's CAPTCHA Again Spammers break CAPTCHA in order to abuse free Webmail services to send out spam. READ MORE >> Android Developers See Opportunity, Hacks Developers of applications for Google's Android phone are gearing up for increased customer demand for applications, even as some continue to create apps for the competing Apple iPhone. Meanwhile, developers also discuss hacks to enable greater access to Android phones. READ MORE >> What Makes Question and Answer Sites Popular? Google shuttered its question and answer site, Google Answers, more than two years ago. Yet Yahoo Answers continues to thrive, and putting the phrase "question and answer sites" into Google yields more than a million hits. Here's look at some of the features you can find on question and answer sites, consider their continued popularity, and try to discover what makes such a site successful. READ MORE >> Enterprise Collaboration: Five Top Blunders to Avoid This paper is designed to help you avoid the five biggest blunders others commonly make when choosing a collaboration solution. DOWNLOAD NOW >> How to Untangle the "Integration Hairball": Four Strategies Many companies have allowed their IT infrastructures to grow piecemeal into a tangle of poorly integrated systems -- a situation that unnecessarily complicates their ability to compete in an already complex global marketplace. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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