• Grading the latest in mail servers

  The GCN Lab takes a look inside five mail servers and finds they all have their strengths and weaknesses — and Exchange still rules the roost.

• IdeaPad ideal netbook for budget conscious

  The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 is a good, general-use netbook that comes at a great price. It would do well in an environment where money is an issue and every ounce of weight matters.

• Sony Vaio netbook a multimedia power

  The Sony Vaio W-series is expensive at $500, but it would do well for users who deal with multimedia on a variety of devices with different types of storage.

• Toshiba's Mini is the class of the netbook field

  Toshiba's Mini NB205-N210 has a well-designed interface and the best performance, lowest price and longest battery life -- by far -- in the roundup. No wonder it gets the Review's Choice designation.

• Fujitsu netbook designed to shine

  Fujitsu's M2010 mini-notebook is a nicely apportioned netbook designed for multimedia use. Its bright screen and impressively loud speakers definitely contribute to that.

• Arabic language app walks the talk

  Downloadable from the Apple App Store, this Arabic-speaking companion is a mobile friend for people who want to learn the language.

• HP Mini but mighty netbook

  The HP Mini 5101 has an expansive keyboard and enhanced communications features and would be best suited in an environment with gigabit network connections and/or wireless-N capabilities.

• Dell Latitude: A Netbook on the go
• Motorola Adventure v750
• Motion Computing J3400 Tablet PC
• Getac V100

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GCN Lab Impressions

• Open source comes to Army Go Mobile program

  The Army’s Maj. Keith Parker demos the Go Mobile kit to the GCN Lab.

• Bird is the word for 2009

  Be kind to your fine feathered friends or else they might drop a piece of sandwich into your particle accelerator.

• Hold off on that Windows 7 installation

  The key federal guidelines that agencies will need to install Windows 7 won't be out until next year.

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Tech Product Briefs

• Microsoft releases Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 betas

  Microsoft has released betas of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 to its MSDN and TechNet subscribers.

• Forefront Threat Management Gateway released for manufacturing

  Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, a successor to Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration Server, is a Web gateway designed to provide network edge protection.

• Microsoft rolls out Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta
• Microsoft confirms open-source code in Windows 7 utility
• AMD, Intel settle antitrust suit
• Cisco jumps into the hosted e-mail waters with new service
• Microsoft tries to clean up COFEE spill

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Tech Blog

• Readers defend PDF format against critics

  Readers were of two minds in responding to our report on the Sunlight Foundation’s criticisms of PDF. Several stressed the need for better-educated users. Others contended that data shouldn't always be easy to get at.

• Plasmonics: A new hope for the post-silicon era

  A new way of compressing light could lead to faster computers, scientists predict

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