A reason to hold off on Vista

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Jan 12, 20072 mins

Podcasts: While converged communications devices and consumer-oriented products are garnering tons of attention at CES, the enterprise-worthy hybrid drives are coming into their own as well. And, they just might give you one more reason to wait before deploying Vista. Tune into Storage Sprawl.

Gov’t: Net neutrality has come back this week with two U.S. senators proposing legislation to prohibit broadband providers from favoring access, and yesterday FCC chairman Kevin Martin says at CES that the notion ‘means different things to different people.’ He adds that consumers should have access to everything available for free on the Internet, but slipped in his thoughts that operators ought to be able to charge for premium services. In other words, he’s straddling both sides of the hotly-contested debate for the time being.

Slideshow: Storage and Net neutrality are not the only news at CES, of course. The latest coverage includes a wide array of new products and happening at the show. Just think: an iPod dock that doubles as toilet paper holder. Weird, indeed, but somebody out there actually made it. (I’ll skip any jokes about focus groups.) The EPA talks tech recycling. Plus, new cameras, projectors, leaf-like lights. View the slideshow here.

The news beat: Microsoft details Titan, the next version of its Dynamics CRM software, slated to ship in summer ’07. Oracle provides advance notification of what customers ought to expect when it releases the next security update on Tuesday. And the U.S. trails Europe and Japan when it comes to exporting technology goods to China.