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============================================================ ********** Sponsored by APC ********** Measuring Total Cost of Ownership? Free white paper! Improve your methods for measuring TCO of data center and network room physical infrastructure and relating these costs to the overall IT infrastructure. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115415-0-0-0-1 ************************************************************ ============================================================ Welcome to today's edition of Inside PCMag.com. As the U.S. government works to pass more stringent antispyware legislation, spyware purveyors are scrambling to add the scent of legitimacy. This is, of course, bad news for people trying to avoid spyware. But perhaps new legislation will be strong enough to stop even the marginal spyware companies. What do you think? Is there anything that can be done by law or technology to stem the flow of spyware onto your PCs? http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115418-0-0-0-1 IN THIS ISSUE: * Review: A Sleek and Powerful Value Notebook * Review: A Terrific Multimedia Notebook * Buying Guide: Essentials for Business Travel * Opinion: Can One Shock Jock Make Satellite Radio Shine? * Review: Adobe Premiere Elements Simplifies Video Editing * Security Watch: Google Desktop Goes too Far? * Tech Edge: Slamming AMD and Trading Barbs * Special Report: The Digital Home Office ============================================================ Review: A Sleek and Powerful Value Notebook eMachines could turn out to be the best thing to ever happen to Gateway. While consumers have grown cold to the once-powerful PC maker's charms, the newly acquired eMachines is charming users--and now reviewers--with systems featuring a powerful mix of features. We liked the sub-$1,000, 6.6-pound, AMD-based laptop so much, we awarded it an Editors' Choice. Get all the details in our Labs-based review. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115421-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Review: A Terrific Multimedia Notebook At the other end of the price and capabilities spectrum is HP's new Media Center portable, the Pavilion zd8000. It's $2,699, weighs over 9 pounds, and offers a massive 17-inch screen. Read our full review for more features and performance analysis. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115424-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Buying Guide: Essentials for Business Travel Travel is a fact of life in business, but working effectively while traveling is not. We can help you with that. We've collected the essential buying guide for the traveling professional and cover everything you need to know to buy the right notebooks, PDAs and smart phones, and printers and projectors. We also go through the gadgets that will make your trip that much easier and even add details on how to stay connected while on the road. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115427-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Opinion: Can One Shock Jock Make Satellite Radio Shine? Howard Stern has proclaimed his allegiance to satellite radio (starting in 2006), but can one man take a still-niche technology category and transform it into a leader? Perhaps there are lessons to be learned from other technologies. Executive Editor Lance Ulanoff thinks so. Get his thoughts on the shocking radio jock and Satellite's radio future. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115430-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Review: Adobe Premiere Elements Simplifies Video Editing Premiere Elements, Adobe's first attempt at a consumer video-editing application, isn't for everyone. The package will appeal primarily to two groups of users: Photoshop Elements users who want a video editor that will integrate with their image editor, and tech-savvy video-editing novices who plan on eventually progressing to the full-blown Adobe Premiere Pro. We've got all the details in our full review. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115433-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Security Watch: Google Desktop Goes too Far? PCMag.com has discovered a little bug in the still-in-beta, but public, Google Desktop that could make your password-protected documents more visible and vulnerable than you planned. Plus, we've got an up-close look at the new, fast-moving Bagle.BC virus. The e-mails carrying it say "Thank You!" and seem friendly, but they carry a dangerous payload. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115436-0-0-0-1 Plus: A New, and Possibly Better, Way of Making Passwords http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115439-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Tech Edge: Slamming AMD and Trading Barbs We'd like to welcome esteemed tech columnists Bill O'Brien and Alice Hill. They've been writing about technology for over a dozen years and now bring their particular brand of tech enthusiasm and knowledge to PCMag.com in our new biweekly column, "Tech Edge". This week Alice and Bill look at AMD's foray into the underprivileged markets and Intel's speed confusion. Check it out and let us know what you think in the forums. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115442-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Special Report: The Digital Home Office If you throw a PC into your bedroom and call it your "home office," you could be short-changing yourself. Not that a PC isn't a good start, but there's so much more that goes into today's home-office environment, including broadband, wireless, broadband sharing wirelessly, and a collection of powerful peripherals. We have the inside track on building the ultimate digital home office. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1222-1-53-371668-115445-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ The PCMag.com Bookstore PC Magazine's Windows XP Solutions Ever wish they'd consulted you before they designed Windows XP? 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