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Welcome to ZDNet's 2008 Holiday Gift Guide

What good is it to have the best line-up of product bloggers around if they can't help you pick out holiday presents?

• Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs and hybrids
• Details of AMD's Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking out
• Lines out door, around corner for BlackBerry Storm
• Thanks Microsoft, I will now subscribe to the Zune Pass
• Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm

• Digital Cameras
• Laptops & Desktops
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• SOHO Networking
• The ToyBox
• Smartphones & Cell Phones
• Home Theater

I don't want to use Windows anymore

Christopher Dawson: As I am forced to turn more attention to ensuring that my Windows PCs stay malware free and I watch my *nix computers hum along happily, I'm struggling to see a good reason to stick with the Windows platform.

• Dana Blankenhorn: Some open source attacks on Windows may be unfair
• Dana Blankenhorn: An open source fundraiser for the ages

• Apple's 2008 ad budget: $486M
• Advantages of the iPhone over the Storm
• Ulteo offers server based computing solution for Linux desktops, apps
• Why the new Zune Pass should be irresistible
• iPhone 2.2 firmware released

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• Community, Inc.
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Linux and Open Source
• Managing L'unix
• The Universal Desktop

Dell: How bad is it?

Larry Dignan: Dell's fiscal third quarter isn't expected to be pretty. The only real question is where Dell's quarter falls on the ugly scale.

• Apple's 2008 ad budget: $486M
• Advantages of the iPhone over the Storm
• Why the new Zune Pass should be irresistible
• iPhone 2.2 firmware released
• Gallery: Blackberry Storm user interface

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• The BlackBerry Beat
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Googling Google

US Army bans USB drives

Ryan Naraine: Under sustained attack from what is described as a rapidly spreading network worm, the U.S. army has banned the use of USB sticks, CDs, flash media cards, and all other removable data storage devices, according to a report.

• Ryan Naraine: Malware found in Lenovo software package
• Ryan Naraine: Malware-infected USB drives distributed at security conference

• Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP
• Verizon snoops peek at Obama's cell phone records
• iPhone update kills 12 security bugs
• Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drives
• What does the spam ISP shutdown really mean?

• Zero Day
• Threat Chaos
• Between the Lines

Metrics of open source success

Dana Blankenhorn: For two generations now those who work with or on computers have seen money as the main metric of success. By "money" we mean Paris Hilton money.

• The brutal truth - but not, I think, about Vista.
• Deep in the heart of Texas: Electronics recycling infrastructure expanded
• Science, research and the politics of grantmanship
• Can a dose of SOA relieve tension?
• IT resellers encouraged to spread the EPEAT green gospel

• On Sustainability
• IT Project Failures
• GreenTech Pastures
• IT Services & Outsourcing
• Managing L'unix

AMD's Phenom II show overclocking potential

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: After initial overclocking disappointment with the Phenom, AMD has put effort into giving the Phenom II a fair amount of overclocking overhead.

• Details of AMD's Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking out
• AMD's Phenom II shows overclocking potential
• Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget hardware
• iPhone 2.2 update is out
• Microsoft: Free anti-malware for all (Windows users)!

• Storage Bits
• Hardware 2.0
• The Core Truth
• Laptops & Desktops

Towards a World Wide Grid?

Roland Piquepaille: The g-Eclipse project aims to build an integrated workbench framework to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures.

• A guide to cutting IT costs
• Mac OS X targeted by Trojan and backdoor tool
• Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support
• Mozilla to end support for Firefox 2
• Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push

• Emerging Technologies
• Between The Lines
• All About Microsoft
• The Core Truth
• IT Facts
• Tom Foremski: IMHO

Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support

Sun introduced a version of the open-source NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE), with expanded support for web and Java software development.

• Can a dose of SOA relieve tension?
• Enterprise 2.0 solution reduces email abuse
• Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer
• Explaining SOA failure to the boss: here are some real good excuses
• Wyse, more than just thin clients

• Between the Lines
• BriefingsDirect
• Enterprise Anti-matter
• Enterprise Web 2.0
• Irregular Enterprise
• IT Project Failures
• Service Oriented
• Software as Services

It's official: No IE 8 until 2009

Mary Jo Foley: After one more public test build early next year, Microsoft plans to release the final version of Internet Explorer 8 in calendar 2009.

• iPhone vs. Android development: Day 5
• Google launches SearchWiki
• iPhone vs. Android development: Day 4
• Google kills Lively
• Official Gmail Themes are beautiful

• Googling Google
• Dev Connection
• The Semantic Web
• The Social Web
• The Universal Desktop
• Web 2.0 Explorer

iPhone 3G coming to Walmart, Sam's Club

Andrew Nusca: Walmart will begin selling Apple's iPhone 3G on December 28th in select locations, eventually expanding to 2,500 stores, according to a report.

• 'Fish' = 'Sex'? iPhone can't understand British accent
• Businesses warming up to Apple iPhone
• Apple sued over hairline cracks in iPhone 3G

• Thanks Microsoft, I will now subscribe to the Zune Pass
• T-Mobile announces the cameo wireless photo frame to display camera phone images
• Zune 3.1 firmware gives you 3 new games, price drops for flash Zunes too
• Review: TeleNav Shotgun internet connected personal navigation device
• Boingo to provide WiFi service on Washington State ferries

• The BlackBerry Beat
• IP Telephony
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• The Social Web
• SOHO Networking
• Team Think