EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

We kick off another week with a top 10 disappointing technologies.

There's probably a few folks that might be disappointed with some of the inclusions on this week's list. Contentious? Um... yes.

And the writers have answered a reader question from last week - they don't write these over a few beers, just over lunch...

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Shaun Nichols , Iain Thomson | May 18, 2009

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

By Rosalie Marshall | May 18, 2009

EMC is set to add new data deduplication capabilities and virtualisation functionalities to its storage portfolio.

By Phil Muncaster | May 18, 2009

Mozilla's much hyped mobile web browser Fennec has finally been made available for the Windows Mobile operating system.

By Phil Muncaster | May 18, 2009

Microsoft is set to release next week the first beta of its long-awaited Visual Studio 2010 tools suite.

By Jon Herskovitz | May 18, 2009

South Korea's top technology university has developed a plan to power electric cars through recharging strips embedded in roadways that use a technology to transfer energy found in some electric toothbrushes.

By Phil Muncaster | May 18, 2009

McAfee has announced it is to acquire banking and retail software firm Solidcore Systems in a $43 million deal which will give the firm cutting edge whitelisting capabilities and access to the embedded devices market.

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