News to know: Black market zero days; Microsoft security; BlackBerry Bold; SAP
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Dancho Danchev: Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving
Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security
Josh Taylor: Hands on with the BlackBerry Bold
CNET News: Salesforce.com extends cloud computing service
- Phil Wainewright: At last, this is how websites should be built
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Tech Busts, Two: 2008 Worse For Blue Chips Than 2000
Dennis Howlett: SAP: Claus Heinrich resigns from executive board
Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week (right)
TechRepublic: 10 dumb things IT pros do that can mess up their networks
Sam Diaz: Should Facebook be tapping users for cash?
- TechCrunch: Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again.
- VentureBeat: What we know and what we don't know about Facebook's finances
Ed Bott: Clearing up the Windows Live confusion
Christopher Dawson: One more reason for Classmate to step up
Brian Sommer: SAP, Oracle, SaaS - The changing ERP market
- BE (Bearingpoint) - Up for sale?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Software and business method patents take a hit
- Joe McKendrick: SOA fear factor
- Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?
- Forrester: Better late than never: Microsoft Office Web apps percolating
Robert Scoble: Never underestimate Microsoft's ability to turn a corner
Oliver Marks: FaceBook Virgin Airlines Fiasco
Dana Blankenhorn: The health IT archipelago
Kingsley-Hughes: Stop Blu-ray discs from phoning home with AnyDVD HD
- Robin Harris: Blu-ray is dead: the sequel
Sean Portnoy: Survey reveals favorite ISPs around the United States. None of them is Comcast.
Deb Perelman:My Awesome IT Job: Enterprise Architect, IBM
TechRepublic: The five fundamentals of IT consulting
LA Times Blog: MySpace, MTV Networks team with Auditude to profit from online video
Heather Clancy: AMD updates global climate protection goals
- IBM's management and testing software updated with energy conservation in mind
- The greening of meetings: Brought to you by emerging technology
- Harry Fuller: Follow the money
- Green tech company hits the red, and the panic button
Larry Dignan: IBM sues brainiac looking to leap to Apple; Download the docs
The Guardian: Amnesty criticises Global Network Initiative for online freedom of speech
How to: Filtering unwanted music in iTunes (right)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:Highlights from NetApplications data for October - Linux market share drops
- Linux to out ship Windows by next year ... maybe not!
- Paul Murphy: A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS X
- Dana Gardner: BriefingsDirect Analysts take Microsoft's pulse: Will the software giant peak in next few years?
- Dana Blankenhorn: Intel breaks up Wintel through Asus WePC deal
San Francisco Chronicle: Salesforce.com CEO's head is still in a ‘cloud’Dennis Howlett: No recession in Joyent's cloud
Jennifer Leggio: Cool Tools - TwitterScope threads Twitter's tweets
Dawson: Enough already with the Luddite schools
Jason O'Grady: Netflix Watch Instantly comes to the Mac
Zack Whittaker: Managing your PDF's student style
Gallery: Best Windows software for a hard-hit economy (right)
Garett Rogers: New Gmail SMS feature delayed for two weeks
Dana Blankenhorn: The Twiki fork, a takeover opportunity?
Sean Portnoy: Dell updates XPS One with 24-inch 1080p screen
Roland Piquepaille:Using lasers to watch electrons in action
Michael Krigsman: Let's meet at Dreamforce in San Francisco
NYT: 30 Seconds to Boot Up? That's 29 Too ManyJason O'Grady: Episode 95: PowerPage Podcast
Matthew Miller: Will we see Windows Mobile 6.5 before 7?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: 100,000 Sony batteries recalled
Tom Foremski: Sorting through the promises of virtualization
Andrew Nusca: Weekend Gadget Guidance: Preview fonts before installing
Mission accomplished: Google's ad deal with Yahoo has already worked
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