News to know: Blackberry outage, Microsoft Word, Mozilla, Facebook, cybersecurity chief, Ribbit,

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Sam Diaz: Another Blackberry outage affects 100 percent of N. American customers

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft loses its appeal in $200-million-plus Custom XML patent infringement case

• Ed Bott: Microsoft removes Custom XML features from Office 2007

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Mozilla unveils Windows theme/UI update for Firefox 3.7/4.0

• Firefox for mobile "within the year"
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Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0: quo vadis?

Sam Diaz: White House names cybersecurity coordinator

• Doug Hanchard: New White House cybersecurity chief has his hands full, faces uphill battle beyond most

Jason O'Grady: Ribbit Mobile brings voicemail transcription to the iPhone

Larry Dignan: Google delivers open system treatise: Do you buy it?

Globe and Mail: BlackBerry outage sweeps North America

Heather Clancy: Verizon opens lab to demo green features of optical networks

• Green business organization provides environmental monitoring platform for members

Boy Genius Report: Israeli programmer hacks Kindle, breaks DRM protection

Michael Krigsman: Worldwide cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion

ThreatPost: Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam

Matthew Miller: Video of B&N nook 1.1 update and gallery of in-store retail experiences

Hanchard: Has Eliot Spitzer lost his faculty? Release AIG emails into the wild?

Copenhagen aftermath: Money left on the table, no signed treaty and zero innovation

Andrew Nusca: MSI Wind U160 leaked; Atom N450, $350, arriving at CES

• 27-inch iMac gets firmware update to address display issues
• Google Nexus One smartphone unboxed; demonstrated

Jason Hiner: Backupify drops paywall; backs up your data from Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail

Bits: Who Walked, Google or Yelp?

Harry Fuller: Which country is hot in 2010?

• Greentech blow back

Garett Rogers: Google to open search algorithm? Not in your lifetime

Dana Blankenhorn: Some unusually winning stories from 2009

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