News to know: Google storage; More Firefox 3 betas; Home grown all in one PCs
Notable headlines:
WSJ: Google plans service to store users' data.
Paula Rooney: Mozilla plans 2 more Firefox 3 betas, ~500,000 copies of beta 1 downloaded to date
Jeremy Allison: What I learned from my buggy code. Who should bear the burden of de-fanging botnets?
Richard Stiennon: Hacking for profit. SEO techniques.
Ed Bott: Five secrets to faster Vista starts
George Ou: The $363 19-inch dual-core all-in-one LCD PC. Gallery (above right).
Paula Rooney: JBoss, Apache founders engage in war of words on the web.
Michael Krigsman: Lost UK National Health Service (NHS) data found! Larry Dignan: Latest QuickTime bug leaves XP, Vista vulnerable. News.com: Apple acknowledges some MacBook hard drive problems.
David Berlind: Tech Shakedown: Kodak's Web site charging outrageous per-photo shipping fees.
Christopher Dawson: Anyone out there using Twitter in the classroom?
New tool from MIT makes online lectures genuinely useful
AppleTell: Top 15 Leopard Hints. Photos: Holiday tech gifts we don't recommend (right).
Dan Farber: HP debuts Automated Operations 1.0.
Mary Jo Foley: What's on tap for Windows Live Messenger 9? Add Siberia to Microsoft's datacenter locale list.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Vista SP1 benefit will be stability and reliability, not performance.
Ryan Stewart: Zoho Writer opens up read AND write offline functionality. Offline editing comes to Zoho Writer.
The decline of Black Friday. Techmeme on Black Friday, Cyber Monday.
Photos: When tech tunes your guitar (right).
Dana Blankenhorn: There are two enterprise markets. Dennis Howlett: Applying the transparency taste test.
Larry Dignan: External drives: The hot gift this season? Robin Harris: How smart is SMART?
The Engadget Interview: Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility.
Richard Koman: Feds seek cell positioning data without warrants
News.com: ABC News reaching out to Facebook users? Good luck, guys.
Chris Matyszczyk: Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania? Steve O'Hear: Facebook's Beacon and the need for social networking literacy.
Matthew Miller: Nokia N95-1 firmware updated with demand paging capability.
Roland Piquepaille: A supercomputer to design better plants?