News to know: HP; Apple patches; Microsoft; Social networking
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Sam Diaz: HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integration
Ryan Naraine: Apple mega-patch covers 34 Mac OS X security issues. Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update
- Exploit published for Windows Media Encoder flaw
- BusinessWeek site hacked, serving drive-by exploits
- Adam O'Donnell: The iPhone reset feature, or why throttling matters
- Dancho Danchev: Facebook introducing new security warning feature
Mary Jo Foley: What would Windows be without Win32?
- Microsoft joins the 'everyone but Apple' digital-media coalition
- Microsoft social-networking licensee on the rocks?
- Ed Bott: Is Microsoft aiming for an early Windows 7 launch?
Review: HTC Touch Diamond (Sprint)
Deb Perelman:Is it "reasonable" to ask IT job candidates to prove their skills?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: What's the big deal about the Firefox EULA?
Shuttleworth defends Firefox license in Ubuntu
Might Ubuntu and Firefox part ways because of the dreaded EULA?
John Morris: Acer, Toshiba and Sony push laptop displays to 18.4 inches
Bits: New iPhone Chip Will Cost an ARM and a Missile
- TechTrader Daily: Apple: Citi Says Sept. Qtr Tracking Ahead Of Street Ests; Contends Shipments Have Begun On New MacBooks
- Engadget Mobile: Verizon Blackberry Storm talking points slip out
Larry Dignan: Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Gauging Your Own Risk, On This Black Monday
Dana Blankenhorn: Epidemic surveillance under open source
- Paul Murphy: Using open source smarts to pick change agents
- Untangle changes the security game with open source
TechCrunch: Yahoo Bleeds Purple. And You Thought Microsoft's Marketing Campaign Was Weird Jennifer Leggio: Social networking enhances career growth -- only if used correctly
Harry Fuller: Cheap oil signal end of greentech bubble?
- Green tech that shimmers. Raleigh uses LEDs, aluminum flaps for convention center's new Cree Shimmer Wall
TechRepublic Video: Track a user's Internet Explorer History with IEHistoryView
Paul Miller: US money heads to European startup, Zemanta
- Semantics in Advertising
- Steve O'Hear: LinkedIn the ad network
- Facebook: no social networking here
- Mitch Ratcliffe: Inner8.com launches: Here are 100 early access invites to new stock site
NEC tees up six-core Intel Dunnington server
PaidContent: Amazon Does the Obvious, Finally: Adds Video on IMDb
Joe McKendrick: 'Business event processing' now in the spotlight
News.com: Peru to try out Windows on XO laptops
Review: Apple iPod Touch (second generation, 32GB)
Sean Portnoy: Wi-Fi for your bathtub?
Matthew Miller: HTC announces 3 new TouchFLO Windows Mobile devices
- Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 media preview event in London
- MobileTechRoundup show #147, New MP3 players, new HTC devices and more
Dana Blankenhorn: Google steals Microsoft code and you should cheer
Dana Gardner: Desktone, Wyse bring Flash content to desktop virtualization delivery
VMware (and Citrix) get cloud friendly
Dan Kusnetzky:SteelEye Technology Announces DR for Hyper-V
Best Buy acquires Napster; Eyes digital music distribution
Jason O'Grady: Banned App Podcaster forced underground (updated)
Andrew Nusca: In-flight Internet: Web sites, but not phone callsCall off the dogs--authentication solution already in enterprise-class PCs