News to know: HP; Google; IE 7 zero day flaw; Office; Drobo
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Andrew Nusca: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Best Bluetooth headsets
Sam Diaz: HP reports Q4; raises outlook for 2010
Larry Dignan: Analyst: News Corp.'s Google saber rattling really about MySpace
- Tom Foremski: What if the search-index was run by a non-profit? GOOG founders once supported that idea
- Sam Diaz: Google to beef up display ads with acquisition of Teracent
Ryan Naraine: Exploit published for critical IE 7 zero-day flaw
Opera patches 'extremely severe' security hole
Matthew Miller: Windows Mobile is better than you think
Joe McKendrick: SOA Manifesto: Manes explains manifesto's aims
Doug Hanchard: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around? (Part 4)
Mary Jo Foley: Office Starter 2010: The fine print on Microsoft's Works replacement
Andrew Nusca: AT&T, Apple to Verizon: 'Can your phone and your network do that?'
Android 1.6 officially receives Google Maps Navigation
Data Robotics debuts enterprise-ready DroboElite, five-bay Drobo S
- Robin Harris: Light Peak: black hole
Larry Dignan: LinkedIn's platform debut: Late but important
- LinkedIn: LinkedIn Platform: Open for Business
- Reuters: Twitter's Biz Stone says could go IPO route
Dennis Howlett: Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance
Bloomberg: GE Said to Lean Toward IPO of Vivendi's 20% Stake in NBC Universal Unit
Sam Diaz: Apple's Schiller defends app approval process; misses the point
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Apple being too precious about the App Store?
- Jason O'Grady: Apple's latest TV ads defend AT&T
- Another Apple Black Friday leak rumor - with prices!
- Apple to smokers: butt out or void your warranty
- Apple's Black Friday sale to include online shoppin
- New iPhone worm found in the wild
- Andrew Nusca: Apple iPhone sales rise in Europe after end of exclusivity agreements
- Digital Daily: Apple Joins AT&T/Verizon Spat With New iPhone Ads
Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)
Joe McKendrick: Cyber Monday approaches -- should companies clamp down on employee online shopping?
Matthew Miller: Did HTC address Windows Mobile 6.5's initial shortcomings?
Rachel King: LG and AT&T join forces on X120 netbook
- Andrew Nusca: TI introduces eZ430-Chronos, 'world's first customizable development environment within a sports watch'
- Admob: Droid and Android army make big browsing splash
- Online retailers, marketing firms scam consumers for $1.4 billion
Paul Greenberg: Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
Paid Content: MSNBC.com Taking Over @BreakingNews Twitter Feed; Signs On As BNO News' First Client
Michael Krigsman: Social computing and the enterprise, part one
Christopher Dawson: Falling behind in science? No kidding!
Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?
Jason Perlow: Hands on with new Roku Channel Store; is cable TV still worth the cost?
- Roku becomes cloud-enabled with new Roku Channel Store and Developer SDK
- Stupid DROID Tricks, Volume 1
Jennifer Leggio: Quick'n'Dirty episode 23: TripIt and Twitter lists top talk
Large Hadron Collider back in operation
Heather Clancy: Video: Adura commercial lighting technology saves on power costs
- Harry Fuller: U.S. will propose emissions reduction before Copehagen talks
- GM: not doing well, but going back to the well anyway
- Could global warming be self-limiting?
Zack Whittaker: Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for good
Chrome OS: More questions than answers?
Brainstorm Tech: Does AT&T turn into a pumpkin in June?
Dana Blankenhorn: Google goes all-in with an open source cloud
The medical home is reform without objections, so far
Dan Kusnetzky: Microsoft Windows Azure and SQL Azure
Bloomberg: Zynga May Be Valued at $1 Billion on Facebook Craze
Andrew Nusca: AOL ditches the triangle; previews new brand identity, logos
- Sergey Brin: Google Android, Chrome OS likely to converge
- Verizon debuts Samsung Omnia II; Dec. 2 for $200
Diaz: Meet Pearltrees: Bookmarks with a social twist
Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency