News to know: IE 8 anticipation; LiveJournal sold; Facebook's fumble
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Users clamoring again for an Internet Explorer 8 update. Ryan Naraine: IE vs Firefox: Microsoft crunches security numbers.
Dan Farber: Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine. Techmeme. CA: Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in. Social nets and identity fragmentation.
Six Apart jettisons LiveJournal. Reuters: Blog site LiveJournal sold to Russian partner 
New York Times: Vivendi to Acquire Activision.
Matthew Miller: First impressions of the HTC Touch Dual with new finger-optimized photo application. Image Gallery: First look at the HTC Touch Dual.
Boston Globe: One Laptop Per Child orders surge. Christopher Dawson: OLPC sees charitable and government orders. And more from the OLPC front.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's OEM chief defects to Lenovo. Microsoft goes in search of unified-communications developers.
Secondlife: A+ for proactive security.
Lessig blog: Some important news from Wikipedia to understand clearly.
Joe McKendrick: The new corporate intranet, Web 2.0 style.
Michael Krigsman: Largest Adobe Flash crash in the world (right). Wachovia: $211 trillion "word-processing error"
Ed Bott: How green is your PC? Harry Fuller: Green gifts for the holidays: fuel cell car and solar home. Heather Clancy: Survey points up green tech communications gap. Tom Foremski: Plastic is good for our environment (and computers).
YourSearch Advisor: Google Apps presentation in Ann Arbor. Dan Farber: JotSpot to power new Google Sites in 2008.
Dana Blankenhorn: Is Sun still a bully?
Ryan Naraine: Apple QuickTime under siege. David Berlind: Some brutal honesty about the iPhone's faults, and about that need for 3G (or 3.5G).
Paula Rooney: Mono code broken into 3 modules, MonoDevelop 1.0 to ship in January.
David Berlind: Video of my Out-of-Box experience with Amazon's Kindle (and some quick impressions).
Roland Piquepaille: A new look at virtual autopsies.
Adrian Kingsley Hughes: The ultimate secret to faster and reliable Windows.
Russell Shaw: BlackBerry 9000 will have faster processor than current iPhone.
Larry Dignan: It's official: Google will bid in 700 Mhz wireless auction. Office 2007 gets official mobile compatibility.