News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone

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Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending

• Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo
• Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales

• Larry Dignan: AMD: Fourth quarter sales to fall 25 percent sequentially

Jason D. O'Grady: Say hello to the $99 iPhone

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Would a $99 price tag turn the iPhone into a RAZR?
• Andrew Nusca: More rumors: Apple to sell $99 iPhone at Walmart

Garett Rogers: Where is Google's SMS feature?

EIC podcast: Yahoo trial balloons; Mumbai and Twitter; E-commerce

James Farrar:Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?

Sean Portnoy: Buffalo Technology moves closer to returning to U.S. Wi-Fi router market

Ryan Naraine: Secunia: Less than 2% of Windows PCs fully patched

Robin Harris: Seagate's "random freeze" problem: worse than reported?

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to tweak 'compatibility view' with next IE 8 test build

Andrew Nusca: Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Sam Diaz: Facebook Connect goes live; Tell your favorite Web site

Dion Hinchcliffe: The emerging case for open business methods

Dana Blankenhorn: Can the Internet drive a health care consensus?

• First test arrives of Obama promise to transform health IT

Heather Clancy: First cell towers, now solar panels? Expect squawking over "appropriate" sites

Harry Fuller: American auto industry low on fuel and popular support

Matthew Miller: Gartner Q3 2008 data shows iPhone passes Windows Mobile and Nokia has first decline

• PDAmill launches eight games for the iPhone/iPod touch, most 99 cents
• Turn your iPod touch into a VoIP phone with Truphone
• iPod touch gets VoIP, steals some iPhone thunder

Paul Miller: Metatomix seeks to bridge divide between structured and unstructured information

VIDEO: Where's Netbook's niche?

Jason D. O'Grady: 588 Kleiner Perkins iFund developers accidentally leaked to Web

Mary Jo Foley: Former Yahoo exec to head Microsoft Online Services; Former aQuantive chief quits

•  Microsoft Big Brains: Dave Campbell

Sam Diaz: NYT takes new approach, taps blogs to keep readers informed

Larry Dignan: Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud

Matthew Miller: I just ordered the Agora Pro Google Android device for less than $300

Joe McKendrick: Market player machinations may warp, but not 'kill', SOA

Andrew Kingsley-Hughes: Clearing up the 32/64-bit memory limit confusion

Michael Krigsman: Coding Slave: 'Software is expensive'

Larry Dignan:  i2, JDA call off merger

Andrew Nusca:Vintage gadgets on display in NYC

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Opera 10.0 alpha 1 is impressive, but does it stand a chance against Firefox?

Paul Greenberg: CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

 The cost of solar cells

Dancho Danchev: With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crack

• Password stealing malware masquerades as Firefox add-on

Dana Blankenhorn: Is China an open source friend or foe?

• Open source does not need new buzzwords

Dennis Howlett: LeWeb sold out

Dave Greenfield: WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business

Dan Kusnetzky: Owen Bird Law Corporation a Virtual Iron Customer

Ed Burnette: Schwartz: Three reasons you need JavaFX

• JavaFX Q&A

Paula Rooney: IBM launches first Linux-OpenOffice desktop with virtualization features

Roland Piquepaille: Nuclear fusion as future power source