News to know: Macworld; Windows 7; Snow Leopard; Web 2.0 security; IT strategy

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Ed Bott: Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7

Mary Jo Foley: Macs vs. PCs: Is it still a 'tax' if users happily pay a premium?

• Larry Dignan: Apple's Jobs being treated for 'hormone imbalance'; Will remain at helm
• Philip Schiller's Macworld keynote detail just got easier
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• Infinite Loop: Macworld.ars: Company may have spilled Mac mini beans
• David Morgenstern: FileMaker 10 looks to be the real deal
• Garett Rogers: Google launches Picasa for the Mac
• CNETNews: Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music, new pricing

Morgenstern: Mac OS X Snow Leopard: What price? Jennifer Leggio: Naivete: Web 2.0's biggest security threat

Foley: It takes a lot to dismantle an Empire. Microsoft reorg season begins: Muglia gets the presidential nod

CNET News: Microsoft elevates server unit, promotes Muglia

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Seagate crams 329 gigabits of data per square inch

• Sean Portnoy: Iomega launches new low-price Home Media Network Hard Drives

WMP 12 toxic to certain MP3 files

Michael Krigsman: Five strategies for 2009 IT gold

• Brian Sommer: Service firms to struggle in 2009
• HP's SaaS PPM solution
• Phil Wainewright: Debunking myths about the SaaS partner channel
• TechRepublic: 10 things you can do to ensure career survival in 2009
• Dana Gardner: A technical look at how parallel processing brings vast new capabilities to large-scale BI and data analysis

Paula Rooney: Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source over next 5 years

• Dana Blankenhorn: Benefits of a commercial open source arm
• Should open source boycott Microsoft?
• TechRadar: Stallman: “we still have a fight on our hands”

Review: Vizio VOJ370F (right)

2009 the year for predictive health start-ups

Times of London: Sony on brink of upheaval as analysts back British chief

Infoworld: IBM employees buzzing about layoff rumors

Sam Diaz: The future of Blu-Ray? Watch porn

Paul Murphy: Storage networks

CNet News: Browser add-on makes Flickr's galleries faster

Christopher Dawson: Perlow may be a dinosaur, but the kids aren't

• Are we spoon-feeding our users too much?

Matthew Miller: CES2009: MSI announces Wind netbooks with SSD/HDD and WiMAX/3.5G

• Soonr and Evernote sync documents to the cloud for iPhone acc

  

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• Review: BodyGuardz T-Mobile G1 Google Android skin. Gallery right.
• Nokia was the world's largest computer maker in 2008
• Quick iPhone app review: craigsphone craigslist application lets you create and view posts

John Morris: Lenovo's latest laptops and first all-in-one desktop

• Lenovo shows off 16-inch thin laptop; Launches all-in-one PC, dual-screen mobile workstation

Heather Clancy: It's a "guster": Oil town (Houston) flirts with wind power

Harry Fuller: The 2009 Green Wars Being Fought Now

Jennifer Leggio: FOXNews apparent victim of Twitter phishing attack

• ReadWriteWeb: Updated: Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked
• Mitch Ratcliffe: Twitter authority frenzy led to Twitter phish
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• Coming to search results near you: corporate blogs worth reading
• Andrew Mager: Meet Mr. Tweet, your personal Twitter assistant

Zack Whittaker: Outsourcing email, opening communications

• New Year's resolution: de-crap your desk of (most) technology

Jason Perlow: At $99, Roku rulez with incredible future potential

Look ‘Ma! A Drive-In Theatre for Ants!

Gallery: Texas Instruments Pico DLP Developer Kit (right)

Obsessable: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 HD features highest-density hard drive storage to date

Sam Diaz: Love or hate this post? Sound off for the eavesdroppers

Dan Kusnetzky: The difficulties of being virtual

China gives jail time to Windows counterfeiters

Freescale and ARM promise $200 netbooks

Richard Koman: China cracks down on porn

Linux pioneer moves from Red Hat to Intel

2009: The year in preview