News to know: Microsoft patches; Office 14; Intuit; SAP

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Mary Jo Foley: Office 14: The (near) silence is deafening

Ryan Naraine: Hackers exploiting (unpatched) IE 7 flaw to launch drive-by attacks

• MS Patch Tuesday whopper: 28 vulnerabilities in Windows, IE, Office
• Dancho Danchev: Vint Cerf's Twitter account hacked, suspended for spam

Larry Dignan: Intuit's TurboTax printing fees raise users' ire

• CNET News: Which tax-prep service can you afford?

  

Dennis Howlett: Breaking: SAP maintenance price hike: partial victory

• Dignan: SAP's partial price retreat: A sign of things to come?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 69xx builds - Coming along nicely!

• Windows 7 build 6956 (right)
• Could Snow Leopard leave Windows 7 eating its dust?
• Ed Bott: DirecTV kills its Media Center tuner project

John Morris: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Laptop picks by the inch

• Andrew Nusca: Lenovo: PC industry consolidation coming, acquisitions possible
• Acer trumps Asus as netbook king
• Lenovo slashes IdeaPad S10 prices
• Are Apple's new Macbooks 'cranky'?

Paul Murphy: Creating a sales infrastructure for Sun

News.com: HP laptops to sport long-lasting ‘Enviro’ batteries

Sean Portnoy: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Three Ultimate HDTVs

Matthew Miller: Skype Lite now available for some S60 devices

• Smartphone purchasing considerations to help you this holiday season
• Want a subsidized Acer netbook for $99?
• Larry Dignan: Android needs more U.S. carrier support
• Open Handset Alliance announces 14 new members
• AT&T testing Femtocells to boost in-home cell phone signals

Kingsley-Hughes: 300GB 2.5" SAS drives from HP

Jason O'Grady: Apple should add books to the iTunes Store

Dancho Danchev: With or without McColo, spam volume increasing again

Dana Blankenhorn: Go med young man

• The golden rule of health IT?
• More on Symbian
• Appcelerator launching open source AIR competitor

Michael Krigsman: Preventing failure with third-party IT watchdogs [podcast]

Larry Dignan: Forrester: 2009 IT spending will be anemic with a 2010 bounce

Richard Koman: British watchdog backs down over Wikipedia image of nude girl

• MSFT says it will reduce data retention if Google will

Paul Miller: Zemanta talks Linked Data with SDK and commercial API

• Metatomix at work with County Court system in Florida

Sam Diaz: There is an e-mail revolution underway; Google raises stakes against online Outlook

• Google launches to-do lists; You'd think an email revolution was underway
• Ryan Stewart: Native Client: Google's (other) plugin play

Paula Rooney: Springsource, VMware partner to create enterprise Java VMs, appliances

• Microsoft debuts early test version of Oxite open source blogging engine
• Dan Kusnetzky: IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeating

NYT: Mumbai Terrorists Relied on New Technology for Attacks

Phil Wainewright: NetSuite rises in land of the sun

Dana Gardner: Remote support offers enterprises avenue to cut operational costs while improving IT systems reliability

Sony: What went wrong (and is still going wrong)

Zack Whittaker: University music tax: sharing and caring?

Adam O'Donnell: Think tank releases cybersecurity roadmap for Obama administration

Walmart iPhone deal could be big for Apple

PE Hub Blog: Ex-VC Joins Google's M&A Department

Christopher Dawson: Will Virgin Killer be a Wikipedia killer?

34% of employed email users check their email on vacations

Dell, EMC expand storage partnership