News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
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Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates (good and bad) maturation point of social media
- Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail
- Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks : Knowledge is Power
Larry Dignan: Icahn averages down on Yahoo; Searches for break even
- Icahn: 'I like Jerry'; Yahoo needs Microsoft search deal
- Techmeme: "Total Fiction:" There is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal to Buy Yahoo Search (Not Yet, at Least!)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Shopping - How do you do it?
- US Apple Store savings better, still hardly worth getting out of bed for
- Apple Store Australia/UK shows lackluster discounts
- Techmeme: Black Friday Web Sales Jump
Sean Portnoy: Surveys show consumers love HDTVs, but show some confusion about HD programming
Matthew Miller: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Portable digital video players
Garett Rogers: Microsoft still fighting a losing battle against Google
Phil Fersht: How should companies approach outsourcing in this economy?
Heather Clancy: IBM, HP update workflow and forms software with an eye to cutting paper waste
Richard Koman: The verdict: Lori Drew is guilty.
Heather Clancy: Catholic Church flirts with green tech of the solar sort
Jason D. O'Grady: The App Store hits a milestone: 10,000 apps
Jason Perlow: Christmas and Holiday Cards for Geeks
Paul Murphy: Some seriously good advice from "Narg"
Brian Sommer: Taleo: Management’s comments regarding their November to forget
Adam O'Donnell: Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base
Harry Fuller: Will Detroit run out of road?
Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #155, Nokia Legends, Lotus Notes on S60, & BlackBerry Storm
Zack Whittaker: Wired vs. wireless - security vs. speed
Dana Blankenhorn: How open should your open source business strategy be
- What might end Apple's open source pass
- Christopher Dawson: Crappy economy = great time for open source in schools
Sean Portnoy: Netgear readying Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9000 media-streaming device
Sam Diaz: SMS fees impacting Twitter feature
Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's Live launches malware detection service for webmasters
Garett Rogers: Your guide to disabling SearchWiki
Oliver Marks: Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall
David Morgenstern: Seagate offers fix for problematic Barracuda drives on Mac/Linux systems
Harry Fuller: Go, Carts, Go! Trumps "drill, baby, drill."
Roland Piquepaille: The fastest mandible strike in the world
Dan Kusnetzky: Business Service Automation: HP and Virtualization
Roland Piquepaille: The world's most powerful virtual telescope
Joanne Blamberger: Don’t call me a ‘mommyblogger’ - the Motrin brouhaha
Paul Miller: Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward
Dana Blankenhorn: Cyberchondria or did Microsoft miss market again?