News to know: Rigged PDFs; Obama's CTO; Android bug; Windows 7
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Jason Perlow: Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?
Ryan Naraine: Rigged PDFs exploiting just-patched Adobe Reader flaw
- 'Highly critical' vulnerabilities in VLC media player
- Michael Krigsman: Bank of Ireland: data breach repeat offender
- Zack Whittaker: Kicking Internet pirates off the web
- Paul Murphy: SPAM and the free lunch
- NYT: Internet Attacks Grow More Potent
Mary Jo Foley: The new rules for calculating Windows ship dates
- Sam Diaz: Windows 7 to arrive by 2009 holiday season
- Ed Bott: DirecTV's HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7's troubleshooting tools
Dan Farber: Obama's CTO: Watch out for the turf wars. Larry Dignan: Can the U.S. CTO avoid being steamrolled by bureaucracy?
Ed Burnette: Worst. Bug. Ever.
Garett Rogers: Microsoft is falling behind in mobile
Silicon Alley Insider: Cash Crunch At New York Times (NYT): $400 Million Due In May
Roland Piquepaille:Flying robots based on birds and insects
WSJ: Sun Expands ‘Open’ Storage LineSam Diaz: Questioning the reliability of an iPhone reliability study
- Jason O'Grady: PowerDock perfect fit for multi-iPod households
- Real-world iPhone tethering
- David Morgenstern: Last-generation MacBook Pros: Get 'em while you can
NYT: MGM to Post Full Films on YouTube, as Site Faces New Competition From Hulu
Sean Portnoy: Introducing the world's smallest 802.11n adapter
Heather Clancy: Expect pretty significant e-waste news this week
- Oliver Marks: Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?
- China and the e-waste industry it doesn't want you to see
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand
- Harry Fuller: Speculation among speculators: what's green under Obama?
News.com: Forensic tool detects pornography in the workplaceTom Steinert-Threlkeld: YouTube = AdTube. Why Not?
John Morris: More notebooks using two, and now three, GPUs
Rough Type: Zuckerberg's Second Law
A fraud ring or social networking - it's the same thing
Heather Clancy: Intel preps launch for latest power-optimized chip family
Dennis Howlett: Would you flip to Microsoft?
Marks: The Business Resource Planning Farm League
Honda's robotics foray continues: Unveils 'walking assist device'
Matthew Miller: TeleNav is riding Shotgun with their new personal navigation device
- Koman: When will we see White Space devices?
- Samsung overtakes Motorola in U.S. mobile phone market
- Sprint: Subscribers continue to bolt
Portnoy: Kmart Black Friday deal: $699.99 42-inch Samsung plasma
Foley: Why IE 8 won't use the WebKit rendering engine
Denise Howell: Barack Obama is male, taken, and CC licensed
- Zack Whittaker: Obama sets technology agenda; a high student focus
- Richard Koman: WhiteHouse.gov will never be the same
- Mark Cuban: PE Obama's 1st Big Mistake
Ballmer: We're not interested in Yahoo anymore
Dan Kusnetzky:What's next after server virtualization