News to know: Malware infects Google search; IT disaster; Macworld 08; Alienware review
Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Sunbelt Software: Google search results delivering massive malware attacks. Techmeme.
Globes: In global precedent, Google to hand over blogger's IP address.
The top 10 IT disasters of all time.
Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test. David Morgenstern: Macs that hate Adobe fonts, love Microsoft ones. Jason O'Grady: Handicapping Macworld Expo San Francisco '08. Mary Jo Foley: Ray Ozzie MIA from Microsoft's Mix '08 line-up. The happiest Vista customers: Mac users?
Photos: Geeky gift--Shocking Tanks (right). News.com: Yahoo's Cyber Monday mess finally fixed. Yodel Anecdotal: Cyber Monday into Resolution Tuesday.
David Berlind: If Skype was disruptive to telcos, then Cubic Telecom is their nightmare (and good for you)
Online library offers 1.5 million works and counting Ryan Stewart: Silverlight 1.1 tools available for Visual Studio 2008. New Buzzword coming tomorrow.
IBM unveils customer service telecom software
Google to enter clean-energy business
- Larry Dignan: Google’s big green energy goal: A distraction?
- Mary Jo Foley: Will Microsoft follow Google into the renewable-energy black hole?
- Heather Clancy: Google's latest ambition: Create renewable power that’s cheaper than coal.
- Harry Fuller: Renewable amp-up: HP invests in solar, wind energy resources.
Google Lat Long: Explore new terrain.
Dave Greenfield: Eight Traits for Building Collaborative Teams
Dan Farber: Seven tenets of the information workspace
Dana Blankenhorn: IBM's push into medical services.
Greenpeace hands game industry low score.
FCC backs away from cable regulation plan Larry Dignan: Verizon Wireless to publish network technical details. Matthew Miller: So you can bring a Sprint phone to Verizon, what’s the big deal? Techmeme.
Christopher Dawson: The Devon IT thin clients are headed back, but thin really is in
Dell to offer Google search devices to businesses.
Dana Blankenhorn: Mulberry open source code is now out.
Ars Technica: New plastic optical fiber could solve the "last mile" conundrum. Larry Dignan: Mozilla patches Firefox latest protocol handling bug; other items. Google’s Gdrive allegedly coming; Still late to the party.
Photos: Black Friday's hottest buys (right).
Roland Piquepaille: A cancer-resistant mouse? Reuters: Analog Devices net falls amid charges.
ReadWriteWeb: Brightcove Gives Up on Consumer Video.
Paul Murphy: The Personal computer as seen from Indianapolis, Wolfsburg, and points intermediate