News to know: Verizon, Ballmer, Facebook, Atom, Firefox
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Verizon inks ad deal with Microsoft, annoys paying customers
Mary Jo Foley:Microsoft CEO Ballmer to be bounced in 2010? No way
Sam Diaz: Facebook's 2009 status update trends: What did you say?
Larry Dignan: Will Intel's Atom overhaul fuel another netbook boom?
- Andrew Nusca: Intel announces 'Pine Trail' Atom processors in time for CES; has the netbook grown up?
- CNET: Intel launches new Atom chip for netbooks
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.5: World's most popular browser
Andrew Nusca: Fujitsu unveils ruby red LifeBook MH380 netbook; Intel Atom N450
Harry Fuller: Tracking and mapping air pollution
Michael Krigsman: Three success predictions for 2010
Harry Fuller: CopenHANGOVER: the blame game begins
Sean Portnoy: How thin do you need an HDTV to be? LG displays a 0.1-inch-thick LCD display
Zack Whittaker: Last minute geeky panic shopping ideas for students
CNET: No Nook by Christmas? Here's a $100 gift card
Dion Hinchcliffe: ZDNet's Enterprise Web 2.0: The top 10 posts of 2009
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Best buy of the decade
Heather Clancy: CES taps green partner to offset impact of massive tech confab
Phil Wainewright: Spare me your cloud security diatribes
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: 2010 Predictions/Wishlist
Michael Krigsman: Five failure predictions for 2010
Jennifer Leggio: Importance of external and internal collaboration
Ryan Naraine: Adobe plugs gaping holes in Flash Media Server
Matthew Miller: Hands-on: B&N nook updated to version 1.1.0
Andrew Nusca: Palm WebOS 1.3.5 coming at CES; faster, improved battery life, more app storage
Dana Gardner: HP's Cloud Assure for Cost Control allows elastic capacity planning to better manage cloud-based services
Andrew Nusca: Should mobile phones carry cancer warnings?
Andrew Nusca: The science behind the new BlackBerry optical trackpad
Mary Jo Foley: Former Microsoft CFO Liddell resurfaces as CFO of GM
- Larry Dignan: GM hires former Microsoft CFO Liddell as finance chief
Jason D. O'Grady: Top 20 posts of the year - Nos. 1-10
Dan Kusnetzky: Most read posts of 2009
Joe McKendrick: Top 10 SOA posts for 2009
Dana Blankenhorn: You sometimes read health IT stories in 2009
Andrew Nusca: Dell updates Inspiron Mini 10: new Intel Atom, design, longer battery life; $299
Mary Jo Foley: Near-final build of Microsoft 'Geneva Server' goes to testers
Larry Dignan: Your car, your hot spot and Ford's tech utopia
CNET: Mozilla hopes to finish Thunderbird 3.1 in April
Rachel King: Five wacky, maybe tempting iPod/iPhone accessories
Christopher Dawson: The best and worst Ed Tech of the decade
Dana Blankenhorn: Open source still lacked love for Windows in 2009
Larry Dignan: Google local Borg interruptus?
Paul Greenberg: Okay Here Goes - CRM Forecast 2010 - Part I