News to know: Windows rot; Touch PCs; Palm Pre sales guesses; Apple

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows bit-rot - fact or fiction?

Jason O'Grady: Has Apple gotten lazy?

• Apple quietly releases iLife '09 hardware up-to-date program

Mary Jo Foley: Maybe we'll see Win 7 and Office 14 launch together, after all

• Yes or no: Is Microsoft going to keep making Zunes?

Zack Whittaker: Touch: the most evil technology in modern computing

• Touch-enabled PCs and browsers: Do not want
• N-Trig: N-trig Secures $24 Million of New Funding to Fuel Hands-on computing™ Growth in Global PC Market

Gallery: Getting to know the Nyko Kama Charge Kit (right)

PaidContent: Newsgator Secures $10M Sixth Round Funding; $39M Raised To Date  ReadWriteWeb: R.I.P. Enterprise RSS

Larry Dignan: Palm Pre sales guesstimate: 1.5 million

• Matthew Miller: Will Microsoft's limiting of devices allow them to react faster in the mobile space?
• Rapid mobile OS development hurting Windows Mobile
• Is this HTC's 2009 product roadmap?

Phil Wainewright: Hooray, 2009 starts with a SaaS backlash

• Sam Diaz: Survey: More SaaS development in 2009
• Dana Gardner: Workday builds out SaaS bellwether for human capital management services and costs controls
• Forrester: Should your email live in the cloud?
• Dan Kusnetsky: Are appliances the answer?
• Paul Murphy: Storage choices

Tom Foremski: Intel wants WiMAX to lead Obama's tech initiativesMichael Krigsman: Former Ace Hardware CIO on IT failure [podcast]

Brian Sommer: SAP & Oracle - Settling or Nettling?

Dana Blankenhorn: Kentucky tries to lead health IT train

• McKinsley blames technology for our health care woes
• Every project needs an entrepreneur

PaidContent: Major Shake-up At Sling Media: Krikorian Brothers, Hirschhorn, White, Wilkes Leaving

• Sam Diaz: Sling founders, execs leaving EchoStar

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The cause behind the Zune's "New Year's Eve" mass suicide

• The iPhone "nano" makes no sense to me

Heather Clancy: Lenovo, Toshiba earn props in second annual Greenpeace green tech surveySANS Institute: CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

Ed Burnette: Browsing Android Source in Eclipse

Deb Perelman: Will it be impossible to change jobs this year?

Fortune: Nokia's North America problem

Andrew Nusca: HTC to launch touchscreen iPhone, Palm Pre competitor. Smarthouse: EXCLUSIVE: HTC To Launch New Touch Phone Says Telstra

• LG Display signs LCD supply deal with Apple
• CES 2009: Five important technologies this year
• Robin Harris: Best storage at CES 2009
• Jason Hiner: The Best of CES 2009, for business
• Photos: VHS at CES 2009: Still alive

Nine Web sites IT pros should master in 2009

Ryan Stewart: Brightcove adds some new leadership talent

Harry Fuller: LOHAFEX: trying to iron out the climate problem

• Heather Clancy: Getting a charge the wireless way

ReadWriteWeb: YouTube.gov: U.S. Congress Comes to YouTube

Richard Koman: NSA initiative pinpoints 25 Top coding errors

• McKinnon will plead guilty to stay in UK
• China includes MSN in list of porn sites
• Why Obama will lose his BlackBerry
• Electric cars level automaker playing field

Jason O'Grady: Griffin Clarifi nails it

• The Onion presents the MacBook Wheel
• Skype released for Android, iPhone app to follow?

INQ Mobile boasts a handset made for social networks (right)Intel unveils tablet Classmate PC design

New Microsoft ads: 'It's Everybody's Business'

Is OpenOffice.org a 'dying horse'?

• Blankenhorn: What Meeks means by OpenOffice being sick

Adobe takes LiveCycle developer tools to Amazon Web Services

Seagate names Luczo CEO; Watkins out Signs of Armageddon: We're worrying about CO2 emissions of a Google search

Harry Fuller: GM makes headlines if not profits