News to know: Adobe; Google; Dreamliner 787; Microsoft Office
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Ryan Naraine: Adobe confirms PDF zero-day attacks. Disable JavaScript now
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's Office team takes a page from the Windows play book
Andrew Nusca: Google Books search settlement: monopoly or public service?
- Christopher Dawson: Does Stephen Covey's Amazon deal change the e-book landscape?
- What do you give to the student who has everything?
Sam Diaz: Google talks display ad strategies, offerings
- Ed Burnette: Top 10 Google Phone rumors
The Dreamliner's first flight:
- Smart Planet: Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes flight
- Bad weather cuts 787's first flight short
- Marketing the 787 Dreamliner
- Boeing 787 basics
- The Dreamliner's first flight; Reports from the scene
- Boeing's Dreamliner (and future) ready for prime time
- Gallery: Boeing 787 takes off on its first flight
- At long last, Boeing's 787 takes flight
- 787 Dreamliner takes to the sky
Jennifer Leggio: Fifteen significant social media & security events of 2009
Oliver Marks: Increasing Business Intelligence Options for '10
Jason Perlow: The Best (and worst) of Tech Broiler 2009
Chris Jablonski: MIT updates bicycling with Copenhagen Wheel
Silicon Alley Insider: Bing Crushes Yahoo Again In November
Larry Dignan: Adobe caps rough fiscal year; Sees demand improve
Heather Clancy: Out with the old, in with the new. Storage that is.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 breaks 6% in global usage share
- DRM FAIL: Microsoft locks users out from own documents
- Dan Kusnetzky: Desktop virtualization and Windows 7
Dancho Danchev: Report: Google's reCAPTCHA flawed
Sam Diaz: WSJ: EU likes Oracle's MySQL statement; poised to approve deal
- Dana Blankenhorn: What Oracle gave up for the Sun it wanted
Matthew Miller: Top posts, devices, and smartphone awards for 2009
Yahoo's Bartz: Tiger's scandal "better than Michael Jackson dying"
Sean Portnoy: JVC introduces two new soundbar home theater systems, including one with super-thin amp
Nine ways IT can help organizations 'go green' and reduce paper consumption
Comcast renames TV Everywhere, launches nationally
Foley: Microsoft pulls beta of Chinese microblogging service; blames third-party developer
Forrester: IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5 is "Click to conference"
Jason O'Grady: 64GB NAND flash modules could make HDD iPods extinct
- Scratch that DJ itch with Flare Scratch
- Chrome bumps Safari from No. 3 browser spot
- Another (fake) iTablet video
Tom Foremski: Is being shy a new type of digital divide?
Giga Om: The Problem With Android Market's Growth
Michael Krigsman: Why projects fail: Obstacles and solutions
Kingsley-Hughes: Games consoles aren't dying, but they sure could do with a refresh
Best Buy delivers solid quarter as home office, electronics sales rise
LA Times: Stock-options charges dismissed against Broadcom's Henry Nicholas and William Ruehle
Nusca: Buy 200GB of Google cloud storage, get free Eye-Fi memory card
Doug Hanchard: Days to go before Christmas and you're running out of ideas for gifts
Communitizing the community with community tools
Is open source a train anyone can stop?
Dana Blankenhorn: Health reform two-step still possible
BusyBox violation suits under the Chanukah bush
Rachel King: Nintendo sending pink, blue Wiimotes to America next year
158-lens camera breaks Guinness world record
Australia mulls mandatory ISP filtering
TechCrunch: JS-Kit Finally Ditches Its Name, Rebrands As Echo With Some Big Partners In Tow
PC World: Smartphone Sales Increase Disappoints, Says Gartner
Zack Whittaker: Google's ominous homepage New Year's countdown
Digital Britain government report: Six months on
Hard Mac.com: Details concerning the Xeon processors with 6 cores