News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade

Notable headlines:

Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08
• Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?
• Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory
• Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008 earnings: revenue up 38%; Mac shipments up 41% (updated)
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Ed Bott: Sony's amazing crapware-free PC

• Dignan: Dear OEM: Ditch the crapware, you'll make up the revenue elsewhere

Sam Diaz: Brocade to acquire Foundry in $3 Billion deal

Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive (right)

Ed Bott: First hints of Microsoft's 'fight back' ads appear

Joshua Greenbaum: Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow

• SAP to shut down TomorrowNow; Oracle gets its sacrifice

TechRepublic: How TechRepublic cracked open the iPhone 3G

• Was Bob Microsoft's worst product ever?
• 7 enterprise management tools for shops with a tight budget

Tom Foremski: Updated:Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?

News.com: Adobe revs media player, signs up Sony

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Intel cuts Core 2 and Xeon prices

NY Times: Smaller PCs Cause Worry for Industry

LCD TVs recommended over plasma TVs in retail, Samsung and Sony top recommended brands

Sam Diaz: McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringement

• SanDisk reports loss; stock takes beating after-hours

Dignan: Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Assessing winners and losers

• Diaz: AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat
• Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Icahn says he can't
• Video: Beyond the Icahn-Yahoo honeymoon

Matthew Miller: Sprint and Verizon release Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrades for existing devices

Phil Wainwright: Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud

TechCrunch: MySpace To Join OpenID, Bringing Total Enabled Accounts to Over A Half Billion

Christopher Dawson: Please tell me an actual Apple netbook is on the way

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers Home Server data-corruption fix in P

• New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePoint

Ryan Naraine: Has Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability?

• Jason O'Grady: iPhone 3G Pwned
• Nate McFeters: 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
• Dancho Danchev: Kaspersky's Malaysian site hacked by Turkish hacker
• Photos: Tracking Last HOPE hackers (right)

O'Grady: WordPress client for iPhone imminentDana Blankenhorn: Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?

Paul Murphy: Apache's open source governance model

Heather Clancy:Smart grid players extend their influence beyond the pilot phase

• Andrew Nusca: Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?

Janice Chen: Panasonic announces four new Lumix cameras: F

Steve O'Hear: A few thoughts on Facebook's redesign

• Richard Koman: Facebook sues German 'clone'
• VentureBeat: Analysis: Facebook's redesign aimed at Silicon Valley, not everywhere else

Photos: Great Red Spot eats 'Baby'

Dan Kusnetzky: SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer

Kingsley-Hughes: The computer mouse set to die out in the next five years? Don't bet on it!

AMD on road to recovery, says research firm