News to know: Blackberry outage, Microsoft Word, Mozilla, Facebook, cybersecurity chief, Ribbit,
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Sam Diaz: Another Blackberry outage affects 100 percent of N. American customers
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft loses its appeal in $200-million-plus Custom XML patent infringement case
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Mozilla unveils Windows theme/UI update for Firefox 3.7/4.0
Does Facebook really lead to divorce?
Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0: quo vadis?
Sam Diaz: White House names cybersecurity coordinator
- Doug Hanchard: New White House cybersecurity chief has his hands full, faces uphill battle beyond most
Jason O'Grady: Ribbit Mobile brings voicemail transcription to the iPhone
Larry Dignan: Google delivers open system treatise: Do you buy it?
Globe and Mail: BlackBerry outage sweeps North America
Heather Clancy: Verizon opens lab to demo green features of optical networks
Boy Genius Report: Israeli programmer hacks Kindle, breaks DRM protection
Michael Krigsman: Worldwide cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion
ThreatPost: Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam
Matthew Miller: Video of B&N nook 1.1 update and gallery of in-store retail experiences
Hanchard: Has Eliot Spitzer lost his faculty? Release AIG emails into the wild?
Copenhagen aftermath: Money left on the table, no signed treaty and zero innovation
Andrew Nusca: MSI Wind U160 leaked; Atom N450, $350, arriving at CES
- 27-inch iMac gets firmware update to address display issues
- Google Nexus One smartphone unboxed; demonstrated
Jason Hiner: Backupify drops paywall; backs up your data from Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail
Bits: Who Walked, Google or Yelp?
Harry Fuller: Which country is hot in 2010?
Garett Rogers: Google to open search algorithm? Not in your lifetime
Dana Blankenhorn: Some unusually winning stories from 2009
eWeek: IBM Preps for Cloud Computing War vs. Google, Microsoft in 2010