News to know: Chrome OS; IE 9; Salesforce; Scareware
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Larry Dignan: Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to share some details on IE 9 at PDC show this week
Dancho Danchev: Thousands of web sites compromised, redirect to scareware
Larry Dignan: Salesforce delivers solid quarter; Wall Street wanted more
John Morris: New ultra-thin laptops ready to catch on?
Sam Diaz: AT&T upgrades 3G in SF Bay Area; forgets Silicon Valley is part of region
- Apple's app approval revolt: Will it matter? Maybe
- Ring Central: a virtual phone system for a 21st Century workforce
Andrew Nusca: Black Friday '09: Motorola Cliq, $79; Samsung 50" plasma HDTV, $699; Sony 15" dual core laptop, $399
- Hitachi debuts 2TB SimpleDrive; SimpleTech Pro, Duo Pro drives
- Microsoft, former employee settle over spying claims
Christopher Dawson: OpenSUSE Education announces Li-f-e 11.2
Mary Jo Foley: Three new codenames and how they fit into Microsoft's cloud vision
Matthew Miller: Microsoft may have blown opportunities, but all hope is not lost
- David Morgenstern: Microsoft offers Office 2008 promotion for the holidays
Sam Diaz: Riverbed announces plans for virtual appliance to accelerate, optimize cloud
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: HP Pavilion Elite owner resorts to lawsuit over 'inherently defective' PC
- Apple's "force fed ads" patent more likely related to content, not hardware
- GeForce GT 240 - NVIDIA's sub-$100 DirectX 10.1 graphics card
Network World: Palm gives up. Latest WebOS update for the Palm Pre lacks iTunes support
- Digital Daily: Palm Smartphone From Verizon by Early 2010
Smart Planet: FedEx launches SenseAware: Collaboration meets GPS meets sensory data
- Clean, sustainable hydrogen from algae could reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil
- Ensuring that there’s water, water everywhere
Joe McKendrick: SOA promotes a sea change for the US Coast Guard
Tom Foremski: Tibco: What's next? - moving beyond real-time IT
Brian Sommer: Inappropriate Performance Review Phrases (We'd All Like to Use)
David Morgenstern: Adding a Wizard to your Magic Mouse
Garett Rogers: Google Image Swirl: Looks neat, but useless
TechCrunch: MySpace Close To Acquiring iMeem
Zack Whittaker: The weirdest Easter egg ever seen on Facebook
Rachel King: Barnes & Noble Nook to make debut November 30?
Samsung upgrading its UbiCell CDMA base station to 3G next year
Heather Clancy: Your tech cast-offs could benefit new project in Tanzania
CNET: The most successful Web scam ever?
TechRepublic: Know your Windows Server 2008 R2 deployment options
CNet News: AdMob brings interactive video ads to iPhone
Doug Hanchard: Internet Governance Forum goes to Egypt and hits a few snags
- The Queen could better manage security of personal information than civil servants are
- Do former CEOs make better politicians than career diplomats?
Ad Age: Why News Corp. and Murdoch Won't Quit Google
Sean Portnoy: Wal-mart Black Friday deals on HDTVs, Blu-ray players begin to leak online
Dana Blankenhorn: Keep your genes to yourself after this weekend
- Five ways Android could get into trouble
- What a decade taught Larry Augustin
- The emergency room myth busted
Adobe releases Flash, AIR betas; Gauging the potential of multi-touch on the desktop
Kingsley-Hughes: Dance Microsoft Store employees, dance!
Paul Allen diagnosed with cancer
Countries engaging in Cyber Cold War
Harry Fuller: Cap and trade controversial in Australia
IBM researchers speed up medical diagnostic testing via chip