News to know: FCC oks white spaces; Firefox; Dell; Adobe patch

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Obama wins: CBS News: Election Webcast

Techmeme: FCC approves plan to approve white spaces for broadband use

Joe Brockmeier: Vote Firefox! Mozilla passes 20% market share

• Paula Rooney: Private browsing added to Firefox 3.1 beta code

Dancho Danchev: Google and T-Mobile push patch for Android security flaw

• Ryan Naraine: MS08-067 worms squirming in the wild
• Heads up: Patch your Adobe Reader now

Sam Diaz: Dell at Dreamforce: Brave the economy or prepare for the rebound?

• Dell plots more cost cuts Statesman.com: Dell asks employees to take unpaid time off to help cut costs

Phil Wainewright: Salesforce mashes up the cloud so you don't have toTechRepublic: Track down your uptime in Windows Vista

Mary Jo Foley: Show of hands: Who wants multi-touch on a

• Microsoft ranks Windows 7 features most likely to affect app-compatibility

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Voting With Dollars: Online Ad Spending Only Faces Thin "Scalpel"

• Larry Dignan: Handicapping the neutered Google-Yahoo ad deal

Matthew Miller: Review: BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 from T-Mobile

• Image Gallery: RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 (right)

Apple's top iPod gun to depart; Papermaster in; Jobs succession gets murkier. Techmeme

NYT: Why You Will Not See Opera on Your iPhone

Ars Technica: Fired? Don't delete your company's Exchange database

Dennis Howlett: SaaS battlegrounds: Salesforce v Zoho

• Trade show horrors
• VentureBeat: Salesforce.com on Microsoft: “They hate everybody”
• Joshua Greenbaum: Social to CRM to Enterprise: Not So Fast....

Google: Top searches on Election Day (part 1)

Sean Portnoy: New wireless chip promises to kick Wi-Fi's butt in data transmission

UMPCPortal: Ultra-Mobile Computing Buyers Guide 2008. Part 1

Dion Hinchcliffe: Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolves

• Enterprise 2.0: Progress is mixed, but experimentation is cheap

David Morgenstern: Kindle clamor keeps confusing

Heather Clancy: HP boosts power efficiency features for latest ProLiant blade server

RCR Wireless News: Nokia to cut 600 jobs in marketing, sales and R&D

Andrew Nusca: Forget PSP, DS: Apple enters handheld gaming

Matthew Miller: Dash to lay off 2/3 workforce and end hardware sales

Ryan Stewart: Architecting your Rich Internet Applications

• Dana Gardner: Genuitec, Eclipse aim for developer kit to smooth rendering of RIAs on mobile devices
• Dana Blankenhorn: Palamida offers just the facts on new opportunity

Richard Koman: Election-day technology watches the polls

Zack Whittaker: Microsoft Research and their secret projects

Brian Sommer: Reengineering HR Solutions - #3

Brockmeier: Staying on topic: Using community channels for political conversations?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Don't upgrade to Windows 7 ... clean install instead!

Harry Fuller: Needed: a truly green source of light (besides the sun). Any bright ideas?

Schneier slams US border biometrics

Paul Miller: Semantic Web Gang talks to Twine CEO and Chief Architect

Roland Piquepaille: Robotic sensors on Mount St. Helens

Microsoft to enable virtualized streaming of 64-bit apps by 2010

TechCrunch: Glam Media Blames Economy, Slows Down Payments To Publishers