News to know: IE exploit; Windows Live; Crowdsourcing; Apple
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Ed Bott: Windows Live drops the ball on support
- Mary Jo Foley: Will the Microsoft Live Search turmoil ever end?
Gizmodo: The Definitive Coast-to-Coast 3G Data Test
Dancho Danchev: Thousands of legitimate sites SQL injected to serve IE exploit
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft's incredible IE patch turnaround
- Mary Jo Foley: Critical IE 7 fix is now available
- Adam O'Donnell: Out-of-cycle IE7 patch is available
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft releases patch for IE vulnerab
- Zack Whittaker: Has Internet Explorer ever been safe?
Microsoft Big Brains: Anders Hejlsberg
Jason Perlow: How to ruin a perfectly good Sunday with Windows Vista
Images: Free online games for the whole family
Jennifer Leggio: Crowdsourcing the masses - 2009 social media predictions
Paula Rooney: Microsoft offers view into ODF 1.1, Open XML implementations for Office 2007 SP2
The Open Road: Novell cancels its 2009 BrainShare conference
Michael Krigsman: Univ. of Wisconsin CIO discusses IT failure [podcast]
LA Times: Major leadership shakeup at LinkedIn: Nye leaves, Hoffman back at the helm
Sean Portnoy: Novatel Wireless launches MiFi mobile router--no tethering required
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Free? The 'Wired' Economy Is Still 80% Atoms, Not 100% Bits
Ed Burnette: The Mac is dead (again), pass the Cider
- Larry Dignan: Apple's Macworld saga and Jobs absence: Leadership signals and succession plans
- Sam Diaz: Apple fallout continues: Paris expo cancelled
- Engadget: Walmart iPhone on sale the 28th for a lot more than $99
- David Morgenstern: Macworld Expo minus Apple: Traditions meet market reality
- Jason O'Grady: Can Macworld Expo survive without Apple?
- Kingsley-Hughes: Apple pulls out of Macworld Expo ... so what?
- Christopher Dawson: And now for more on the convergence front
- AppleInsider: Apple ordered to end exclusive iPhone deal with France's Orange
Brian Sommer: Would you sign off on this audit? What's a going concern in this business climate?
VentureBeat: VC survey: Market will look up ... in 2010
TechRepublic: The five phases of a successful network penetration
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: NVIDIA Quadro CX - Accelerator for Adobe CS4
Dignan: Yahoo will anonymize user data after 90 days; Ups privacy ante
- Richard Koman: Yahoo to anonymize data in three months, putting Microsoft's 18-month policy to shame
- Images: Yahoo turns on Open Strategy (right)
Motorola: We're freezing pensions, 401k matches
- Western Digital squeezed by weak demand; Lays off 2,500
- BusinessWeek: The Recession: My Facebook, My Therapist
Matthew Miller: Review: HTC S740 (aka Rose) Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard device (right)
- Nokia Messaging client moves off Beta Labs with a ton of new features
- BlackBerry Application Suite allows Windows Mobile phone to run RIM's OS
- Images of four Motorola/Verizon phones for 2009
- Clearwire, WiMax face uphill battle vs. tight credit
- Sprint unveils dual 3G/4G modem
Heather Clancy: Check your package: When it comes to product boxes, the excess philosophy is falling out of vogue
Roland Piquepaille: Flying robots for better weather forecasts
Dana Blankenhorn: That Vudu voodoo
Richard Koman: Annals of the law: Service by Facebook
Images: Philips GoGear: Luxe, Spark, and Raga (right)
Dawson: Has the age of 1:1 finally arrived?
Harry Fuller: Grays Harbor planning a wave of ocean-sited power plants
Zack Whittaker: (Vista Ultimate)RED for $65 to help save Africa
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: EA: Wii graphx sux