News to know: Kumo; Zune; Storm; Google

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Mary Jo Foley: Would you 'Kumo' it?

Phil Wainewright: When to spend cash in a SaaS business

• Brian Sommer: Taleo's November to forget

Jason Perlow: Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook business

Ed Bott: Why the new Zune Pass should be irresistible

• Gallery: Hands-on with the Zune Pass subscription music service (right)

Matthew Miller: White T-Mobile G1 appearing, same lame keyboard lighting as the brown one?

• Nokia Reliability Labs puts the heat on Nokia devices
• Holiday Gift Guide 2008: The ultimate smartphones
• Garett Rogers: Google adds contact syncing for your Blackberry

Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu?

BoomTown: When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled

Oliver Marks: Is Command & Control Management Inefficient?

TechCrunch: Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers

Boy Genius Report: The real story behind the Verizon BlackBerry Storm OS?

• A guide to cutting IT costsWill email and text messages get shorter with the BlackBerry Storm?
• Andrew Nusca: Lines out door, around corner for BlackBerry Storm

• Gallery: Blackberry Storm user interface (right)

Jason O'Grady: Advantages of the iPhone over the Storm

• New MacBook Pro performance degrades with the battery removed
• iPhone 2.2 firmware released
• iTunes 8.0.2 out the door
• Ryan Naraine: iPhone update kills 12 security bugs
• David Morgenstern: iPhone jailbreakers: Problems with QuickPwn?

Roland Piquepaille:Watching the nanoworld in 4-D

A computer composing and playing jazz

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The old "install this codec to see free porn" trick works on Mac too!

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget hardware

• Sean Portnoy: 2008 Holiday Buying Guide: Midrange home theater setups
• Andrew Nusca: Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide

Larry Dignan: SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse

• Salesforce.com: Recession resistant or just late to the pain?

Paul Murphy: Sun reseller contactsMary Jo Foley: Still more questions than answers about Microsoft Morro

John Morris: Details of AMD's Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking out

• Kingsley-Hughes: AMD's Phenom II shows overclocking potential

San Francisco Chronicle: Tough times in Silicon Valley, but some hiring

Dan Farber: Lifestreaming in Obamaland

NYT: Now, Brevity Is the Soul of Office Interaction

Facebook: This video showcases a Hackathon project that visualizes all the data Facebook receives.

Heather Clancy: Xerox turns down the heat, saves power with green printing innovation

• Deep in the heart of Texas: Electronics recycling infrastructure expanded
• IT resellers encouraged to spread the EPEAT green gospel
• Richard Koman: A $1 billion plan for car-charging network
• Harry Fuller: H2O + C = cool idea

Jennifer Leggio: Pop-up ads on LinkedIn? How very MySpace

Larry Dignan: Verizon Wireless: Our employees breached Obama's cell phone records

• CNN: Employees fired

Paul Murphy:The brutal truth - but not, I think, about Vista.

Ryan Naraine: Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP

Garett Rogers: Gmail exploit lets attackers forward your email to them

Ed Burnette: iPhone vs. Android development: Day 5

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: MP3 players

Tom Foremski: Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis

Dana Blankenhorn: Open source and health care reform

• Automating peer review may do much more
• Metrics of open source success

Sam Diaz: Apple's ad spend almost a half-billion dollars

• Facebook scores SEC exemption
• Google Chrome to be pre-installed on PCs in 2009?
• Corporate holiday parties: Is there reason to celebrate?

Joe McKendrick: Can a dose of SOA relieve tension?

Oliver Marks: Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration

Gallery: Virgin America's Wi-Fi in the sky

Paula Rooney: Ulteo offers server based computing solution for Linux desktops, apps

• Zack Whittaker: Enterprise 2.0 solution reduces email abuse

Andrew Mager: A live, more interactive Rev3

Phil Fersht:Investing in the right vehicles for change

• Harry Fuller: Can savior-elect resurrect General Motors?
• Science, research and the politics of grantmanship

Zack Whittaker: Student Technology Day: session videos now online

• Word 2007 ruler tweak

Christopher Dawson: Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?

• Ed Tech in a recession