News to know: SAP's mistake; Mozilla; Yahoo; CRM

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Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases to select testers updated IE 8 build

• CES: Zune phone, no. Pink, maybe

Ryan Naraine: Window Snyder leaves Mozilla

• Dancho Danchev: Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail systematically abused by spammers
• IE7 XML parsing zero day exploited in the wild
• CheckFree customers intercepted by hackers
• Richard Koman: Nigerians include FBI in latest version of infamous spam

Dennis Howlett: SAP: "We made a mistake"

TechRepublic: The industry's 10 best IT certifications

• The future of corporate IT? Abstraction

Larry Dignan: Yahoo settles shareholder suit; Alters severance plans

• Yang: Layoffs 'very hard,' 'very necessary'. Techmeme
• Yahoo shareholder pushes for Microsoft search deal; Assumptions too optimistic
• Google exec joins LinkedIn

Review: Dell XPS One 24 (PRODUCT) RED desktop computer (Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200, 750GB HDD, 4GB)

Mary Jo Foley: Webcast: What's on Microsoft's plate for 2009?

• Microsoft hires digital-identity/open-source maven Dick Hardt
• Windows 7-Windows Mobile integration: What's coming when?

Google: 2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

Jason O'Grady: Firmware updates released for all new MacBooks

• Is Apple recession proof?

Garett Rogers: Gmail SMS feature is back!

Forrester: Mark Twain, US Politics, and the state of enterprise BI

Zack Whittaker: Dissertation cheats: the dark, corrupt slice of the Internet

Deb Perelman: The steep price of good technology

Michael Krigsman: 6 tips to avoid security policy failure

• Joe McKendrick: Business leaders worry: who will mind the IT store?
• Gartner: too few companies link SOA to master data management
• Dana Gardner: More than cost savings alone, cloud computing will transform business, say HP and Capgemini
• Linthicum podcast: Cloud computing plus recession equals IT transformation
• Paul Greenberg: CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Live and Let Die - Part 1

Sam Diaz: Obama's Broadband plan: offering and waiting for details

CNET News: TV has license to kill movies at iTunes, Netflix

Webware: Google doubles Street View coverage in U.S.

MacRumors: Latest Firefox 3.1 Beta Adds Multi-Touch Support

Oliver Marks: Warfare 2.0, 1940's Style

• 'Leading with Kindness'

TechCrunch: Google To Take Chrome Out Of Beta

Hey Sergey: Where's my Mac version of Chrome?

• Jason O'Grady: On the proliferation of crapware on the App Store
• Apple cripples GPS in Egyptian iPhones

• Psystar's revised counterclaim feels weaker than original
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Latest twist in Apple vs. Psystar

Gallery: Is this the next generation of mini laptops?

Roland Piquepaille: A telescope in a cubic kilometer of ice

Andrew Nusca: Reports: Android invasion coming this summer

• Competing with Asus, MSI to demo touchscreen Wind at CES
• HP to offer 3-year 'Enviro' laptop battery
• How bad is 2008 vs. S&P's 183-year history? Here's a graph
• $99 iPhone? Don't hold your breath (and why 'Apple = premium' isn't the answer)

Laptop Magazine: MSI to Demo Touchscreen Wind, Release Wind U110, Wind U115 and U300 in U.S.

Matthew Miller: Instantly upload your photos to Evernote with your Eye-Fi card

Christopher Dawson: One Call Now works like a champ

• Learning to say "No!"

Harry Fuller: Green Tech Bubble Deflation--Matches Gen

• Energy and the Earth's Future
• Heather Clancy: EPEAT greenlights 1,000th green-tech product
• Verdiem appoints new CEO; plans broader sales reach
• Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Gifts for the energy-conscious (right)

Dana Blankenhorn: File your open source code with Linux Defenders

• Joe Brockmeier: Insubordinate or honest? What should Sun do about Monty?

BoomTown: AOL Gets More Social With Renovation of Bebo (But There's Much More to Come)

Technology Review: Are Social Networks Sinking?

PCWorld: Verizon Aims for LTE Deployment in 2009

Richard Koman: Dems blast FCC chief Martin for 'bad manners'

• Blankenhorn: Nortel makes the case against Kevin Martin
• Placing bets on proposed cyberczar position
• The political argument against health IT

HP to offer SUSE desktop Linux to business, education customers

Virtualization to put consumer tech in the workplace

Nortel explores bankruptcy

The future? Man falls in love with robot

25% of employed email users say they check email even when they have taken a sick day