News to know: Storm; AMD, Intel; Tech economy reels
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Josh Taylor: Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing
Larry Dignan: AMD unveils ‘Shanghai’; Aims to better compete with Intel
- AMD: Does the resurrection start with ‘Shanghai’?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD introduces 45nm quad-core "Shanghai" Opteron processors
- Intel's fourth quarter unravels
Ryan Naraine: Firefox security makeover: 11 vulnerabilities, 4 critical
- Why did Microsoft wait 7 years to fix SMBRelay attack flaw?
- Adam O'Donnell: Spam rates massively down on shutdown of rogue ISP
- Dancho Danchev: Google fixes critical XSS vulnerability
- $10k hacking contest announced
Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft’s kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?
- Images: Hands-on look at Windows 7 multitouch
- Microsoft starts rolling out IE 6 for Windows Mobile
- Zack Whittaker: Pre-release Windows 7 needs feature switch mode
- Andrew Nusca: First Photos: Windows Mobile 6.5
Nick Denton: A 2009 Internet Media Plan
Brian Sommer: Social network for CEOs – best practices
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBC
CNBC: Apple iPhone Gets The Business From Citrix
EIC podcast: Best Buy's fall; Obama's CTO, Microhoo; Search wars
- Larry Dignan: Best Buy cuts outlook; Sees 'most difficult climate ever seen'
- John Morris: First laptops "designed by" Best Buy look like winners
Matthew Miller: HTC announces world's first GSM/WiMAX mobile phone
- Nokia working to reduce traffic congestion
- Nokia E63 announced; mass market QWERTY device
- MySpace for BlackBerry now available
- Sam Diaz: Phonetopp bringing Web conferences to smartphones
Jason O'Grady: Micro projector connects to iPhone
CNET News: LG, Sharp, Chunghwa admit to LCD price fixing
Nusca: To heck with the Kindle: Sony Reader PRS-700 reviewed
Oliver Marks: Twitterank Creator SpeaksTechCrunch: Yahoo Almost To $10. Referee, Please Call This Fight.
Paul Murphy: Working at 99% CPU utilization
Are visits to massage parlors and bars impacting your credit?
Tom Foremski: Silicon Valley's top awards
Oliver Marks: Gullible Twitter users hand over their usernames and passwords - did you get your Twitterank yet?!
Dana Blankenhorn: Dismissing the open source bear at the door
AppleInsider: Apple may launch most aggressive Black Friday sale yet
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: OK, so who are the idiots that respond to spam email?
- Washington Post: Host of Internet Spam Groups is Cut Off
AP: NetApp 2Q profit drops 41 percent
Larry Dignan: Google earnings estimates cu
Andrew Nusca: Review: Why Android is for me and the G1 isn't
- CES 2009 Preview (right)
Michael Krigsman: Cadillacs recalled over software bug
Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
Dana Blankenhorn: There is good news tonight at Black Duck
Dana Gardner: IDC research shows enterprise SOA adoption deepens based on certain critical practices
- Dan Kusnetzky:Ncomputing the benefits of operating system virtualization
- Oliver Marks: Oracle Gadgets: Flexible Desktop Access to CRM Data Goldmines...
Heather Clancy: CES gets the carbon treatment
Richard Koman: IBM to manage broadband over power lines at rural coops
Jennifer Leggio: Spoke resorts to fear tactics, loses credibility
The Social: MySpace launches searchable video widget
Sam Diaz: Vudu takes HD lead; enough to stay alive?
Roland Piquepaille: A protein version of a Vermeer masterwork
Jason O'Grady: Rumor: AT&T to charge $30 per month for tethering
Qualcomm floats 'PC alternative' 3G deviceYahoo tests new front door interface
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Steve Jobs for President. Of GM?
Christopher Dawson: I think voice is going to be a big deal