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Scott Thompson, the scandal-encumbered Yahoo! CEO, has resigned. His resume claimed a degree he didn't have, and Daniel Loeb wanted his head.

While it's at it, Yahoo is also making some big changes on the board of directors. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers check their own resumes and CV docs for lies, dissemblance, and inadvertent errors.

Good news, everyone! Now you can jailbreak your iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, or iPad, with iOS 5.0.1 and reboot untethered. At last! Find out how, in The Long View...

Thanks to the sterling efforts of pod2g, you can now jailbreak your A4-based iDevice, without being encumbered by the dreaded tether. (If a jailbreak is said to be tethered, it means that the jailbreak is undone if you reboot the phone -- in other words, you must connect your phone to your PC or Mac to properly boot it. An untethered jailbreak is the gold standard, because you don't need to muck about with any of that nonsense.)

There was frightening news from Indonesia ten days ago, when a BlackBerry launch event turned into first a riot, and then a dangerous stampede. The incident hospitalized three and caused 90 others to lose consciousness. Now the local RIM chief is a criminal suspect. All the details are in The Long View...

When the local Indonesian Research In Motion (RIM) subsidiary wanted to generate buzz around its new BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone, the company decided to offer it at half-price to the first 1,000 people to show up at its Pacific Place Mall store in the capital, Jakarta.

What? Facebook charges? Yes, apparently, Facebook will be charging for access from tomorrow. Are they serious? Yes, it must be true: I read it on my Facebook feed. Please. Let's dissect this unbelievable craziness, in The Long View...

Hey, look what I found in my Facebook feed. Here we go again...

Facebook's shiny new, radical, "ground-breaking" Messages functionality is seriously, badly broken. Say it ain't so, Richi! Sadly, it is, as you'll discover in today's episode of The Long View...

Last month, I talked about Facebook's radical software development methods, highlighting the good and bad points from an enterprise development perspective. Earlier, I also covered Facebook's new messaging functionality (a/k/a Project Titan), and how implementing similar functionality for business email would be disastrous.

Employers: it's not legal for you to restrict what employees say about you on Facebook, or other Internet venues. So says the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), after settling a lawsuit with American Medical Response of Connecticut Inc. Let's examine the implications, in The Long View ...

The U.S. government -- in the guise of the NLRB -- on Monday settled with a Connecticut-based ambulance company, which had fired an employee for publicly criticizing her boss on Facebook. The NLRB's position is that the employee's speech was protected under federal labor laws. On the other hand, the employer had set out policies that restricted employees.

Google Message Continuity is the latest Google service to tempt Microsoft Exchange shops into looking at Google Apps. Basically, it helps protect Exchange shops from downtime. Why would Google do that? Surely it wants people to experience Exchange pain? Let's look into it, in The Long View...

A couple of hours ago, Google's Rajen Sheth blogged thuswise:

Verizon Wireless wants to make sure you can't have an iPhone on Sprint or T-Mobile. It's willing to pay Apple for an exclusive deal (ignoring AT&T, of course). All this is according to someone called Shaw Wu, a financial analyst at Kaufman Bros. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder what it all means.

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Windows 8 should be with us in a couple of years. One of Microsoft's subsidiaries leaked the expected release date over the weekend. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers work backwards to calculate the beta download schedule.

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There's no doubt that botnets are a major threat to the safety and stability of the internet -- not to mention the cleanliness of your inbox. After years of failure to act, could we finally be seeing ISPs waking up to their responsibilities? Let's take The Long View...

Botnets are a major source of spam, denial-of-service attacks, and other net nasties. For several years, I and others have advocated a more aggressive approach to fighting botnets.

If you thought Nokia was in deep trouble, I reckon you'd be right. Trouble with leadership, software, and phones. Let's look at the challenges ahead, in The Long View...

Lacking Leadership
The current CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, has "outta here" tattooed on his forehead. He's being replaced by Stephen Elop later this month. While it's good that Nokia's appointed an outsider for a change, Elop faces some serious culture shock. Leading a Finnish company is a very different kettle of fish from his previous experiences at Microsoft, Juniper, and Adobe.

So the sun has set on day #1 that Droid 2s were in users' hot, sweaty hands. What do early customers think of the updated Android 2.2 slider? Motorola and Verizon are eager to hear what you think. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers unbox and chatter.

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