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• Malaysian Company Acquires Friendster, Bets on Micropayments Social networking site Friendster accepted a buyout offer from Malaysia's MOL Global.
• Hackers Find a Home in Amazon's EC2 Cloud CA has found a variant of the Zeus botnet running a command and control server on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure.
• Microblogs Face Uphill Battle With China's Censors Microblogging services are taking off in China, but regulation by an authoritarian government is challenging their growth.
• A First Look at Fusion Garage's JooJoo Web Tablet If you're tempted by a $500 tablet device designed for Web browsing, you should certainly check out the JooJoo (formerly the Crunchpad).
• Facebook Privacy Changes Draw Mixed Reviews Privacy advocates are calling Facebook's latest privacy changes a mixed bag.
• Red Hat Open Sources Desktop Application Protocol Red Hat open sources its recently acquired virtual desktop management protocol.
• Clearwire Network Down for Hours in Handful of Cities A software update took down Clearwire's network in several cities for about five hours on Tuesday.
• Apple Makes iPhone Developer News Available via RSS News and announcements for developers about iPhone development and the App Store has expanded beyond its small pane on Apple's iPhone Dev Center.
• JSON Data Interchange Format Gets Standards Blessing JSON gains ECMA standards blessing to help better compete with XML
• LCD Maker Pleads Guilty to Price Fixing Chi Mei Optoelectronics agrees to pay a fine of $220 million to settle LCD price-fixing charges.
• Google Apps Takes Aim at SharePoint with Groups Feature Google announces Google Groups, a business-focused variant of the consumer service that’s been around since 2001.
• Facebook Simplifies Privacy Options Following through on plans announced a few months ago, Facebook is rolling out changes on Wednesday to its privacy settings intended to make them simpler to...
• Digital Gear: Android Tablets Charge Ahead As users eagerly await tablets from companies like Apple and Microsoft, Fusion Garage jumped ahead with the demonstration of JooJoo, a handheld Internet and...
• Layar Reality Browser for IPhone Layar Reality Browser promises an awful lot for an iPhone app. Layar B.V., the developer, refers to Layar as an "Augmented Reality Browser," which for Layar...
• State Dept. Worker Sentenced for Passport Snooping A State Department employee is sentenced to probation and community service for passport snooping.
• SAP Planning to Open up On-demand Development Platform SAP is planning to open up its on-demand software development platform to third parties, but not just yet.
• Packard Bell Recalls Laptop Batteries in Europe Packard Bell is recalling the batteries in four models of laptop computers sold mostly in Europe due to possible overheating problems,
• Facebook Privacy Changes Go Live; Beware of "Everyone" The #1 social network has begun rolling out long-promised changes. Beware of the "everyone" option.
• What Is Google Voice? Ever since I got my Google Voice account, I have had to repeatedly explain to friends and colleagues what Google's free phone service is and (more importantly)...
• Holiday Newsletters With Pages '09 Who doesn't love getting something special delivered to their door during the holidays? Newsletters are a great way to keep in touch, but time is running out to...
• Facebook Simplifies Privacy Options Facebook is rolling out changes to its privacy settings intended to make them simpler to understand and manage.
• Buy the Right SD Card for Your Camera If a new digital camera is on your shopping list this season, you'll also need a memory card to store photos on. While some cameras come with a small starter...
• Google's "Living Stories" Aren't Terribly Alive If "updated 17 hours ago" counts as living, Google's new topic pages for newspapers are already on life support.
• MySpace Opens Activity Stream to External Developers MySpace is opening up to developers the public activity stream of its users.
• Mozilla's Thunderbird E-mail Client Comes With Tabs Mozilla Messaging on Tuesday released version 3 of its Thunderbird e-mail client. It comes with a tabbed user interface and improved search features.