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• Google Makes It Easier for News Sites to Opt-out Publishers can now use robots.txt to opt-out of both Google search and news. Meanwhile, Murdoch and Huffington fight over the future of online news.
• New Facebook Privacy Controls Just Weeks Away Think you've heard about them before? You have--back in July--but it's now about to happen, FB founder Mark Zuckerberg says. Regional networks? They're toast.
• Cable Industry Floats Broadband Adoption Program A cable industry trade group proposes a broadband adoption program aimed at middle-school students.
• Google Nears Release of Chrome Web Browser Beta for Mac The Chrome Web browser has been available for over a year, but up until now it has only been available for the Windows operating system. Google is nearing the launch of a beta version for Mac OS X users.
• Retail Mania, IE Woes, EU Charges Although this is a normally slow tech news week, some real news occurred, what with the ongoing IE exploit and the larger world not sidetracked by holidays.
• Black Friday Doorbusters Are For Suckers Think lining up before dawn will get you the best tech holiday deals? Don't get taken by retail advertising gimmicks.
• Attacks Appear Imminent as IE Exploit Is Improved Metasploit has released an improved attack for an IE zero-day attack, making criminal use more likely.
• Five Tips to Shop Black Friday and Cyber Monday Securely Bargain shoppers eager to find the best holiday shopping deals are often easy prey for online scams. Here are five tips to protect yourself while shopping online this holiday season.
• Redirecting DNS Requests Can Harm the Internet, Says ICANN ICANN on Tuesday condemned the practice of redirecting requests for nonexistent domains as a threat to the smooth functioning of the Internet.
• Google's Ad Empire is Good for Small Business Google is expanding its vast marketing empire with the purchase of Teracent. Google may be bad for traditional advertising, but its good for small business.
• Microsoft Issues Security Advisory on IE Vulnerability Microsoft has issued a security advisory that provides customers with guidance and workarounds for dealing with a zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer.
• How To De-Worm Your iPhone iPhone behaving badly? Here's how to find out if you've caught a worm--and how to get rid of it.
• Mobile Groups Protest Proposed Net Neutrality Rules Mobile groups raise concerns about proposed net neutrality rules.
• New Attack Fells Internet Explorer Symantec says that an unpatched flaw affecting IE 7 and IE 6 has been made public.
• Google Chrome OS Unveiled: Speed, Simplicity, and Security Stressed Google demonstrated for the first time its Google Chrome OS, a Web-centric operating system set to be officially released late 2010.
• YouTube Direct Provides 'Citizen Journalist' Clearinghouse YouTube Direct provides a forum for budding amateur journalists and broadcast news media to connect. Surrendering news to ‘citizen journalists’ may be expedite the demise of journalism as we know it.
• Microsoft Ups Cloud Computing Ante with Azure and 'Dallas' Microsoft unveiled plans to kick off 2010 by launching the Azure cloud computing platform into production server status. Details were also shared about a cloud project for developers codenamed 'Dallas'.
• Top Word of 2009: Unfriend, But Twitterisms Abound Runners-up: Hashtag, sexting, netbook, intexticated, paywall.
• New Google SafeSearch Shows When Kids Are Protected Four colored balls tell parents their children are protected while searching on Google.
• IBM and AT&T Unveil Cloud Computing Services The Internet just got a bit more overcast with the addition of two more clouds. Both IBM and AT&T announced new services to join Microsoft, Amazon, and Google in establishing a cloud computing services.
• Google's Swiss Street View Battle Highlights Privacy Challenge Google is being sued in Switzerland over privacy concerns related to Street View. This issue illustrates the larger problem Google faces balancing information and privacy.
• Google Aims for Faster Web Downloads With SPDY Protocol Google is hoping to make the web up to twice as fast using SPDY, a new protocol it's experimenting with.
• Facebook Aims for PS3, While Twitter Taps Xbox Next Dashboard update features Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm, Microsoft says.
• Office Live Add-In Eases Working Across Multiple Computers This Web-based Office add-in provides seamless integration between Office Live Workspace and Microsoft Office.
• Telecom Experts Worry About Net Neutrality Rules Some telecom experts worry that new net neutrality rules could slow broadband investment.