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• Latest BlackBerry Outage Caps a Year of Network Woes RIM, as well as with big names like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com, have been among the companies scrambling to restore services in 2009.
• Cyber Czar Choice: Smartphones, Social Networks Are Worries In choosing Howard Schmidt as cyber czar President Obama has gotten someone who has held a similar job in a previous administration and has varied experience.
• Last-Minute Gifts for IT Guys Want to show a little appreciation for the geeks in your life? Here are eight easy gift ideas that are sure to please any nerd you know.
• Facebook's Other Top Trend of 2009: Divorce Facebook is cited in one out of every five divorce petitions, according to some new research published this week. So what's going on?
• The Truth About Intel's New Netbook Chip Intel's Atom N450 won't create the netbooks that business customers really want to buy. Plus holiday netbook buying advice.
• Half-Open Limit Fix Speeds Up Torrents in XP Increase your torrent and Web browsing speeds with small, effective, and free utility Half-Open Limit Fix.
• Yelp Doesn't Need Google, But Google Could Use Yelp Google could integrate Yelp results into its maps searches, or build those results right into Android -- an easy way for Google to improve its own business directory.
• New Intel Atom Chips Spell More Trouble for Pricier PCs The smaller, lighter chips should boost multimedia, leaving even fewer reasons to pass up a netbook.
• New Intel Atom Processors: Smaller and More Efficient New Intel Atom processors and Pinetrail platform enable smaller, cooler, and more energy-efficient netbooks.
• Intel Launches Next-Generation Atom Netbook Processor Intel ships its next-generation Atom N450 netbook processor, which is smaller and consumes less power than its predecessors.
• Journey of a Tweet Here's how an innocent Twitter note to friends can become an Internet sensation.
• Bugs and Fixes: Zero-Day Patch for Internet Explorer 6 or 7 A critical bug in IE; plus patches for Office, Java, Shockwave, and Mac OS X.
• Why Don't Tech Media Mavens Understand Satire? The amount of bloviating on Dan Lyons’ satirical movement to bring AT&T’s network to its knees has been astounding.
• Twitter Hacked by Iran? No Way, Say Bloggers The overnight wires hummed with tales of Twitter being hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army." But all is not as it seems.
• Twitter's Love-Hate Relationship With Iran Did Iran's ''Cyber Army" really hack Twitter, after the microblogging site's service to Iranian dissidents?
• Facebook Privacy Complaint Ignites War of Words A high-profile electronic privacy group filed a federal complaint against Facebook on Thursday -- and now, Facebook is lashing back.
• Mobile Internet to Dominate Within 5 Years -- Study Morgan Stanley report states we're "now in the early innings" of mobile Internet development, which is growing faster than previous tech cycles, including the evolution of the desktop PC.
• Integrated IT Overhaul Keeps Growing Company on the Move How a unified security and communications upgrade brought one fragmented company together.
• Admit It: You're a Secret IE Abuser Many of you claim to have sworn off Internet Explorer, yet statistics tell a different story.
• Microsoft Settlement with EU Unlikely to Shift Browser Battle Microsoft and the EU have reached an agreement to end antitrust litigation in exchange for providing users a choice of browsers.
• 10 Predictions for 2010: Kaminsky and Weatherford Curious about what's going to happen to our critical IT infrastructure in 2010? Here, IT security luminaries Mark Weatherford, CISO for California State, and Dan...
• Seagate Momentus Thin Paves the Way For Thinner Notebooks Seagate Momentus Thin drives are the thinnest 2.5-inch drives yet at only 7mm and may signal a new era of affordable ultrathin notebooks.
• Use Greasemonkey Scripts In IE, Chrome, and Safari The Greasemonkey add-on lets you customize Websites and browse the way you want to--if you're on Firefox. Here's how to get under the hood with Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari.
• Why Tablets Will Kill Netbooks 7 reasons tablets rock, while netbooks are nearing the end of their day in the sun.
• How to Build the Perfect Smartbook Google could pioneer a new approach to computing with Android by combining these 10 technologies into a netbook.