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• Sony's Hirai Hopes for Quick Start to Online Content Service Sony is hoping to launch its planned online content service early next year, the executive heading up the project said Friday.
• AT&T's Anti-Verizon Ad Is a Stinker Unable to silence Verizon, AT&T fights back with an ad featuring Luke Wilson -- and ends up looking like a tongue-tied kid being teased at recess.
• Benioff Trumpets Force.com Platform's Success Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff hyped the success of his company's cloud development platform on Thursday.
• Sony Outlines Aggressive Growth Goals Sony wants a 20 percent share of the LCD TV market in 2013 and expects a 5 percent profit margin the same year, it said Thursday.
• Spear Phishers Hunting PR Firms and Lawyers, Says FBI FBI adds that fraudsters continue to hijack accounts on social networking sites and spread malicious software by using various techniques.
• Salesforce Adds Social Networking Layer The new, private Chatter service from Salesforce helps employees and partners connect with each other and stay current on collaborative projects.
• Holiday Travel Made Cheap and Easy — Click and Go! Whether you're off to grandma's house or planning a dream trip, use these tips, tricks, sites and strategies to save money, time and hassle.
• Yahoo Go To Go Bye-Bye The mobile app portal service that gave users access to Yahoo content across multiple devices will shut down early next year.
• Palm Pixi, Pre Get Dirt-Cheap at Amazon Online retailer now offers Palm's flagship smartphone and its little sibling at bargain basement prices. Of course, buyers must sign a two-year service contract with Sprint to get either deal.
• New Linux Isn't That Different from Old Linux The funniest thing about comparing, for example, 1999's Corel Linux 1.0 with today's Ubuntu 9.10? How much hasn't changed.
• Sidekick Gets a Second Chance T-Mobile has resumed selling the beleaguered device, albeit with a small price drop.
• TypePad Offers Free 'Micro' Blogging Service Six Apart's TypePad Micro, the first version of the service that’s free, is aimed at extremely casual bloggers.
• Google Leads in Search, Bing Gains and Yahoo Slumps Both Google and Bing gain in the search market, at the expense of Yahoo's share, study shows.
• 'Unfriend' Is 2009's Top Word The New Oxford American Dictionary has announced its Word Of The Year for 2009: unfriend. Bloggers wonder if that's the best the wordmeisters could do.
• 25 Top Tech Gifts: Your Guide to Cool Yule Tools Holiday gift suggestions for the techie on your wish list.
• Boxee to Unveil Set-Top Box on Dec. 7 The device, compatible with the Boxee service, will have its public debut (in mock-up form) at a Dec. 7 event in New York.
• Guess Who's Hawking Internet Explorer Now? Redmond makes a smart move, hiring country music fixture Dolly Parton to pitch IE8 and its Web Slices feature.
• GameStop to Sell Digital Downloads Boxed retail games aren’t dead yet, but could this be the beginning of the end?
• Hello, Sezmi -- Goodbye, Cable The Sezmi TV service aims to provide a more personalized, Net-savvy, inexpensive alternative to cable and satellite.
• Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Has Lymphoma Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Barnes & Noble Nook Reader on Its Way -- Slowly If you're in the market for a Nook e-reader, don't hold your breath -- the wait will be a bit longer than originally expected.
• Android Hot on Windows Mobile's Heels, Per Analyst The upstart Android OS, in its first year, is gaining on the decade-old Windows Mobile (CE) platform.
• Would Nokia and Palm Merger Spell Doom for WebOS? It's not a sure thing, but if Nokia were to acquire Palm could the vendor juggle three mobile operating systems?
• Berners-Lee's Foundation Wants the Web to Improve Life Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation will open its doors officially on Sunday.
• Behind the Scenes: The Great 10/27 Twitter Spike What caused "The Great Twitter Spike of Oct. 27, 2009"? Pingdom survey shows heaviest tweeting occurred then … but why?