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• Twitter Goes Down: Apparently Hacked? Twitter went down for a time late Thursday night, amid reports of a possible hack.
• ATIC Completes Acquisition of Chartered Advanced Technology Investment Co. has completed its acquisition of Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor.
• Researcher Cures Poisoned BlackBerry With Kisses A security researcher in Asia has cured BlackBerry devices infected by spyware with Kisses.
• Dell Offers Cheaper Quick-boot System Based on Flash Memory Dell is cutting its reliance on Arm processors to run the quick-boot environment with a new flash module it launched on Thursday
• The 20 Dumbest Questions on Yahoo Answers From startlingly ignorant PC questions to appalling displays of sexual confusion, people have some pretty strange problems--and the depth of their cluelessness is nowhere more evident than on the pages of Yahoo Answers.
• PC World's Top Videos of 2009 Our most popular videos of the year included a look at The Sims 3 game, how to install Ubuntu Linux, and best YouTube friendly camcorders.
• LaCie Announces 2Big USB 3.0 RAID On Thursday, LaCie introduced the 2Big USB 3.0, a RAID array the uses the new USB 3.0 connectivity standard.
• Heartland Pays Amex $3.6 Million Over 2008 Data Breach Heartland will pay $3.6 million to American Express to resolve issues relating to its 2008 hack.
• ITunes Store Adds Movie Bundles This holiday season, you may find yourself with an awful lot of spare time on your hands. That is, besides the cooking, cleaning, shopping, and shoveling snow...
• Need a 24GB Memory Kit? That'll Be $1300, Please Corsair divulged details of its new 24GB RAM kit recently, including the hefty price tag.
• Palm to Boost Marketing, App Program to Grow Sales Palm posted another loss for the period ending in November but has plans for boosting its prospects.
• First Look: New IPhone Games From Electronic Arts On Thursday, EA Mobile unveiled three new games that are coming soon to an iPhone or iPod touch near you. Though no release dates have been set yet, look for...
• The Planets for IPhone I had more hope for the iPhone app The Planets. The $1 app from Eric Vollnogel does provide a lot of information about the planets in our solar...
• Shut Down "Fake Steve Jobs" Not AT&T "Operation Chokehold" is a fun fantasy that has gone too far. What if someone gets hurt?
• Cool Camera Accessories to Make Shutterbugs Smile These holiday gift ideas will banish even the grinchiest shutterbug's holiday humbugs.