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  Five reasons Sun
  won't be acquired

  Amid a tight credit market and skepticism about its product lineup, a dramatic restructuring might be the only way to make investors happy.

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  Apple's iPhone 2.2
  hits the street

  The latest software update offers several improvements to Google maps as well as wireless downloading for podcasts.
  • Ziibii: iPhone RSS with a twist
  •  The best thing about iPhone 2.2
  • Google Mobile for iPhone breaks App Store rules
  • Apple iPhone update makes device more secure

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• SEC exempts Facebook from revealing finances for now

  The Securities and Exchange Commission is exempting Facebook from having to make its finances public even though it may soon have more than 500 employees with restricted stock.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• Palm orders layoffs as Apple and RIM take toll

  The job cuts come as Palm works to get its next-generation operating system ready to compete with Apple, RIM, and the rest of the smartphone market in 2009.

  (Posted in Wireless by Tom Krazit)

• World's largest zeppelin dedicated at NASA facility

  To be called the Eureka, the 246-feet long zeppelin is the pride and joy of a company called Airship Ventures, which will offer the public rides, as well as help NASA do scientific research.

  (Posted in Gaming and Culture by Daniel Terdiman)

• Report: Huffington Post lands $15 million in VC funding

  The site plans to use the proceeds to help fund its expansion, which will include offering local news and investigative journalism.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Dawn Kawamoto)

• Intel graphics discontent justified?

  There's a long history of hard feelings about the graphics capabilities of Intel silicon. Some of the criticism is valid--but some of it surely misses the point.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Week in review: Yahoo to replace Yang

  Search giant searches for new CEO, while Microsoft takes its security strategy in a new direction. Also: Sing along with DRM.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Steven Musil)

• Europeana goes online and is then overwhelmed

  A new digital library of Europe's cultural heritage crashed just hours after it went online and will be out of operation for several weeks.
  (From The New York Times)

• Google crunches numbers on clean-energy policy

  Search giant pressures policy makers with an analysis arguing that government and business can clean the U.S. energy supply while stimulating the economy.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Woman who posed as boy testifies in MySpace case

  Young woman tells federal jury she had posed as a boy in e-mail messages to a 13-year-old girl that ended in the girl's expressing suicidal thoughts and hanging herself.
  (From The New York Times)

• Gadgets for which we are thankful, part 2

  In the second half of our Thanksgiving feature, more Crave contributors tell which gadgets they're feeling most grateful for.
  • Gadgets, part 1
  • Video: Singing Elvis, Wii lightsabers

  (Posted in Crave by Crave staff)

• The big chill for holiday parties?

  Tech companies faced with cost-cutting may not be canceling the annual festivities outright, but things are certainly being done differently this year.
  • Economy takes bite out of CES

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Don't confuse the economy with data privacy

  Note to legislators and IT professionals: Don't cut corners on IT security. If you do, we are all likely to suffer the consequences.

  (Posted in Security by Jon Oltsik)

• Online quiz tests phishing knowledge

  Do you know a legitimate e-mail from a phishing e-mail? A security vendor says many people do not.

  (Posted in Security by Robert Vamosi)
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