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  Live blog with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang

  The chief of the troubled Internet pioneer is scheduled to talk with Web 2.0 Summit co-host John Battelle at 4:50 p.m.
  • Yahoo to go it alone?
  • Web 2.0 Summit 2008
  • How the 'Yahoogle' talks with feds fell apart
  • Larry Brilliant on investing in future

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  Windows 7: Moving beyond Vista

  special coverage At its WinHEC event this week, Microsoft aims to offer an in-depth look at what's to come with its operating system.
  • Windows 7 takes center 'stage'
  • Rebuilding trust with Windows 7
  • Video: Windows 7 pre-beta
  • Photos: Windows 7 on the go

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From CBS News:

• What Obama's victory means for clean tech

  Renewable energy, efficiency, and biofuels are poised to get a boost. But a down economy means climate change rules are likely to wait.
  • 2008 campaign coverage
  • News sites see record traffic
  • Obama presidency: Good, bad news for tech

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• How the 'Yahoogle' talks with feds fell apart

  Sources say trustbusters took an increasingly hard line with Yahoo and Google in the past two to three weeks, causing their proposed ad deal to become unpalatable.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Dawn Kawamoto)

• Report: MySpace Music close to naming CEO

  Courtney Holt, the executive who oversees digital music for MTV, is close to finalizing a deal that would make him CEO of the new music service.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Cisco feels sting of economic downturn

  CEO John Chambers says the company saw a sharp decline in sales during the quarter as customers hunker down for an economic downturn.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Marguerite Reardon)

• As the Mac turns: MacBook Air delayed, Mac Mini coming soon?

  Customers who ordered one of the new MacBook Airs from Apple with the regular hard drive will have to wait a little longer, but Mac Mini mavens should be patient.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Speedy USB 3.0 spec to be unveiled

  The next-generation connection standard for connecting peripherals to PCs is expected to offer 10 times the speed of USB 2.0.

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

• Obama-themed malware on the rise

  Within hours of settling the U.S. presidential election, spam using Barack Obama's name and image is used to entice people to download various Trojans.

  (Posted in Security by Robert Vamosi)

• Intel cuts VMware stake in half

  Cisco and EMC will pick up 500,000 shares each as Intel reduces its investment in the virtualization company.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Matthew Broersma)

• Election a win for multitouch inventor

  Jeff Han, who was a crowd favorite with his graphical interface system at TED two years ago, is the man behind the interactive election maps being used by CNN, Fox, and now ABC.

  (Posted in Cutting Edge by Michelle Meyers)

• Apple added 8,000 retail employees in fiscal 2008

  Company filing shows Apple hired around 11,000 people during its past fiscal year, and the vast majority went to work for its retail operation.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Campaign PCs of Obama, McCain cyberattacked

  Newsweek reports that the FBI and Secret Service told the presidential candidates that their files were accessed by criminal hackers over the summer.

  (Posted in Defense in Depth by Robert Vamosi)

• The Yahoo countdown begins

  Yahoo's CEO had his big chance but his gamble failed. Now the company's future is going to get decided by outside forces--whether Jerry Yang likes it or not.

  (Posted in Coop's Corner by Charles Cooper)

• SanDisk cranks up solid-state drive speed

  ExtremeFFS flash file management system "has the potential," SanDisk says, to accelerate random write speeds by up to 100 times over existing systems.

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