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USATODAY.com - Adobe, which celebrates its 25th anniversary on Dec. 13, is a Web powerhouse with its Adobe Reader and Flash software. CEO Shantanu Narayen spoke with USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham about Adobe's transition, and why he believes two new initiatives for 2008 - Adobe's Media Player and AIR, which connects desktop applications with the Web - have the potential to transform the $3 billion company. Link To Original Article

Redmond executive says IE is the safer bet after comparing vulnerabilities in the two browsers, but some say the study is flawed. Link To Original Article

If what The Register writes is even remotely true, the writing is on the wall for Microsoft's desktop dominance. What does it say? "Game over." The Register is reporting that Apple may be coding Leopard to run Windows applications natively (meaning, no need for Parallels, Boot Camp, etc.). It's a wild guess at this point, but the clues are there: Leopard's PE [Portable Executable - a way of encoding executable files] support was uncovered by one Stephen Edwards, who'd been working with Wine, the open source version of the Windows application programming interface (API). He found that Leopard's Dynamic Linker (Dyld) will try to load a PE file. Soon after, Leopard's hunt for DLLs referenced by the PE file appeared as further evidence that the presence of PE support may not simply be a hang over from Apple's use of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Ron Paul is not a botmaster. Security researchers have shut down a network of computers responsible for sending out nearly 200 million spam messages supporting the U.S. presidential candidate last month, and after analyzing the server's software, it's clear that there is no such thing as a Ron Paul botnet, according to Joe Stewart, a senior security researcher with SecureWorks. Link To Original Article

The search giant is asking people to fill in an online form reporting malicious sites that are not already flagged. Link To Original Article

I really like Larry Dignan's posts on ZDNet, and his post Tuesday on the natural state of software markets (duopoly) is probably accurate, though I wish it weren't so. Customers lose in many ways when industries consolidate. Having said that, it's also nice to not have to contemplate a blizzard of choices when you just want to know whether to wear brown shoes or black shoes on a given day. Regardless of whether it's good or not, Larry identifies a slew of software (and hardware) markets that have been "duopolized." From among many: Enterprise software: SAP and Oracle. Sure, HP and IBM are rapidly beefing up their software units. But once that dance of music chairs ends, a midlevel software company can take comfort (or not) in the belief that it'll be a subsidiary of Oracle someday. Maybe. Or could there be an open-source pretender to this duopoly throne? And where is Microsoft in Larry's two-seated enterprise throne? ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - The video-game rating system restricting the sale of violent games to minors has not been applied correctly in the United States, where teenagers can easily buy them in stores, a family group said Tuesday. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Yahoo Japan Corp. and eBay Inc. agreed Tuesday to team up in online auctions, planning services for next year that will make it easier for consumers to buy things over the Internet from the U.S. and Japan. Link To Original Article

AP - A federal judge on Monday threw out an antitrust lawsuit that the operator of the LimeWire online file-sharing service filed against a coalition of major record labels. Link To Original Article

AP - AT&T Inc. customers in the Southeast United States were unable to connect to the Internet through their DSL service for several hours Monday night because of an equipment problem, a company spokesman said. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Microsoft said Monday that a flaw in the way its Windows operating system looks up other computers on the Internet has resurfaced and could expose some customers to online attacks. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Klausner Technologies said on Monday the company had filed a $360 million suit against Apple and AT&T Inc over voicemail patents that Klausner claims the Apple iPhone infringes. Link To Original Article

AP - Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it expects the global market for mobile devices to grow 10 percent in 2008, to more than 1.2 billion units, and that its market share would increase. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - While AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) may have issues with security and performance, Zimbra still sees AJAX as the best way to deliver experiences on the Web and has based its open source Web 2.0 platform on 200,000 lines of JavaScript, a company executive said Monday. Link To Original Article

Plus: Social networking's influence on the ad industry. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Consumers should have more accurate information with which to compare security software suites under a*new set of software testing guidelines*to be finalized early next year. Link To Original Article

An active exploit has been seen by Symantec for a vulnerability that affects the latest versions of Apple QuickTime. Link To Original Article

BusinessWeek Online - "You have got to be kidding me," I thought. I was sitting in an MBA information session the day after my GMAT. A busy schedule had just been laid out before me. It included challenging classes, center activities, networking opportunities -- all kinds of things that I wanted in an MBA program. The workload was heavy, no question about it, but a little hard work doesn't scare me. What threw me was the rigid schedule. ... Link To Original Article

NVMHCIWG--Baby, remember my name. I've spent more than a decade reporting on the tech industry--with most of that time logged into the squirrely world of processors and memory--and come across a lot of abbreviations and acronyms. At Intel, Craig Barrett isn't known at Craig Barrett--he's CRB. Then ... Link To Original Article

Cybercriminals are shrinking host names of malicious sites to lend them an air of legitimacy, according to security researchers. Link To Original Article

I really like Larry Dignan's posts on ZDNet, and his post today on the natural state of software markets (duopoly) is probably accurate, though I wish it weren't so. Customers lose in many ways when industries consolidate. Having said that, it's also nice to not have to contemplate a blizzard of choices when you just want to know whether to wear brown shoes or black shoes on a given day. Regardless of whether it's good or not, Larry identifies a slew of software (and hardware) markets that have been "duopolized." From among many: Enterprise software: SAP and Oracle. Sure, HP and IBM are rapidly beefing up their software units. But once that dance of music chairs ends a mid-level software company can take comfort (or not) in the belief that it?ll be a subsidiary of Oracle someday. Maybe. Or could there be an open-source pretender to this duopoly throne? And where is Microsoft in Larry's two-seated enterprise throne? ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Vivendi's planned acquisition of Activision would blend each company's respective strength but won't necessarily lead to cross-pollination among game developers. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is expected on Monday to call for a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures and a five-year freeze on the rates of adjustable rate mortgages, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - Buying a video camcorder in 2007 no longer leaves consumers choosing between a tape-based model and one that records direct to DVDs. Now, there are four distinct categories of video cameras, including models that record to hard drives and internal memory. Link To Original Article

AP - A court said Monday it would delay by one day a ruling that has pitted cell phone operators T-Mobile and Vodafone against each other over the sale of an unlocked version of Apple Inc.'s popular iPhone. Link To Original Article