Monday News Watch: Don't Mention the Economy, We Might Get Away With it . . .
News Links for Silicon Valley and beyond...
As much as the tech industry would prefer not to mention the economy there are huge problems out there . . .
Mervyn's Fights to Keep Stores Open
Businesses Pinched by Tighter Lending
Venture Financing Drops for Youngest Companies As Older Ones Suck Up More Cash
Fair Game: Borrowers and Bankers: A Great Divide
Uncomfortable Answers to Questions on the Economy
Wall Street Journal:
Qualcomm, Nokia Head to Court Over Fees
Taking Control of Digital Lives
“Wi-Fi Squatting” a Crime – By the Victim
New York Times:
In Egypt, a Thirst for Technology and Progress
News Flash From the Cover of Esquire: Paper Magazines Can Be High Tech, Too
Protest Blog Aims at Tribune Boss
Texas Approves a $4.93 Billion Wind-Power Project
Everybody’s Business: Lessons in Love, by Way of Economics
Linus Torvalds on the "four-letter word" called "innovation"
Microsoft's online gamble: Smart bet?
Waterproof tech: Gadgets that like to swim
Nikon nirvana: Which digital single-lens reflex camera?
Breaking taboos in the tech fishbowl
Highbrow social site Spire hits the scene
Mitnick shows how social engineering is done
San Francisco Chronicle:
That's Not So 'Funny' -Online hangouts proving fruitful for prosecutors, who have used damaging photos of defendants to nail them in court.
California Is The 32nd State For Spam
San Jose Mercury:
Fandango hopes its Movies.com helps sales
IBM, Oracle, SAP sued over server software patents
Yahoo, sought by Microsoft, gets more search traffic
AT&T iPhone customers may have to wait three weeks for device
No iPhones? No problem in Russia and China
Blogs:
Tech Is Boring Me — It's time for me to expand.
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