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  Yahoo's search
  for a new CEO

  special coverage With Jerry Yang poised to step down, who will take the helm and what will new leadership mean for the embattled company?
  • Yang: 'Time is right' for new leader
  • Yang's travails: A Yahoo timeline
  • Microhoo revisited: Would it be a search-only deal?

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  An artist envisions
  her bionic eye

  San Francisco artist wants to replace her artificial eye with a camera as part of an "experiment in wearable technology."

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• Dell taps game box, Nvidia for supercomputing

  How do you democratize high-performance computing? There's no better example than taking a game PC and turning it into a visual supercomputer.

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

• Microsoft chopping Zune prices

  With storm clouds hanging over the U.S. economy and the holidays just weeks away, the software maker is cutting the price of all its flash-based devices.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• IBM to buy Transitive

  The company, whose technology allows code to run on a different OS or architecture than originally intended, is best known for powering Apple's Rosetta.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Safari 3.2 includes antiphishing tools

  Apple quietly adds the security feature to its latest version of Safari. It's the last of the major browser vendors to offer antiphishing protection.

  (Posted in Security by Robert Vamosi)

• LHC restart gets reset to June

  Famous CERN particle accelerator could be rebooted when warm weather returns, following repairs as expensive as $16 million stemming from a September helium leak.

  (Posted in Cutting Edge by David Meyer)

• Photos: Magazine archives bring history to life

  A few of the more than 10 million photos from Life magazine's archives that Google is making available online.

• Online retail spending slows to a crawl in October

  Consumer spending on e-commerce sites grows 1 percent in October, the slowest month since ComScore began keeping track.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Erica Ogg)

• DivX sues Yahoo over canceled ad deal

  Just two weeks after Yahoo learned it would be losing out on a revenue-making ad deal with Google, it's own reneging on an ad deal is prompting DivX to sue the search company.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• Unisys survey looks beyond cybersecurity

  Semiannual report from consulting firm attempts to "get a sense of where the public is" on security.

  (Posted in Security by Robert Vamosi)

• Noncompete clauses can keep tech in check

  IBM's lawsuit against former executive Mark Papermaster, who is trying to join Apple, underscores how companies can enforce restrictions on their employees.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• HP sees fourth-quarter sales boost

  PC maker's revenue hits $33.6 billion, with adjusted earnings of $1.03 per share. That's "another solid quarter," CEO Mark Hurd says.
  • More holiday time off at HP, Micron

  (Posted in Business Tech by Margaret Kane)

• Project Playlist-iMeem merger rumors persist

  Music industry sources say start-up Project Playlist is interested in acquiring iMeem, which denies the claim.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Privacy laws trip up Google's expansion in Europe

  Search giant is getting caught in a web of privacy laws that threaten its growth and the positive image it has cultivated.
  (From The New York Times)

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