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  Yang to step down
  as Yahoo's CEO

  update Yang will step back to his chief Yahoo role as soon as a successor is found for the CEO role, Yahoo announces.
  • Microsoft may be ready to return
  • Yahoo's ultimate search--a new CEO
  • Wanted: CEO with superstar skills
  • Yang's travails: A Yahoo timeline
  • Yang memo to staff

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  Adobe: Full-fledged Flash for phones

  Powerful new mobile phones will get full-on Flash Player 10, not just the Lite version. But Flash on the iPhone is still an idea left out in the cold.
  • Full coverage: Adobe Max
  • Video: Maria Shriver touts new online learning tool
  •  Photos: Adobe moves Flash 10 to smartphones

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• Google 'Voice Search' hands-on verdict: Awesome

  Google's updated Mobile App for iPhone is finally here, and it works as advertised.

  (Posted in Webware by Rafe Needleman)

• Spansion, Kodak file patent suits against Samsung

  Spansion seeks the exclusion from the U.S. market of more than 100 million MP3 players and other consumer electronics devices containing Samsung's allegedly infringing flash memory components.

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

• MLB.com drops Silverlight for Adobe Flash

  Adobe's Flash technology will help deliver streaming video of Major League Baseball games. MLB.com exec said Flash gave service more flexibility.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Mourning, unease after Silicon Valley slayings

  The man suspected of killing three employees at a start-up Friday was terminated, not laid off. But given the economic climate, the incident still has folks worried.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Michelle Meyers)

• District court halts keylogger spyware sales

  U.S. District Court has temporarily halted the sale of RemoteSpy keylogger software, which the Federal Trade Commission says harms consumers and violates the FTC Act.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• Apple's holiday: Cold comfort?

  Early estimates of Apple's performance amid a tanking economy suggest that no one has a magic bullet for recession, but some will fare better than others.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Transmeta finds a buyer

  The struggling chipmaker agrees to be sold to video chipmaker Novafora for $255.6 million in cash.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Ina Fried)

• Apple issues fix for MacBook trackpad woes

  Firmware update now available for those who purchased Apple's redesigned MacBook or MacBook Pro and have been having problems with the glass trackpad on those systems.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Office Web Apps won't work offline

  In an interview, Microsoft senior VP Chris Capossela tells CNET News that users will need a desktop version of Office to edit documents without an Internet connection.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Survey: Are SharePoint sites the weakest link?

  Managers worldwide say they are concerned about sensitive data appearing on a site being deployed without following best practices in security.

  (Posted in Security by Robert Vamosi)

• Microsoft aims to be a good host

  To target Lotus Notes and protect its turf against Google, Redmond officially launches Microsoft Online, the hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Boing Boing launches game blog Offworld

  The new site, which is written by the former news editor of Gamasutra, joins a crowded field of game blogs, but it benefits from the Boing Boing brand name.

  (Posted in Gaming and Culture by Daniel Terdiman)

• Thrillist's recession special: Free stuff!

  The scenester newsletter company has put together a monthly compendium of ways to score invitations to events with free food and booze. First city served Thrillist Invites: New York.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)
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