'09 IT predictions -- the economy dominates
Absent from this year's list of 10 prognostications is an entry about Microsoft finally buying at least the ad-search business of Yahoo, if not the whole company. We left that one off the list for next year because we still expect it could happen in 2008. With that in mind and in no particular order:
Obama can't have a BlackBerry. Should your CEO?
Is the cybertechnology that can compromise the future chief executive's BlackBerry also a threat to mobile devices being used every day by thousands of senior executives in corporate America?
Britney Spears: More Interesting than Barack Obama?
On Yahoo's recently-released list of the top 10 searches of 2008, Britney Spears takes the cake. In this election year, Spears managed to beat out president-elect Barack Obama, who came in at number 3.
Verizon employees fired for accessing Obama's cell record
Verizon has quietly fired the employees who couldn't resist the temptation of peeking at the President-elect Obama's cell phone records.
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