Mobile relevance for Firefox; MS Patch Tuesday whopper; Microsoft buying Adobe? [WEEK IN REVIEW]

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READ FULL STORY Featured Photo Gallery   eLegs let paraplegics walk again Berkeley Bionics today unveiled eLegs, a 45-pound bionic exoskeleton that's enabling paraplegics to get out of their wheelchairs to stand and walk. VIEW THE GALLERY More photo galleries: Cell phones of the future Scenes from GDC Online 2010 ZDNet Industries   ZDNet Government If you don't pay for protection, should fire companies let your house burn down? According to reports, the firefighters stood there watching, as they let Mr. Cranick's house burn to the ground. READ FULL STORY   ZDNet Education Building your own computer is a lot like raising chickens Is it worth the trouble for a school to build their own computers to save a few bucks? Maybe. It's worth the trouble for me to raise my own chickens. And yes, there is a connection. 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READ FULL STORY	Enterprise Corner   Burnette: Google expands Market for paid Android apps, but still snubs 85% of the world   Virtualization: Egenera adds support for Fujitsu servers   Wainewright: ChromeOS, the web platform for them   SOA: Does cloud computing make enterprise architecture irrelevant?   Marks: Facebook: Social Breadcrumbs in the Dock   Greenberg: Oracle Open World 2010: It All Works Out In the...   Hinchcliffe: Social intranets: Enterprises grapple with internal change   Gardner: HP leverages converged infrastructure across IT spectrum   Five Nines: Off-roading your datacenter   GreenTech: Biofuels still a mere drop in barrel as fuel alternative   Sustainability: Can Leo Apotheker restore HP's reputation on sustainability?   Foremski: TRUSTe tries to manage the massive problem of Internet user privacy   Howlett: Rant: Thoughts of SAHP are insane   IT Failures: 'Defining the cloud' and other fun stories   Sommer: The Un-Booth: Guerilla Marketing at the HR Technology Show   India IT: Companies, processes and technology behind India's UID project, Aadhaar     Connect with ZDNet         Hardware Corner   The Toybox: Apple TV is already selling out at Apple Stores nationwide   Hardware 2.0: Why do we spend so much money on cases and screen protectors?   Smartphones: 24 hours and we saw 12 Android smartphones on six US carriers   Computers: Intel's next generation of X25-M SSD drives   Mobile: Tablets running any OS will be everywhere at CES 2011   Cameras: PhotoTrackr Plus updated for Nikon D90, D3100, D5000 and D7000   Home Theater: HDTV prices to plummet this holiday season   Storage Bits: Making MLC safe for the enterprise   Networking: You must be at least this secure to ride on the Internet   Emerging Tech: Human-powered 'flapping-wing' plane     Latest SmartPlanet   Your commute is shorter than you think   Conservation medicine program: links in human, animal and environmental health   Human waste now heats British homes   Scientists turn to enzymes to kill superbugs   Shut down illegal radio-frequency interference     Latest TechRepublic   How to use the vSphere datastore map   Quick Tip Windows 7: Customize the command prompt   Do you have time to fix your own PC?   Five tips for managing a dispersed project team   Where's the Convert Table To Text command in Word 2007 and 2010     Latest BNET   Lands' End Beats Rivals to Roll Out Ecommerce Video Chat   E-Books Finally Impact Bestseller Market   Auto Sales in China Outstrip the U.S.   Panasonic Becomes a Major Player in Electric Cars   Electronic Health Records: Will Natural Language Processing Be the Key?     Latest CBS MoneyWatch   Feel More Secure About Retirement   How to Ask Friends to Borrow Money   America's Auto Bailout: An Insider's Account   Life Insurance Not the Solution for All Needs   Kids and Money: Take the Wasteful Spending Challenge   Recommended Downloads ·         Straight Talk about Agile, ALM, and Cloud Listen to Forrester analyst Dave West and Kevin Hancock, Director of Services at CollabNet, address the most current trends, challenges, and frequently asked questions on Agile development, application lifecycle management (ALM), and the cloud. ·         Security in Public and Private Cloud Infrastructures Don't let security concerns hold you back from cloud computing. 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