independent director as the board chair rather than the CEO.

When the US pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, approved the compensation of the top executives at seven troubled financial institutions, he insisted that they all appoint an independent director as the board chair rather than the CEO. Several major investors — the Government Pension Fund of Norway, which manages $400 billion in assets, among them — believe that this splitting of the roles of Chairman and CEO should become mandatory for all public firms. eComTechnology Credit Card Processing

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3 Million pounds of old TVs

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So far, the Electronics Manufacturers Recycling Management Company (MRM) has collected more than 3 million pounds of old-fangled televisions being discarded in the national transition from analog to digital formats.

The figure was released this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which has been running a National TV Recycling Challenge to help divert at least some analog TVs from improper/irresponsible disposal fates. MRM was the winner of the challenge, which has so far recycled close to 8.2 million pounds of materials. The materials were collected between January and August. MRM is a joint venture of electronics giants Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba.
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Store Documents Free

Microsoft’s free Office Live Workspace is a heavily customized SharePoint service that allows users to store documents of any type within the 5 GB service limit. Office Live Workspace is available via the Web, so if you’re not able to access one of your usual machines, you can still access your files.

Microsoft provides add-ins for Office 2007 and Mac OS X that seamlessly integrate Office Live Workspace into Office 2007 and, to a lesser extent, Mac OS X. Mac users can use the Document Connection component, which does not integrate directly into Office for Mac — it simply sits in the Dock. Document Connection isn’t necessarily better or worse that the Windows solution — it’s just different.
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Twitter and LinkedIn partner

A new partnership between Twitter and LinkedIn lets LinkedIn status messages sync with Twitter.

"The business-use case of Twitter is turning out to be very important, and more and more people are finding that the persona they create for themselves on the web is part of their resume in many ways," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a joint video with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, which was posted to the LinkedIn blog.

In short, LinkedIn's 'status' feature now syncs with Twitter with an optional check box, a feature that the two companies say should be rolling out over the next few days. Likewise, users can set their Twitter status as their LinkedIn status by using the hash tag #li or #in.
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More API offerings for Blackberry

Research in Motion ramped up its API offerings for BlackBerry Monday with the announcement of new advertising and payment services, general availability of content and alert push to apps, and three new location-based services.

RIM also announced OpenGL ES support for 3D gaming and graphics.

"Our worldview is that everything is moving towards smartphones and connect[ed] services. There's no debate about this," RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie said during Monday's annual BlackBerry developer conference. "The key, however is deep, rich application integration, not just application development."

BlackBerry Advertising Service will allow developers to integrate ads into their apps.

"You can simply insert advertisements into your application without negotiating," Balsillie said.

Developers will have access to ads from networks like Jumptap, Lat49, Millennial Media, Navteq, 1020 Placecast, Quattro Wireless, and Sympatico.ca. Possible applications of this functionality include the ability to initiate a call, add a calendar entry or contact entry, or directly link to an application in BlackBerry App World - all from an advertisement.

The Advertising Service and its SDK are expected to be available in the first half of 2010, as will the BlackBerry Payment Service, which will allow developers to sell digital content like monthly or annual subscriptions, premium content, or additional levels and upgrades for games.

RIM also plans to make its Push Service, which was released to Alliance Program members earlier this year, generally available in 2010.
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Students pushing paperless

Are there any students out there who aren’t connected to the Web all the time? They have iPhones, Droids, and Pres. They have netbooks, notebooks, and desktops. WiFi is ubiquitous, mobile broadband is increasingly common, and these little Digital Natives still print like there’s no tomorrow.

Sure, we can impose print quotas, we can train them to cut and past web content into a word processor before they print, and we can generally reduce their paper consumption. But why are they printing in the first place? Why aren’t our students driving us towards the paperless ideal? A pat answer would be that we simply haven’t enabled them to work without paper or that we haven’t created a culture that encourages work in a paper-free environment. However, I think the real answer is quite a bit more complicated than that.
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Patch Tuesday and Microsoft has a few

Microsoft plans to release six security bulletins next Tuesday November 10 to fix at least 15 serious vulnerabilities that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.

According to Microsoft’s advance notice for this month’s Patch Tuesday, the updates will address gaping holes in the Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office productivity suite.
Three of the six bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating. The other three will be rated “important.”

According to the Redmond, Wash. software maker, the Windows OS vulnerabilities affect Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
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NBC Universal and Comcast may have a deal

A report posted to the Wall Street Journal’s Web site said that GE and Comcast have come to an agreement on how to value NBC Universal, a key element of reaching a deal that would let Comcast acquire the television and movie arm of GE.

The Journal, citing unnamed sources, highlights details of the complex deal, which could take a year to gain regulatory approval and could take several years to transition,complexity of the deal. The Journal’s report notes that, while the talks have gained momentum, discussions could still break down for other reasons, including the role of French media and telecom company Vivendi SA, which owns 20% of NBC Universal but has reportedly expressed an interest in shedding its stake.

The current deal being hammered out calls for Comcast to contribute cash and merge its cable networks with NBC Universal to get an initial 51% stake of the expanded company, the Journal reports.
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Microsoft buys Teamprise

Microsoft has bought the Teamprise assets from SourceGear LLC for an undisclosed amount, company officials announced on November 9.

Teamprise allows developers using the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) running on operating systems including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X to build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. (Team Foundation Server is Microsoft’s team-collaboration tool for developers.)

Microsoft plans to release a Microsoft-branded and -updated version of Teamprise that will plug into Visual Studio 2010 on or around the same date that it launches Visual Studio 2010, which is March 22, 2010, officials said.
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First known worm for iPhone spreading in Australia

The first known worm for Apple's iPhone is spreading on jail-broken iPhones in Australia. The worm takes advantage of the default password for SSH used by many jail-broken phones, and places an image of 1980s pop singer Rick Astley on the device.

The first known worm for the Apple iPhone is sweeping across Australia , and it is taking advantage of default SSH passwords on jail-broken phones.

The attack vector is the same as the one exploited by a Dutch teenager last week in a brief extortion attempt. This time around, the mind behind the attack isn’t doing anything bad – unless you don’t like having English pop singer Rick Astley as your wallpaper.
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