Paul Carton / ChangeWave HotWire Blog:
A Historic Collapse in U.S. Corporate IT Spending  —  ChangeWave’s latest corporate IT purchasing survey shows an accelerating collapse in U.S. business spending that has reached historic proportions - with record pullbacks occurring both in the current 4th Quarter and going forward.

The Official Google Blog:
SearchWiki: make search your own  —  Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results?  Maybe you’re an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top.  Or perhaps it’s not there […]

Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv  —  In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv.  As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was apparently egged …

Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising.  —  updated: At a time when companies are issuing warnings about missing earnings targets and scaling back expectations, enterprise cloud computing company salesforce.com seems to be bucking the trend.  —  After the bell, Salesforce.com reported income …

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share  —  While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker’s lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.

Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google SearchWiki brings custom search results  —  Disagree with Google’s search results?  You’ll be able to do something about it with a change the company plans to release starting Thursday.  —  Google’s SearchWiki is a feature that lets people elevate, delete, add, and annotate search results.

Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple developing always-on iPhone status indicators  —  Apple has conceptualized a means of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhone’s displays even when the handset is locked and the backlight turned off, a new company filing shows.  —  The Cupertino-based electronics maker notes …

Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft: IE 8 won’t be done until 2009  —  Microsoft plans to offer one more public test version of Internet Explorer 8 before releasing the final version of the updated browser, the company said late Wednesday.  —  The next test, essentially a “release candidate” version will come in the first […]

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Canadian regulators allow P2P throttling  —  Massive Canadian ISP Bell Canada scored a big win today, as the country’s telecoms regulator issued a long-awaited decision in which it concluded that Bell can continue to throttle P2P traffic at will.  In a turn of events that would have seemed shocking … […]

Marla Aaron / IAB:
Internet Advertising Revenues in Q3 ‘08 at Nearly $5.9 Billion  —  11% Increase from Q3 ‘07, Up Slightly from Q2 ‘08 Despite U.S. Economic Woes  —  The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached almost $5.9 billion …