Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
Microsoft Turns to Crispin and the Rapper Common for New Clothing Line  —  New branded apparel is meant to suggest Microsoft’s 1980s salad days  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com)—Microsoft is going from marketing computer programs to making clothes, with a new line of graphic tees dubbed “Softwear by Microsoft.”

Android Developers Blog:
New Resources for Developers  —  We’re back in action after a Thanksgiving break filled with turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie.  Now it’s the holiday season (at least, here in the U.S.) and we’re filled with good will toward developers.  Today I wanted to talk about a couple things we just finished polishing […]

Chris Putnam / Facebook Blog:
Video Just Got Better  —  Since we launched video last year, more than 45 million videos have been uploaded to Facebook with approximately 100,000 new videos added each day.  Starting today, you’ll be able to upload higher quality videos to Facebook and also embed your Facebook videos on other websites.

John Markoff / New York Times:
Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe in Your PC  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it.  —  Despite the efforts of the computer security industry and a half-decade struggle by Microsoft to protect its Windows operating system, malicious software […]