Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Allows 3rd Party Web Browsers in App Store  —  Apple Allows 3rd Party Web Browsers into App Store  —  Over the past 24 hours, Apple has begun to approve 3rd party web browsing applications for the iPhone.  A number of new web browsing apps have suddenly appeared with original submission dates […]

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Sell Google Apps through Google’s reseller program  —  Ever wanted to be a salesperson for Google?  Well, now you may get your chance through the Google Apps Reseller program, which allows companies to sell their own versions of Google Apps, the business offering that bundles products like Gmail, Google Docs, and […]

BIZ / Twitter Blog:
It’s Business Time!  —  Twitter receives a crushing amount of partnership opportunities on a regular basis—it’s a good problem to have yet until now there has been nobody on staff dedicated solely to business development.  Things are changing.  We hired Kevin Thau as our Director of Mobile Business Development late last […]

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Is a Microsoft Search Deal With Yahoo “Ticked and Tied”?  —  Several sources close to Yahoo and Microsoft have told BoomTown that a search partnership deal between the companies is more likely to be signed quickly now that Yahoo has picked former Autodesk (ADSK) CEO Carol Bartz as its next CEO.

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mac clone maker claims it bought OS X from Apple  —  Embattled Psystar says Apple can’t tell it what to do with legit copies of the OS  —  Computerworld) The Mac clone maker being sued by Apple Inc. because it installs Mac OS X on generic Intel-based systems said it bought […]

John Cook / TechFlash:
Marchex, Microsoft criticized on mobile advertising techniques  —  Seattle online advertising company Marchex is among those criticized in a 52-page complaint [PDF] today brought by the Center for Digital Democracy and U.S. Public Interest Research Group that says mobile marketers are using “unfair and deceptive practices.”

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Confirms Bartz Pick as CEO; No. 2 Exec Decker Out  —  As reported by BoomTown and others, Yahoo has officially selected former Autodesk (ADSK) head Carol Bartz as its next CEO, effective immediately.  —  She will also join the Yahoo board.  —  In a press release this afternoo …

Yahoo!:
Carol Bartz Joins Yahoo! as Chief Executive Officer  —  Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), a leading global brand and one of the world’s most trafficked Internet destinations, announced today that Carol Bartz, a veteran technology executive who was most recently Executive Chairman of Autodesk (NASDAQ …

Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Obama’s new BlackBerry: The NSA’s secure PDA?  —  President-elect Barack Obama checks his BlackBerry while riding on his campaign bus in Pennsylvania last March.  —  (Credit: Pete Souza/ Rapport Press )  —  Bill Clinton sent only two e-mail messages as president and has yet to pick up the habit.

Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-001 - Critical  —  Vulnerabilities in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958687)  —  Version: 1.0  —  General Information  —  Executive Summary  —  This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol.