Cybercrooks are looking at Adobe Reader and Flash as prime opportunities heading into 2010.  Social networks like Facebook will also be targets as their popularity continues to explode.

Huffington Post has just such an article.  So I’m scrolling through the choices, and then I come to Basil Gloo®.  No, that’s not a product to stick your broken china back together. (But wait!  Order your Basil Gloo® now, and we’ll double your offer!)  Basil Gloo® is someone’s name. Is that one of the best names ever?  So here’s his website, divided into “personal” and “business.”  This one is great, too.

It would appear Mark Wilson over at Gizmodo is having some serious issues with his iMac(s.)  Read on.

Remember earlier in the year when Dear Leader had to leave the planet for awhile? Well, Tim Cook remembers.  The Apple COO stepped into the temporary leadership vacancy and piloted the ship admirably. So much so, that he got a smidge over $12 million in Apple stock for his troubles. Photo shown below courtesy of  TUAW, with El Jobso preparing to mind meld with Cook, to give him infinite wisdom, patience, clarity, and clothing tips.  (A black turtleneck, Tim.  Not a polo.  OK?)

Key quote right there taken from another drunken, whacked-out, maniacal rave-up by Mosspuppet.  He says that’s what Dear Leader flatly stated when they were all engaged in a naming meeting.  You know, “we have this thing, what do we call it?” Mosspuppet says one of the names brought up was iMoss, and that didn’t fly. Imagine that.  It sounds like the name iSlate was/is the winner, and we can blame/thank The Killer for it.  MP says Dear Leader made this bet with Katie, too- and this sure sounds like El Jobso to me.

“If this product isn’t more popular than the iPhone, even despite the godawful name Schiller came up with, I’ll give you back your soul. Okay? That’s how confident I am that it’ll succeed. Now let’s go market the (expletive withheld) future!”

So we know that there’s a big Nexus One hoo-ha at The Plex on January 5th.  And now, TmoNews has kindly confirmed that, well, there’s going to be something sold via Google only, beginning at 9am on that day.  What happened to that invitation-only kerfuffle? And how much will it cost, so I can be bummed that I can’t afford it.  (Details below are for T-Mobile Internal Use Only, btw.)

All the big media companies are in New York. All of these guys use iPhones. So they all know, and have known for a long time, how bad AT&T’s service is in New York. Yet they’ve said nothing.

Even now, with the blogs all over the story, and Michael Wolff griping, and with AT&T admitting that its coverage in New York and San Francisco isn’t up to par — even now, with all this going on, no one in the mainstream media will hold AT&T’s feet to the fire.

Know why? Katie points me to this article. The big T was the second-biggest ad spender last year, just slightly behind Verizon. For the first nine months of this year they’ve dropped a bit but they’re still the fourth-biggest advertiser.

But wait a minute, you say. Would TV networks and leading newspapers really look the other way on a big story just because they feared losing advertising revenue? Would AT&T really use its advertising budget as a weapon to shape the way it gets covered? Surely that kind of thing doesn’t happen.

Yeah. Surely not. Must be something else. All that breaking news about the underpants bomber or something.

Nokia says that almost all of Apple’s products infringe on Nokia patents, and they’ve filed a new complaint with the US International Trade Commission.  Here’s a  report.

Now whatever could Big G have in mind?

So it’s not just AT&T. O2 in Britain says its network got overwhelmed by smartphones and people couldn’t make phone calls. But at least O2 had the decency to apologize, and to add more capacity.