Opinion: Ford plans Wi-Fi on board

Opinion: Ford plans Wi-Fi on board
Ford, one of the failing auto industry’s big dogs, announced it will nerd-out and bring Wi-Fi to a line of its vehicles.

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• Opinion: Ford plans Wi-Fi on board
• InfoWorld news quiz
• What’s under the Gearhead Christmas tree
• Ten IT Talking Points Your CFO Will Love

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InfoWorld news quiz
What’s on your holiday gift list? If you said a Google Phone or a 27-inch iMac, you may have to wait ’til next year (or longer). Still, there’s plenty of holiday cheer to go around. This week Steve Jobs received yet more awards, Comcast launched a Web video service, McDonald’s supersized its Wi-Fi offerings, and YouTube and Twitter revealed what the world was watching and tweeting about in 2009. Have you been a good tech newshound this year? Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now let’s get jolly.

What’s under the Gearhead Christmas tree
Mark Gibbs pulls a few presents out from under the Gearhead Christmas tree and finds a better solution to his recent quest of randomizing a sequence of numbers, a really cool Bluetooth stereo headset and a service for building SUSE Linux configurations. Ho, ho, ho, indeed.

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Ten IT Talking Points Your CFO Will Love
Do you know how to talk to your CFO in terms that he or she understands? Here are ten talking points for the year ahead.

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