We all know Cyber Monday as the busiest online shopping day of the holiday season. As the first business day that follows Black Friday, Cyber Monday is the starting pistol for e-retailers' most crucial time of the year.

But what about the day in October when the most online transactions take place in time for Halloween? After all, 25 percent of consumers spend more on Halloween than on any other non-gift giving holiday. Shouldn't that day be called out for its contributions to a holiday in which consumers spend an estimated $5.8 billion?

Well, we think so, and we've got just the name for it: e-Hallow's Eve. And this year, e-Hallow's Eve, the busiest shopping day of the Halloween season, fell on Oct. 25. On that day...

As of posting time, a Google search of the phrase techcrunch crunchies yields as its first result a blacklisted result for the 2009 Crunchies award page (crunchies2009.techcrunch.com). The details page shows that on September 28 (yesterday) Google found malware distributed on this subdomain of TechCrunch.

This result gives you an opportunity to see how a real, blacklisted site looks on Google. If you do click on the link for crunchies2009.techcrunch.com (it's safe; don't worry) you'll go to a Google roadblock page that reads,

Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!
Suggestions:
Return to the previous page and pick another result.
Try another search to find what you're looking for.
Or you can continue to http://crunchies2009.techcrunch.com/ at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found,...

On the heels of the recent massive malware attack appearing on sites hosted by Network Solutions, today saw a similar mass malware attack on Go Daddy hosted sites. No, you're not experiencing deja vu. Go Daddy had a malware problem very like this one earlier in the year.

This latest incident once again highlights the need for automated web site malware scanning. Daily malware distribution scanning gives small businesses an early warning that they're under attack before they unwittingly distribute malware to their customers or get blacklisted by the various malware scanning...

On September 16 Microsoft will grant software developers access to the Windows Phone 7 application platform developer tools, freeing them to develop for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Windows Phone 7 is scheduled for launch in the upcoming holiday season.

That's good news for developers, who will have a direct channel to sell their applications to Windows Phone users, in a time when mobile application downloads are rising meteorically and the mobile computing ecosystem is on a massive growth spurt. To wit,

• Smartphone users downloaded roughly 2.4 billion applications from app stores in 2009 and are estimated to download more than 6 billion in 2010.
• The mobile application market is pacing for $10...