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News to know: Microsoft and open source; Google; Motorola, PMA 2008

Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand wordsDana Blankenhorn: Should we fight the proprietary open source power?Larry Dignan: Google's quarter falls short of expectations Tom Foremski: GOOG's troubled social network deals threaten Facebook valuation.
Written by Larry Dignan, Contributor

Notable headlines:

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words Dana Blankenhorn: Should we fight the proprietary open source power?

Larry Dignan: Google's quarter falls short of expectations Tom Foremski: GOOG's troubled social network deals threaten Facebook valuation. Techmeme

Janice Chen: On the show floor at PMA 2008: Sony shows off high-end DSLR prototype On the show floor at PMA 2008: A quick look at the tiny Kodak Z1012 IS megazoom

Boomtown: Chatty Zuckerberg reveals Facebook's finances 

David Morgenstern:Could the MacBook Air's trackpad

support pen input? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple doesn't do loss leaders. John Carroll: Why Apple TV is important to Apple.

Jason O'Grady: Has iPhone met its match with nuvifone? (updated 10x)

Photos: Garvin's Nuviphone picks a fight with iPhone (right)

BTL podcast: Demo 08, Yahoo woes, Amazon's moves and more...

Robin Harris: Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100

Zap to do three-wheeled car in 2009

Computerworld: The LAN turns 30; Will it reach 40?

Larry Dignan: Oracle on the psychology of patching. Richard Koman: Fortify offers source code analysis to states. Joe McKendrick: Which will kill SOA fastest: no money or no skills?

Ed Burnette: TiVo judgment is fascinating, yet frightening

Harry Fuller: Green tech business--how hot is it? Gates spending lots of green on green revolution Heather Clancy: From carbonation containers to inkjet cartridges: HP's new approach

Dan Farber: Gartner's top 10 predictions on

IT futures

The state of IT risk management

Gallery: Sprout Builder (right)

Russell Shaw: AT&T BlackBerry outages reported Midwest, western Pennsylvania outages on AT&T EDGE network. BlackBerry Patent app proposes improvements for meeting invite emails from BlackBerry calendar. BlackBerry Patent app describes wireless changing of theme screens

Microsoft Patent App would add "trust system" to some cut-and-paste operations

Dennis Howlett: SAP's alternative Twitter project. Why

Twitter's failing. Twitter blog: We had a rough night. Dave Greenfield: Does Web 2.0 Need IT?

Photos: Cracking open the Iomega Zip drive

Garett Rogers: Google wins 700mhz FCC auction

Chris Matyszczyk: Ohmigod! Social networkers just can't take it any more!

Steve O'Hear: OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"

Torvalds: Linux ready to go green

Roland Piquepaille: Fly the green skies at Mach 5

Electronic Arts lowers outlook, shares fall

Dana Blankenhorn: Virtual doctors still a long way off

Middle East Internet outage: Do you have backups for your offshore ops? How resilient are the Internet pipes?

TechCrunch: Yahoo to acquire Maven

Amazon.com: Will you recognize it in 10 years? Amazon.com buys Audible; March into digital content distribution continues

Sprint sees substantial impairment charge

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