News to know: Tim Berners-Lee; mobile Ubuntu; Kitchen Windows; Latest MacBook Pro review
Notable headlines:
Canonical refines mobile Ubuntu Linux.
David Berlind: Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged (right): Semantic Web better than APIs for data access. Out of the box experience with Lenovo's Thinkpads is simply unacceptable. Apple, AT&T stores prepare for iPhone frenzy. Dan Farber: iPhonomics and the post-PC era. Russell Shaw: Several iPhone presale offers up on eBay.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft cooks Windows-based kitchen client. Larry Dignan: Pondering a world of way too many Windows.
Long Zheng: Windows Vista SP1 confirmed again by loud-mouth Microsoft Downloads.
George Ou: ASUS and Intel slaughters OLPC with Eee-ase. Christopher Dawson: OLPC spawns another non-OLPC.
Garett Rogers: Google launches the Calendar.
Review: Apple MacBook Pro 2007 Edition (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 17-Inch Screen).
Matthew Miller: How can you enter text on the HTC Touch?
Ryan Naraine: Windows vs Linux security report card redux.
Baseline: Does GE Have the Best I.T.?
Sun expands blade line, includes Intel. Robin Harris: Intel's latest memory problem. Dan Farber: Google makes plea for H-1B visas, U.S. asks for Google software.
Net firms lose in House spyware vote.
Larry Dignan: CIOs see increase in IT hiring. Dan Farber's CIO Sessions: Colonel John Hayes of the Air Force Reserve. Etelos CRM on demand distribution everywhere.
Computerworld: Surviving a home data disaster: How Shirley got her files back.
Jeremy Allison: Why DRM won't ever work.
Images: Olympic logo creates a stir (right).
Jason O'Grady: Inside the MacBook Pro: Intel's Santa Rosa chip. Inside the new MBP: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT. Sun's ZFS coming to Mac OS X. Russell Shaw: Apple TV chips cost breakdown here.
Geeksugar: New Mercury Free MacBook Pro Unboxed!
Life without Google Day 1: The Ask experiment. Gallery. Google search not enough to locate taxpayer, court says.
Dana Gardner: Mainsoft gives latest .NET developers a means to deploy widely without knowing Java.
Techmeme: CompUSA customer complaint escalates across Web.
Webware: Hands-on with Netscape Navigator 9.
TechRepublic's Jason Hiner: New study says that offshoring is freeing up more money for new IT investments.
Review: HP Pavilion dv6500t.
Dan Kusnetzky: Evergrid -- High Performance Computing in the Enterprise.
Net sales tax a big hang-up for alleged Amazon-Netflix deal.
DailyTech: Western Digital Bumps Passport Drives to 250 GB.
Google: Microsoft IIS 'twice as often' serving malware. IBM to catch Watchfire security technology. 'High risk' flaws found in Yahoo Messenger.
Steve O'Hear: Open source movie project moves forward.