News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

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Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list

• Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack

Mary Jo Foley: Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?

• The question that won't go away: What comes after Yahoo?
• First 'Fiji' Media Center systems start rolling out
• Ed Bott: Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA
• Microsoft Student Technology Day UK

Sam Diaz: Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?

• Foley: First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?

WSJ: Dell plans to sell factories to save costs Office 2.0 coverage:

• Video: Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome

• Sam Diaz: Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?
• Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List
• Oliver Marks: Office 2.0 Conference day one
• Dion Hinchcliffe: Ten leading platforms for creating online communities

EIC Podcast: Google Chrome; Apple; Dell and Salesforce.com

Joshua Greenbaum: Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

PaidContent.org: Samsung Looking At Buying Digital Memory Company SanDisk

Jason Perlow: Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

Paul Murphy: From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

Phil Wainewright: Zuora gets PayPal president on board

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How important is boot performance?

• Sony VAIO TZ recalled due to overheating

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Wireless Access: What Price Speed

• Sean Portnoy: Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi
• Larry Dignan: Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality ruling
• Richard Koman: Comcast challenges FCC authority
• Martin jabs back at Comcast over suit

Tom Foremski: Silicon Valley's gender gap

MacRumors: Apple Rejecting Apps Based on ‘Limited Utility’

Google: Update to Google Chrome's terms of service

• Dennis Howlett: Google's incomplete EULA climbdown
• Garett Rogers: Google Chrome already beating Opera
• Zack Whittaker: IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox
• Joe McKendrick: Analyst: Google Chrome 'SOA ready'
• Richard Koman: Chrome's new EULA drops wide-ranging claims to user content

Sean Portnoy: Wireless networking finally hits the ceiling

PC World: Amazon to Sell OLPC XO Laptops From November

Ryan Stewart: Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?

Dennis Howlett: SocialCast: enterprise Twitter/FriendFeed mashup

Video: Political party playlists

Larry Dignan: Analyst: Dollar daze around the corner for Web giants

• Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)

Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry Storm goes into TA (technical acceptance) at Verizon, delayed 3-4 weeks

Matthew Miller: Qik streaming service comes to HTC Windows Mobile devices

Jason O'Grady: Is this Tuesday's 4G nano?

• Leaked in iTunes 8.0: Genius
• Apple 2.0: Can Steve Jobs save the iPod?

Dana Blankenhorn: My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook

• Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XP; Vodafone to sell it
• Linux netbook buyers are cheap and plentiful
• Dan Kusnetzky: Dell repair adventure, day 5, with updates
• John Morris: Sony announces three all-in-one desktops

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  Sony Vaio JS190J (silver)

John Carroll: The power of standard protocols

Andrew Mager: Microsoft's Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0

• Please Dress Me: A tee shirt-ch engine

Dan Kusnetzky: Red Hat acquires Qumranet

• Access Virtualization for Mac OS X - Aqua Connect ACTS 3.0

Christopher Dawson: What can we do better?

NYT: Does Windows Still Matter?

Roland Piquepaille: How plants grow under the ground

Dana Blankenhorn: Best way to sell drugs is to talk to your doctor

Heather Clancy: Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates