News to know: HP home server review; Mandriva on Classmate PC; IE refresh
Notable headlines:
Robin Harris: Macs cost less than PCs - if you erase the disks.
Ryan Naraine: Hackers seize Alicia Keys's MySpace page, launching malware attacks.
Ed Bott: HP’s new home server is small, smart, and impressively simple. 
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to launch test build of Internet Explorer refresh in December. Microsoft-Novell: What a long, strange year. Microsoft delivers test build of Windows Live toolkit, more Live APIs.
Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability auction site founder arrested in Italy. Two Windows bulletins coming on Patch Tuesday.
Gphone vs. iPhone: The security debate begins. Multiplying Mac Trojan not epidemic yet.
Joshua Greenbaum: Peeking Under the Tent At Oracle OpenWorld: Fusion On Schedule and Web 2.0 Meets CRM. Dennis Howlett: Subtle change at Oracle: old meets new.
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile Shadow sets the standard for Windows Mobile usability
Christopher Dawson: And the Nigerian gove
Report: Sprint and Clearwire scrap WiMax pact. Paula Rooney: Red Hat, Novell race to offer better Windows guest support, Windows Server 2008 virtualization support.
Michael Krigsman: New ERP research: quantifying failure and growth.
Bumps on the road to Microsoft's Surface. Qualcomm shares drop on disappointing outlook. Reuters: Priceline third quarter profit more than doubles. AP: Nvidia profit doubles.
Dan Farber: IBM applies autonomic computing to energy management.
Ars Technica: Blu-ray's DRM crown jewel cracked.
Larry Dignan: T-Mobile hops on the OLPC bandwagon.
George Ou: Intel launches HPC/Cluster development tools. AMD touts 'stream computing' chip.
David Berlind: Latest DRM trainwreck: Major League Baseball.
Jason O'Grady: Apple prepping 10.5.1 update. MSN Messenger for Mac - I'm not dead yet!
Russell Shaw: Vonage’s 3Q numbers are in: Four reasons why the future looks dim. Skype releases 2.0 for Linux- with video calling and some bugfixes.
Computerworld: Exploit code out for Oracle Database 10g vulnerability. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The iPod/iTunes link IS monopolistic.
Michael Krigsman: London Stock Exchange (LSE) system failure stops trading. Murdoch: MySpace worries ‘misplaced’; Calls Facebook a phonebook.
David Berlind: Laszlo demo: The write once/run anywhere (Flash,DHTML,Java,Silverlight) RIA dev tool? Ryan Stewart: MIX08 open for registration. Buzzword now available without signup. Dana Blankenhorn: Internet health finally getting healthy?