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Will social networking and TV fly?

Larry Dignan: Comcast has acquired Plaxo in a move that aims to make the cable giant's interactive portfolio more social and potentially bring a little Web 2.0 to your set-top box.

• Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move

• Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
• Flash Player 10 codename "Astro" goes beta
• Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge
• Commercialising the Semantic Web
• Semantics add value to new travel site as UpTake emerges from private beta

• Googling Google
• Dev Connection
• The Semantic Web
• The Social Web
• The Universal Desktop
• Web 2.0 Explorer

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Cuban's return?

Larry Dignan: As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban.

• Larry Dignan: Icahn reportedly preps his board slate for Yahoo
• More Microsoft-Yahoo on ZDNet

• It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
• Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack
• Microsoft delivers another update to Office Live Workspace
• Exclusive: First look at the FastMac U-Charge
• Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• The BlackBerry Beat
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Googling Google

Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: It's Linux's biggest victory as DeviceVM's Splashtop Linux desktop will ship across the entire P5Q range of motherboards, with more to follow by the end of the year.

• OCZ debuts DIY gaming notebooks
• OS security scorecard for Q1 08 - Do patch numbers mean anything to anyone?
• More on the Vista DVD playback issue
• Linux's biggest victory so far - Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards
• Can you see yourself running Windows Vista in 2014?

• Storage Bits
• Hardware 2.0
• The Core Truth
• Laptops & Desktops

Does Microsoft need a bigger touch screen?

Mary Jo Foley: Bill Gates shows off a wall-sized touch-screen monitor at a CEO forum--but wouldn't Microsoft be better off if it concentrated on what it knows best.

• Gallery: Gates shows off 'Touch Wall'
• Ozzie: Innovation coming from consumer, not corporate, market
• Microsoft: The desktop PC isn't dead

• It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
• Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack
• Microsoft delivers another update to Office Live Workspace
• Exclusive: First look at the FastMac U-Charge
• Patent reform dead for 2008

• All About Microsoft
• The Apple Core
• Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
• Linux and Open Source
• Managing L'unix
• The Universal Desktop

Security researcher to release Cisco rootkit

Nate McFeters: According to a report, a researcher with Core Security Technologies has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco routers, which he will release on May 22 at the EuSecWest conference in London.

• DIY phishing kits introducing new features
• Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released
• With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw
• Aviv Raff drops an 0-day for IE 7.0 and 8.0b on XP
• Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest

• Zero Day
• Threat Chaos
• Between the Lines

Mobius Seattle 2008: New devices

Matthew Miller: Trying out new phones and UMPCs from Sony Ericsson, MWg, and HTC was the highlight of Mobius Seattle 2008.

• Aliph releases new Jawbone that is 50% smaller than the original
• Mobius Seattle 2008; First impressions of the HTC Advantage X7510
• Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices
• Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta and earns a spot as my right soft key shortcut
• Mobile software Monday: HanDBase 4.0 and Nokia Podcasting

• The BlackBerry Beat
• IP Telephony
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• The Social Web
• SOHO Networking
• Team Think

Dell desktop falls below $300

John Morris: Dell wants you to use your tax rebate on a fairly powerful PC that includes a 2.0GHz Pentium E2180 dual-core processor, 1GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, Intel GMA 3100 graphics, and Windows XP.

• VIA reveals world's lowest-power x86 processor on world's smallest board
• Aliph releases new Jawbone that is 50% smaller than the original
• Mobius Seattle 2008; First impressions of the HTC Advantage X7510
• Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices
• Windows XP Service Pack 3 adds support for WPA2

• Digital Cameras
• Laptops & Desktops
• The Mobile Gadgeteer
• SOHO Networking
• The ToyBox

Virtualization and security

Dan Kusnetzky: Some suppliers are taking a very broad view of both security and virtualized environments. Others still see virtualization as being equal only to the use of virtual machine software.

• Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
• Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
• BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
• Off Topic: Integrating mobile devices can be a challenge
• Virtualization and security

• Between the Lines
• BriefingsDirect
• Enterprise Anti-matter
• Enterprise Web 2.0
• Irregular Enterprise
• IT Project Failures
• Service Oriented
• Software as Services

10 attributes of bad CIOs (self-test)

Michael Krigsman: Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business.

• Introduction to BIT
• Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
• Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
• Small differences can make a BIG difference
• 10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test)

• On Sustainability
• IT Project Failures
• GreenTech Pastures
• IT Services & Outsourcing
• Managing L'unix

UK warned of China, India software threat

UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60 billion behind China this year, fuelling high-level calls for Britain to abandon the low-cost end of market.

• UK warned of China, India software threat
• Free software great and small
• Common misconceptions about database security
• SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'
• HP develops new type of memory circuit

• Between The Lines
• All About Microsoft
• The Core Truth
• IT Facts
• Emerging Technologies
• Tom Foremski: IMHO