News to know: Amazon; Windows 7 beta; Ozzie; Facebook

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Ed Bott: Five things every Windows beta tester should know

• Zack Whittaker: Students and the Windows 7 release candidate

Larry Dignan: Kindlenomics: Keep publishers and authors happy (cave once in a while)

• Amazon: Statement from Amazon.com Regarding Kindle 2's Experimental Text-to-Speech Feature
• Lessig Blog: Caving into bullies (aka, here we go again) 
• CNET News: Amazon misread book sector on speech feature 
• Matthew Miller: MobileTechRoundup show #163, Kindle 2, Android, and awesome freeware

• Adam O'Donnell: Design specs on the president's helicopter found on Iranian systems; leaked via P2P

The Sun: Fisherman found my lost phone in the belly of a 25lb cod ...and it still works after a week in a fish 

Phil Fersht: Is the call center finally coming onshore?

Jason Perlow: Will somebody make a decent low-cost, Android-based Media Player please?

Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

Mary Jo Foley: Red Dog: Ray Ozzie casts a long shadow

• New release of Microsoft's App-V for Windows 7 available
• Long Zheng: Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video) 

Garett Rogers: Hack Google's Native Client and get $8,192

Ryan Naraine: URL rewriting can help thwart Web app attacks

• PHP plugs security holes

Michael Krigsman: Ryanair website bug: blogger called 'idiot and liar'

Andrew Nusca: Microsoft: Vision to 'fundamentally re-imagine productivity'

• So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know
• AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovation
• Obsessed TV showcases the personalities of entrepreneurs

CNET News: Yahoo's Microsoft tab totaled $79 million 

Images: Microsoft's workplace of the future

Joe Brockmeier: The little Linux desktop that could: Xfce 4.6 released

• Creative Commons 0: Now with zero restrictions

FTC: ID theft cases surge; 20-somethings biggest percentage of complaints

The warning sound of TomTom

• Blankenhorn: Bang the TomTom slowly
• Paula Rooney: Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernel

Sean Portnoy: Gefen cuts the cord with its ultrawideband wireless HDMI extender

Michael Krigsman: IT failures roundup: Banks around the world!

Richard Koman: Stop suing tech investors over copyright!

Brittany's story: a tale of heroism amid RIAA abuse

TechCrunch: What An Antitrust Case Against Google Might Look Like  

NYT: Yahoo Teams With Newspapers to Sell Ads

Gawker: CEO's $500,000 Salary Burns Startup Into Fire Sale

Phil Wainewright: Appirio, shafting the global SIs

• Automated PaaS migration now a reality

Brian Sommer: More on the disintegration of BearingPoint

• Spam and obscene profits
• Psst- Your software vendor is really not that into you!

Joe McKendrick: Another view: maybe IT doesn't want to be aligned to the business

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 - The missing bits

Dana Blankenhorn: Does Microsoft still need Novell?

• Novell chief: 'Our Linux performance did not meet our expectations'
• What can government do for open source

Jason Perlow: Microsoft: Bring back the H/PC Pro

Obama's budget blueprint bolsters cybersecurity

Ed Burnette: Market Moves: You pick the next step

Janice Chen: 15 online photo apps compared: image editing on the cheap

• Webware: 15 online photo editors compared

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Cablevision's New Online News Model May Be Optimum. Or Not

• Sam Diaz: A sad day for newspapers; Is it too late for them to change?
• VOD chief: Comcast will survive in face of TV.com, Hulu
• NYT: Broadcast TV Faces Struggle to Stay Viable 

Jason O'Grady: 48 hours with a Dell Mini 9 netbook (the keyboard and battery)

• Bag Friday: The perfect netbook sleeve
• Episode 106: PowerPage Podcast

Tom Foremski: Can you advise about social media if you don't use it?

Sony reorganizes as president steps down

Are Demo, similar conferences still relevant?

Zack Whittaker: Controversial counter-terror policy in UK education networks

Dan Kusnetzky: The elephant in the room - virtualization and license management

Blankenhorn: Who will control the coming health IT standards?

• Obama health reform strategy is money first
• Stop the lies about comparative effectiveness

James Farrar: Green is still Gold (But Beware of the Politics of Gesture)

• Paul Murphy: Comparison in green
• Harry Fuller: California becomes official dry state
• San Francisco turns from foggy gray to bright green
• America's lag-time in alternative energy
• Heather Clancy: Are the terms green and gadget mutually exclusive?

Oliver Marks: Sacked for mentioning job was boring on Facebook...

Analyst: OLPC won't draw global PC makers