News to know: Dell vs. Apple; Virtualization smackdown; Cisco patch; iCal; SAP

Notable headlines:

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could an OEM like Dell ever be as cool and as stylish as Apple?

Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory

John Morris: Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU

EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and Twitter

Jason Perlow: Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2

• Dan Kusnetzky:More Citrix Synergy Announcements

Ryan Naraine: Cisco plugs holes in Voice Portal, SSH implementation

• iCal vulnerabilities put Mac OS X users at risk
• Dancho Danchev: No security software, no E-banking fraud claims for you

TechRepublic: 10 things you should do near the end of a project

• IT consulting: The importance of naive creativity

Heather Clancy:Fade to black: Software shuts down servers

Photos: OLPC's new $75 XO-2 laptop (right)

Jason O'Grady: Apple's Mighty Mouse sued over name

• Psystar offers 13 non-Apple Software Updates
• DOD gunning to nix Apple-PA Semi deal?
• Napster gunning for iTunes with DRM-free music

Michael Krigsman: SAP's Business byDesign: the perfection conundrum

Phil Wainewright: ByDesign, the younger person's ERP

Boy Genius Report: Exclusive Pics of the Palm Treo 850

Reuters: Salesforce.com profit rises, revenue up 52 percent

Harry Fuller: Holy power supply, batman, how soon does crude oil hit $150 per barrel?

Coding Horror: PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter

Richard Koman: Office to support ODF, PDF as 'first-class citizens'

News.com: Microsoft boosts support for rival formats in Office

• Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?

Larry Dignan: Can Nortel pull an AMD on Cisco?

Christopher Dawson: Another reason to ban cell phones in school?

Silicon Alley Insider: Barry Diller Explains The New IAC: “Our Workshop” (IACI)

AP: Proposal may ease cancellation fees for cell phone users

Janice Chen: Eye-Fi's new SD memory cards add geotagging and Wi-Fi to any digital camera

Dana Blankenhorn: Did Congressional Budget Office call health IT savings bunk?

• Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claims
• Does open source mandate change in copyright law?

Denise Howell: Stanford Information Law Symposium

Review: Motorola Q9c (Verizon Wireless)

Dana Gardner: ZoomInfo spins off 'bizographic' platform for controlled circulation online advertising play

Splunk goes virtual, unveils broad IT search capabilities for Citrix XenServer

Roland Piquepaille:A robotic brain-computer interface

Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft wants to "buy" your searches - but are they for sale?

• Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft looks to buy search share (again)
• News.com: Microsoft's new tack: Bribery as a business model
• Techmeme

Senators weigh China's new laws on Web censorship

• The 31 Days of the Dragon contest continues at Geek.com

TechCrunch: SmallWorlds Brings a Third Dimension to Web 2.0HP's Hurd: U.S. demand 'spotty'; Data center, app consolidation continues

Ruby on Rails expert: Rails scales; Twitter shouldn't taint Ruby