Notable headlines: New York Times: A Mystery Solved: ‘Fake Steve’ Blogger Comes Clean. Damn, I am so busted, yo. Larry Dignan: Fake Steve Jobs outed by New York Times. Techmeme.
Bug hunting start-up: Pay up, or feel the pain. George Ou: Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007.
Top 10 reviews of the week (right).
Marc Orchant: Vista IE7 issue remains unsolved for many users. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Patchy antivirus coverage for 64-bit Vista.
Microsoft and open source: Frost sightings in hell.
News.com: Microsoft gives 3D look at space shuttle. Microsoft: Groundbreaking Digital Experience for Endeavour Shuttle Launch.
Dan Kusnetzky: Thinstall puts application virtualization on a diet.
Paul Murphy: iSense? Got’em? SASPO? IEED?
Engadget: Wibrain's B1 UMPC: hideous, yet strangely appealing.
New York Times: I.B.M. Near Supercomputer Contract.
Dana Blankenhorn: Has Ubuntu clinched the desktop Linux market?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Popfly to hit public beta soon. Help Microsoft come up with a cool product name.
David Berlind: Are Linus Torvalds, IBM, AMD, others at odds over pushing hardware drivers out of Linux? Review: Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive.
64-bit PCs: Drivers wanted. Harry Fuller: House: we have an energy bill. TechCrunch: Virtual World Hangouts: So Many To Choose From.
Russell Shaw: Apple Patent app reveals iPhone-compatible Multi-Touch Gesture Dictionary.
Democrats to push new Net sex-predator laws.
PaidContent.org: Online Search/Commerce Services Firm Accoona Files For $80.5 Million IPO.
Michael Krigsman: North Carolina: IT Report Card. Treasury Department: Stop the IT Madness.
Richard Stiennon: China's golden cyber shield? Not.
Xbox repair process leaves gamers in a fix.
Photos: Where airplanes go to recoup (right).
Garett Rogers: Google tests a new suggest feature on result pages.
Dan Farber: Enterprise 2.0 in a nutshell.
Samsung chip lines fully working after power outage. Semiconductor sales fall on lower prices. Mitch Ratcliffe: Social Network Dead-Ends. Roland Piquepaille: The physics of beer bubbles.