News to know: Father's day PC; FBI vs botnets; eBay vs. Google; Leopard vs. Vista sequel
Notable headlines:
George Ou: Build the biggest bang per dollar PCs: June 2007 Edition. Microsoft signs technology pact with Linspire.
Ryan Naraine: 'Operation Bot Roast' nets million-strong botnet operation. Exploit Wednesday follows Patch Tuesday.
Gallery: Stardock ObjectDock: The Right Tool for the Job?
Mary Jo Foley: Leopard vs. Vista: Take two. Microsoft's next developer platform frontier: Unified communications. Microsoft study: European schools prefer Microsoft to open-source.
Larry Dignan: Report: Xeon has regained most share lost to Opteron.
Techmeme: AT&T to target pirated content.
Microsoft shares source code with AIDS researchers.
Reuters: eBay pulls U.S. ads from Google AdWords network. Google Checkout Blog: Update to our event on 6/14. TechCrunch: eBay stares down Google and wins.
Kodak boosts digital camera sensitivity.
New video-game league seeks mass appeal. Photos (right): Gamers compete at Playboy Mansion.
Dan Kusnetzky: Vyatta - changing the world of routers, firewalls and VPNs.
Baseline: The 40 fastest growing software companies. CIOs, Auditors To Get New Software Controls Guide on July 9.
Intuit takes QuickBooks Enterprise to Linux.
Widgets matter: Now monetize them. Comscore widget report.
Computerworld: EBay pulls ads from Google's U.S. ad network.
Jason O'Grady: 'Sleep Camp' nixed, you still have to reboot.
Joe McKendrick: More heated debate on Service Component Architecture -- is it vendor lock-in?
Russell Shaw: Enterprises with multi-vendor IP telephony need single-tool management.
News.com: Happy hour with the iPhone.
Matthew Miller: GotVoice brings gives your phone an iPhone feel.
Dana Blankenhorn: WiFi is the open source technology of the decade.
Jason Calacanis: Mahalo Greenhouse Launches.
Photos (right): Shuttle 'Atlantis' flips for damage control.
Web 2.0: New risks, new rewards. Ryan Stewart: Gnash, the open source Flash project, releases support for YouTube. Computerworld: Review: Can Microsoft's Expression Studio challenge Adobe? Marc Orchant: A cautionary Vista story - steep curves ahead.