News to know: Internet worm's 20th birthday; Windows 7; Apple patents; Ubuntu

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Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors

• Add Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Microsoft roadmap
• John Carroll: Windows 7 - user interface is king

Adam O'Donnell: Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!

• Ryan Naraine: Opera sings the security blues
• Adobe nukes 'critical' Pagemaker flaws
• Cyberattacks target UK national infrastructure
• Dancho Danchev:Phishers apply quality assurance, start validing credit card numbers

  

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft drops more new codenames, including another 'Mojave'

• Dana Gardner: Microsoft's cloud push: Too little too late on purpose?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is out

• Images: Ubuntu's Intrepid Ibex on the loose (right)
• TechRepublic: How often do you switch OSes or distributions?

WSJ: Talks Over Google-Yahoo Search Deal Fail to Progress

CNET News: Apple hires top IBM chip designer and blade server guru

Sam Diaz: Sun posts $1.67 billion loss on write-off

• GE's SaaS launch validates Aravo, a salesforce.com for supply chain

Reuters: US appeals court rejects business method patents

Patent ruling: Good or bad for tech innovation?

Joshua Greenbaum: More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software

• Michael Krigsman: Six tips when buying enterprise software
• Paul Murphy: From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

Google: What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud

Larry Dignan: Motorola: Handset unit spin-off delayed; No Android 'til next Christmas; Layoffs on tap

• Andrew Nusca: Motorola gPhone by Xmas '09: A big mistake?
• Sam Diaz: A tough decision: Grab an iPhone or wait for the Storm?
• Silicon Republic: BlackBerry Storm price plans revealed

Caroline McCarthy: The new AOL.com gets all social and stuff

 Christopher Dawson: Classroom 2.0 and the joys of Ning

Gallery: 10 Apple patents to watch

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Ghost Story: Fear of Microsoft Fades

• Kingsley-Hughes: Does anyone expect Apple's ads to be truthful?

Dana Blankenhorn: Has Chrome fixed its Adobe problem?

• Garett Rogers: Google supports OpenID, kind of
• Matthew Miller: How do I know what applications are updated in the Android Market?

I like Windows Mobile and am not ashamed to admit it

• Mossberg laments lack of bargain Mac in his Fall Guide
• USB 2.0 is faster on MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
• David Morgenstern: Who's buying the iPhone and why

Dan Kusnetzky:Scary virtualization dream for Halloween

Joe Brockmeier: WePC: Intel and Asus forming community, or focus group 2.0?

Joe McKendrick: Best SOA governance is hard to see

Silicon Alley Insider: Revenue Crisis: Here Come The Pro Accounts

Jennifer Leggio: Plurk dissolves into social networking ghost town

Heather Clancy: Eight more states covered under vendor-led tech recycling initiative

• Harry Fuller: Electric cars on the streets

Roland Piquepaille:Duplicating your keys without your knowledge

Netflix distribution grab continues: Hooks up with Tivo

Richard Koman: Innocents being sued for game piracy

• Viacom perks up at Google Books settlement
• Estonian registrar gets a reprieve

Christopher Dawson: So where are the Classmates here in the States?

• OSUM portal from Sun
• A better way to do legacy software

Blankenhorn: Health Care IT a promise too far?

• There is one global market in an open source world