News to know: Killing crapware; Ubuntu; Thin clients; AMD
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft inks more Novell-like patent-infringement deals.
Larry Dignan: Can multimedia make thin clients in (finally)?
Dan Farber: Salesforce.com unbundles Apex platform from CRM apps.
George Ou: Killing the crapware problem on PCs. John Carroll: Countering Apple's ad campaign.
AMD gooses Opteron to 3 gigahertz.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First thoughts on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Gallery (right). Christopher Dawson: Ubuntu in education?
MacBook hacked in contest at security event. Ryan Naraine: MacBook Pro hijacked with Safari zero-day.
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week. Review: Systemax Pursuit 4155 (Intel Core Duo T2250, Vista Ultimate).
Dell: Deepening our roots in Second Life. Engadget: Dell Tablet PC coming this Fall?
Don't let your navigation system fool you.
Russell Shaw: New BlackBerry app suite will run on some Windows Mobile devices.
Start-up adds shortcuts to Web browsing.
WSJ: Policing Web Video With 'Fingerprints'
GigaOM: Move over MySpace, Gaia Online is here. Steve O'Hear: Facebook adds Twitter-like functionality.
David Berlind: HP responds to privacy concerns over printer driver's pop-up survey.
New York Times: From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet.
Garett Rogers: Claim Your Content: New Google webmaster tools feature coming? Bourne Ultimatum game on Google this summer.
eWeek: Red Hat's JBoss to Adopt Fedora Model.
Phil Windley: Printing circuits on your ink jet printer.
Computerworld: No settlement with Oracle, SAP chief says
Phil Wainewright: My SaaS deployment is bigger than yours.
Donna Bogatin: Google's YouTube: Not so dirty little secrets. More Digital Markets.
Andrew Keen: My top five consumer electronic items.
Ars Technica: This is your life, according to Google.
Images: A spinning skyscraper in Dubai (right).
Ticketmaster sues eBay's StubHub over sales tactics.
Google purchases Marratech conferencing software. Russell Shaw: Will Google's Marratech purchase marginalize Google Talk?
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 ready for download.
Larry Dignan: AMD's restructuring could be fab-less–or at least fab light.
WSJ: Pound by Pound, Dollar for Dollar, The Complicated Equation for Going Green.
Christopher Dawson: Teachers + MySpace = Bad Idea?
Valleywag: The six things you can't say in Silicon Valley.