News to know: Nokia Symbian; XP phase-out; Apple badware

Notable headlines:

Mary Jo Foley: No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30

Dancho Danchev:

• Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wild
• Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service
• 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the most

John Carroll: Why I still prefer Internet Explorer

 Ryan Naraine:  How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?

• Adobe ships critical PDF Reader, Acrobat patch

Microhoo talks on again--or not

Jason D. O'Grady: I'm done with the MacBook Air (for now)

iSuppli: iPhone 3G costs $173 to make

David Morgenstern: Is AppleScript under siege?

Phil Wainewright:Is Bill Gates a secret cloud convert?

Dan Kusnetzky:Tresys unveils VM Fortress

Jason Perlow: ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us

AV in the cloud... wait, what?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Giving Windows Vista another chance ...

• Christopher Dawson: OK, folks...if you want Windows it's going to be Vista

Joe McKendrick: Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?

Michael Krigsman: Oracle / SAP increase prices

Nokia to buy Symbian -  Nokia Symbian deal winners and losers

Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killer First Symbian Foundation handsets due in 2010 Dana Blankenhorn: Nokia Symbian deal shows Google on right track Ryan Stewart: Mobile RIAs - getting more exciting thanks to Nokia and Symbian

Dennis Howlett: Will Oracle answer these questions?

Larry Dignan: Geek Squad: Best Buy's secret sauce?

Photos: Let there be light off the grid

Cozying up on Twitter

Reports: 'World's thinnest' LCD HDTVs to ship in July

Dana Blankenhorn: Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing up

Heather Clancy:Why Cisco's new low-carbon diet isn't just a fad (updated)

Texas Instruments strives to make power management more intuitive, deep within its processors

Matthew Miller:

• Nokia N78 North American version now available
• Evernote now available to everyone in free and premium flavors
• Dashwire Mobile 2.0 client launches with GUI changes, Facebook/Twitter status, and more
• T-Mobile @Home Talk Forever to launch nationwide on 2 July

Oliver Marks: The view from the trenches (Collaboration 2.0)

Paul Murphy: The top Sun Ray myths

Mobile phone battery dead? Try dancing

ZDNet's CIO Vision Series: E-Loan CIO: Jay Shah [right]

IT innovation amidst a housing meltdown

Dana Gardner: ITIL's influence extends beyond IT operations to enhance SOA, portfolio management and change management