News to know: Oracle, RIM; Windows 7; openSUSE

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Jason Perlow: Tough Love with openSUSE 11.1.

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Ed Bott: That Windows 7 bootleg is a ticking time bomb

• Mary Jo Foley: Some testers expecting an early Windows 7 Beta 1 present
• Paul Murphy: From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The Windows 7 FUD kicks off

Bits: Dell's Mystery ‘Adamo’ Could Be Thinner Than Air

• Andrew Nusca: Thinner, lighter, cheaper: Will Dell's Adamo out-air the Macbook Air?

Janice Chen: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best digital camera accessories

Andrew Nusca: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Last-minute stocking stuffers

Tech earnings: 

• Larry Dignan: Oracle puts Salesforce.com in its sights
• Oracle's second quarter in line; Ellison takes aim at Salesforce.com
• Palm CEO: It's not too late for us; Is it a dead company walking?
• Sam Diaz: RIM reports Q3; says Q4 is off to a strong start
• Silicon Alley Insider: BlackBerry Storm Selling Well, As Expected (RIMM)
• Reuters: Accenture results top Wall St view, outlook lower

Oliver Marks: Make the US Small Business Administration Super Venture Capitalists!

Joe McKendrick: Can we really, really, trust the cloud?

Brian Sommer: Product update - Compuware's Changepoint 2009

WSJ: Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

Heather Clancy: Multi-sourced research: IT managers still bullish on green tech spending

CNET News: Universal Music seeing ‘tens of millions’ from YouTube

Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint

Christopher Dawson: Balancing utility with responsibility on student laptops

• Do we all need 2 computers?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: SecuROM DRM sucks

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Christmas screensavers (right)

Roland Piquepaille: The Army's brain lives in Seattle

Matthew Miller: T-Mobile drops $18 upgrade fee, will other carriers follow suit?

Dan Kusnetzky: What to do when a business hotel doesn't have a WiFi network?

• Wi-Fi growing rapidly in U.S., U.K.; 42% of iPhone requests use Wi-Fi
• Oriel Specialist Mathematics and Computing College - a SoftXpand user profile

Garett Rogers: Microsoft and Yahoo wait for Google to increase privacy

Harry Fuller: Can U.S. close the battery gap?

Deep packet inspection takes another hit as Phorm execs leave

Jason O'Grady: Shill Filler: How Apple killed Macworld Expo

Huawei denies 'ludicrous' espionage claims