News to know: Phishing; Gates gone; Google; Hyper-V

Notable headlines:

Dancho Danchev: HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacks

TechRepublic: Most report their IT career has been better than they expected

Mary Jo Foley: J Allard gets a new job

• Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so often
• Would Microsoft ever split itself up?
• Fiji government official tells Microsoft: 'Fiji' is not for sale

Bill Gates bids farewell to Microsoft 

• A teary goodbye
• Gallery: Bill Gates says good bye

• Gates: Yahoo deal unlikely
• TechRepublic: Sanity check: Five things we have learned from Bill Gates

John Carroll:Thoughts on Bill Gates

Tom Foremski:Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?

• Zack Whittaker:The lighter side of Bill Gates [right]

NYT: Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air

WSJ: Tech Titans to Head Off Patent Suits

Sue Decker's super powers

Jason D. O'Grady:Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates

Paul Murphy: Achieving magical results in IT

Ryan Naraine: Internet Explorer 'feature' causing drive-by malware attacks

• Critical security alert issued for Tor

• Nate McFeters: An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilities

TechCrunch: Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook's Board Of DirectorsDan Kusnetzky: Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing

Garett Rogers: "Family Guy" creator and Google team up

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Taking the 'H' Out of HR

Offshoring: India still No. 1

News.com: Rhapsody's new MP3 store offers full song previews

'.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix

Michael Krigsman:

• Bad leadership causes failed IT
• Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership
• Fixing failure: Shatter the technical glass ceiling

Dana Blankenhorn:

• The heart of open source is trust
• The French way to open source
• Healthcare IT: Halamka becomes an open source believer
• Zap away your worst migraine

Jennifer Leggio:Cool Tools Friday - Pandora and The Hype Machine

Deb Perelman: Essential IT skills: Manage your time and carry your weight

• "IT is boring," scoff students

Christopher Dawson: What programming language should we teach?

• In-class computers vs. labs

• Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters away
• Biometric IDs for African penguins?

 Garett Rogers: Google Media Server brings Google to your TV

Gallery: Top tech for festival season [below]

Harry Fuller:Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die

Dana Gardner:

• Coveo G2B for CRM provides search-based single customer view from disparate content sources
• Progress Software continues SOA buying spree with Mindreef acquisiton
• Eclipse Foundation delivers Ganymede train with 23 cars, but where are the cloud on-ramps?

Rik Fairlie: Linksys adds set-up software and support for Mac OS

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put some pizzaz in your presentations with free Keynote Objects

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week [below]

California to drivers: Drop the cell phone, dude

Facebook VP of technical operations: Jonathan Heiliger [Video]