News to know: Ubuntu; Microhoo; IT scapegoats; XP; Google

Notable headlines:

Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Pondering the alternatives to Yahoo

• Microsoft should walk away from Yahoo
• WSJ: Ballmer's big choice

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04

• Gallery: A peek at Ubuntu 8.4
• Jason Perlow: Ubuntu: I'm extremely impatient
• Christopher Dawson: If my kid doesn't like Linux now...

Robin Harris: Toshiba making *another* bad storage bet

• Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late

Michael Krigsman: 8 tips to avoid being an IT scapegoat

AMD launches ‘business class’ Phenom, Athlon chips

John Morris: HP, Lenovo join Dell in extending Windows XP

Kingsley-Hughes: Can you see yourself running Windows XP in 2014?

NYT: A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search

Charles Cooper: Twitter gets another round of funding

TechRepublic: Using Second Life for decision support

• 10+ dangerous species of help desk callers

Mary Jo Foley: BizTalk Server for Windows Server 2008 not till 2009

• Microsoft to expand its Office streaming service?

Garett Rogers: Google Docs gets some new features, templates will come soon

AP: US targets China, Russia, 7 other nations on copyrights

Nate McFeters: More URI handler issues to come

TUAW: Rumors: Apple working on iTunes controller for iPhone

Vonage refinances debt; Off of deathwatch

Dana Blankenhorn: Genetic non-discrimination bill will finally become law

• Tricare scandal shows value of VA system

Opera's latest browser beta worth the download. Gallery

• Opera boosts its anti-phishing defenses

Video: Mozilla goes mobile

Matthew Miller: Is the Amazon Kindle a low cost entertainment option?

• Skype launches new beta for feature phones, works on S60 and Windows Mobile too

Phil Wainewright: How PaaS pulls software pricing down

Dana Gardner: HP's security management model brings comprehensive approach to corporate risk reduction

MSRC: Questions about Web Server Attacks

Computerworld: Researcher finds new way to hack Oracle database

Heather Clancy: Leading with LED

Roland Piquepaille: Insects using plants as phones

• Self-healing computers for NASA spacecraft
• Modeling urban road networks

David Morgenstern: Apple's PA Semi buyout: A defensive move?

• Jason O'Grady: Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple (updated)
• Salesforce dumping 4,000 PCs for Macs?
• Microsoft's elephant in the OS room: Apple
• Paul Murphy: Betting that Apple will make PPC laptops again

Harry Fuller: One constant in the Earth's climate: change

• A professor deals the political climate around climate change

Joe McKendrick: 'WOA: the SOA that works'

• Dana Gardner: Analyst Insights podcast examines WOA-SOA continuum with keen eye on cloud computing
• SOA management, SOA governance -- keep them separated

EIC podcast: Microhoo, Vista; Macs; Web 2.0 Expo

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Richard Koman: Mexican officials nabs BlackBerries

Spin patrol: Curious timing on AOL's 'we're growing like gangbusters' announcement

John Carroll: Noble goals and politics at the OLPC