News to know: Ubuntu; Microsoft's Albany; Google; Safari flap
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look: Hardy Heron Beta. Gallery: Installation.
Mary Jo Foley: ‘Albany’: New Microsoft ‘home office’ in the works?
Michael Krigsman: Is IT becoming extinct?
Garett Rogers: New Google Mobile feature lets you search without typing
Robin Harris: Hooray! Blu-ray BD+ hacked!
Jason O'Grady: Rumor Mill: What you'll be buying from Apple next
George Ou: Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control
NYT: A New Tool From Google Alarms Sites
Tom Foremski:Will the burden of the Long Tail kill Internet commerce?
NYT: The Royalty Scam Techmeme
Paula Rooney: Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for distributing Safari 3.1 for Windows on its update site
- Tom Krazit: Think before you install that update
- Jason O'Grady: Mozilla CEO accuses Apple of malware distribution practices
- Dennis Howlett: Question to Mozilla CEO: what do you fear?
- Kingsley-Hughes: Rotten Apple
- Foley: Apple makes good on its promise to push Safari for Windows through iTunes
Roland Piquepaille:Printing organs on demand?
Ed Bott: Sony drops its $49 "no crapware" fee
Rik Fairlie: Make your own Wi-Fi access point, for free
Joe McKendrick: War declared against JBOWS architecture... but is it something we can live with?
Larry Dignan: iPhone in the enterprise: Bridging the employee, IT department gap
Heather Clancy: Into Africa: Inveneo's low-power computing alternative Harry Fuller: Are we running out of everything? MSM's stunning lack of concern
Steve Rubel: Three Internet Careers That Soon Won't Exist
Michael Krigsman: QA failure in Yahoo unlimited email
I Cringely: War of the Worlds — There is a technology war coming.
Phil Fersht: Spring outsourcing talk
U.S. trade body to probe Sony on Blu-ray
Richard Koman: Network Solutions censors anti-Koran film site
How open will Verizon make its new spectrum? Change-Congress, an open source strategy for political reform
Dana Blankenhorn: Red Hat takes the open source security challenge
66% of US employees write down passwords in unsafe places
Matthew Miller: The REDFLY gives me back the utility of a Handheld PC, but with the latest OS
O'Grady: Dr. Bott T3 USB 2.0 hub Gallery (right).
NYT: Hopes for Wireless Cities Fade as Internet Providers Pull Out
Paul Murphy: Discussing talkback formats