News to know: Yahoo's home page; Barnes & Noble; Microsoft's Linux Code; 3G iPod Touch

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Sam Diaz: Yahoo's new home page: Spending more time in your world

Larry Dignan: Barnes & Noble partners with Plastic Logic; Opens up; Targets Kindle

Mary Jo Foley: Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code

• Microsoft's Linux code release: Not all fear and loathing in Linux land
• Dana Blankenhorn: With Microsoft code dump Novell tries to make nice
• Microsoft: Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community

Jason D. O'Grady: 3G iPod touch in two to three months?

Dennis Howlett: Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?

• Christopher Dawson: To host or not to host
• Joe McKendrick: Avoid accidental complexity, and 96 other things every software architect should know
• NYT: Lost in the Cloud
• Jeff Nolan: Cloud Computing and the Morning After

Sam Diaz: Report: Americans dumber than a box of rocks about spam

Zack Whittaker: The quest for the ultimate desktop experience

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How safe are your CD-Rs?

• How important are mobile apps to you?

Andrew Nusca: Apple.com: Then, now, and how it should have been in '83

• David Morgenstern: The iPhone development 'emergency guide'
• Jason O'Grady: Why don't you like glossy screens?

Microsoft's store foray: Compensating for the tech retail implosion?

Garett Rogers: YouTube in 3D: Ouch

Jason D. O'Grady: 3G iPod touch in two to three months?

Matthew Miller: iPhone 3GS browser speed tests can't beat Opera Mobile 9.7

TorrentFreak; DRM is Dead, RIAA Says

Hiner: Microsoft is switching from defense back to offense

Dan Kusnetzky: Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System

Ryan Naraine: Some important truths about pen-testing

Jason Hiner: CIOs: How to waste your IT budget and get fired

Jennifer Bergen: T-Mobile offers deep discounts with Open Box program

AOL's Armstrong: Dial-up matters (a lot)

TechCrunch: The Most Engaged Brands On The Web

Richard Koman: With Kazaa, TPB going legit, are illegal downloads over?

Kingsley-Hughes: Intel to debut "Postville" SSDs in August

Rachel King: Understanding macro mode on a point-and-shoot camera

Linux exploit evades security barrier

Blankenhorn: Should your genes be open source?

• Wikipedia push for Ogg Theora

EMC outlines where Data Domain will fit

Heather Clancy: Ricoh latest imaging tech company to offer "green office" assessment

Forbes: Apple's Secret Weapon: Your Mom

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Acer Aspire One netbook, Sanyo Xacti camcorder, Sony Cyber-shot

Christopher Dawson: Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education

Chris Jablonski: 'Invisibility cloak' could protect buildings against earthquakes

Michael Krigsman: TechTarget blogger of the week

Tom Foremski: A visit to Microsoft Research Labs in Cambridge

Harry Fuller: Having a bad air day?

• Are we re-training America?