News to know Monday

Notable headlines:

Larry Dignan: Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'

• WSJ: New Rejection from Yahoo Sets The Stage for Ugly Fight
• Dana Blankenhorn: We don't want you to talk, Mr. Ballmer
• Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely

Garett Rogers: Gears for Google Calendar may be getting close, again

Zack Whittaker: Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 2)

Joshua Greenbaum: Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way

iPhone recap (conveniently bundled to skip over if you suffer fromiPhone fatigue): 

• iPhone review
• Jason O'Grady: AT&T's 3G coverage discrepancies (updated)
• Calendar syncing problems with MobileMe
• The iPhone 3G's yellow screen of warmth explained
• Apple's iPhone 3G activation/sync fiasco (updated 5x)
• iPhone 3G: Initial reaction (updated 3x)
• Some seedy developers cutting the line at the App Store
• TechRepublic: Cracking Open the Apple iPhone 3G (right)
• News.com: Steve Wozniak out of line at iPhone store?

• Gallery: iPhone 3G launch at the Apple Store in Atlantic City (right)
• Free SMS on the iPhone
• Garett Rogers: Google's iPhone app is really good
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughe
  s: iPod touch software 2.0 - Well worth upgrading
• My iPod touch upgraded to 2.0
• Gallery: iPod touch 2.0
• Jason Perlow: EPIC iFAIL
• Heather Clancy: Where to ditch that old iPhone? Recycling and mobile phones
• Ryan Naraine: Apple ships (long overdue) iPhone security patches
• David Morgenstern: Dude, today is not the day to upgrade to iPhone 2.0 software
• Dennis Howlett: Oracle joins iPhone mania
• GigaOm: New iPhone Will Jumpstart Demand For Wireless Broadband
• Nate McFeters: Apple releases patches for dangerous QuickTime flaws in Apple TV 2.1 product
• Matthew Miller: iPhone App store; why do we need 10 tip calculators?
• Mary Jo Foley: The iPhone: Now with Microsoft ActiveSync support
• iPhone 3G poses barriers to business adoption
• Dana Blankenhorn: iPhone has a year to make its open source play
• Michael Krigsman: Apple's MobileMe experiences post-launch pain
• Photos: Scenes from the iPhone 3G launch
• iPhone 3G launch at the Apple Store in Atlantic City
• Video: Out of the Box: Apple iPhone 3G

Michael Krigsman: Computer problems delay air passengers in Fiji

Crackberry blogs: Exclusive: First Live Pics of the BlackBerry Thunder!

Deb Perelman:My Awesome IT Job: Chief architect, The Hive

• Most employees are frustrated with IT

News.com: Google, Viacom now clashing over YouTube employee records

Nate McFeters: Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads

Jennifer Leggio: Eating a little crow about Plurk

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 million

• Best Buy to sell Ubuntu for $19.99

Roland Piquepaille:Miniaturized DNA sewing machines

• Accessing Internet at 640 Gb/s?
• Care-O-Bot, your future robotic butler

Ars Technica:

Opinion: How Microsoft can turn the negative Vista PR tide

Joe McKendrick: If you want SOA, fine... it's a 'SOA'

• Now, SOA governance goes open source
• Paul Murphy: In the information age, IT innovation means everything

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Matthew Miller: Nokia kicks off aggressive recycling program, Nokia Chat, and E71 further usage thoughts Heather Clancy: What's transparent carbon neutrality worth to you?

Andrew Nusca: Weekend Gadget Guidance: Back up and restore your USB thumb drive, free

John Carroll: When proprietary companies go open source

Nate McFeters: Open Discussion: Software firewalls

• Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90% of desktops currently at risk*

Blankenhorn:End of the hero-doctor era

• Intel productizes health monitoring

Richard Koman: Wow! FCC to punish Comcast

Paul Murphy: From stunned outrage to stunned laughter in two seconds