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2:00 AM ET, May 22, 2007

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Direct2Dell:
Ubuntu 7.04 Offering—Technical Details  —  Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering.  —  Availabile Software and Hardware  — The default software …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Dell's Linux hardware support plans good news for desktop Linux  —  In a blog entry today, Dell has revealed new technical details that provide insight into the company's Ubuntu Linux preinstallation plans.  Dell will offer a default Ubuntu installation on select systems that it says will have …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google, Salesforce.com Discuss Alliance  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock price climbed by more than 4 percent Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a double-barreled attack on Microsoft Corp.
BBC:
Success for Everest mobile effort  —  A British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest.  —  In the early hours of 21 May, Rod Baber made two calls from the mountain's north ridge.  —  In the first call Mr Baber described the view …
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and All About Symbian
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Google Proposes Real-Time Auction Approach For Radio Spectrum Use  —  Google is stretching its real-time auctions theme to the limit: moving beyond advertising, it has proposed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to think outside the box in designing the rules for its upcoming auction …
Discussion: Bourse
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Prof. wants FCC spectrum auction winners to support "wireless network neutrality"
Discussion: Gizmodo and Epicenter
Ilse Jurriën / LetsGoDigital English Edition:
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100  —  Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 : Panasonic announce a new addition to the Lumix family of high-performance digital cameras.  The new Lumix DMC-FX100 combines 1/1.72-inch large 12.2-megapixel image recording with a superb, 28mm wide-angle Leica DC lens that features …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Panasonic gooses megapixels, zoom
Discussion: CNET News.com
Scott Martin / Red Herring:
Limelight Prices IPO  —  Akamai rival wants to raise as much as $198 million.  —  Limelight Networks on Monday priced its proposed initial public offering in hopes of raising as much as $198.7 million.  —  Tempe, Arizona-based Limelight, a high-performance content delivery network …
Google Online Security Blog:
Introducing Google's online security efforts  —  Online security is an important topic for Google, our users, and anyone who uses the Internet.  The related issues are complex and dynamic and we've been looking for a way to foster discussion on the topic and keep users informed.
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
ARIN: It's time to migrate to IPv6  —  Today, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) published a resolution its Board of Trustees had passed on IP number availability.  In short, the resolution says that since IPv4 addresses are running out, ARIN should "take any and all measures necessary …
Vikram Madan / Vikram Madan's Blog:
Post-winHEC Post  —  WinHEC 2007 seems to have gone well.  UMPC exposure was pretty-decent.  Bill Gates showed off UMPCs in his keynote.  I presented a session on UMPCs (somewhat ambiguously titled 'UMPC Ecosystem' - I'll post a link to the slides when they become public) …
Orbitcast:
BREAKING: Is XM down?  —  Seems like there's a massive outage going on with XM right now.  Reports have been coming in like crazy, and I myself in NYC haven't been able to get signal since about 12-noon.  —  UPDATE: Reportedly one of the satellites (SAT1) is down, and all of the repeaters are down due to a "software update."
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and digg
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
MyPunchbowl: The Algorithm Schedules Your Event  —  eVite has been a target of several startups over the past year.  Sites like Skobee or Renkoo have differentiated themselves by helping plan the casual outings for drinks or dinner.  Socializr is taking a social networking approach.
Mark Shuttleworth:
Microsoft is not the real threat  —  Much has been written about Microsoft's allegation of patent infringements in Linux (by which I'm sure they mean GNU/Linux ).  I don't think Microsoft is the real threat, and in fact, I think Microsoft and the Linux community will actually end up fighting on the same side of this issue.
Think Secret:
Death knell tolls for 17-inch iMac  —  Apple's pending iMac update will spell the end of the day for the 17-inch iMac, the most affordable computer in the line.  The refreshed iMac, currently on track to arrive by the end of June according to sources, will feature just 20- and 24-inch models.
Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Second Life gets a Bay State boost  —  Virtual world taps local technology  —  Second Life will soon be getting a second wind, with the help of some Bay State-bred technology.  —  Linden Lab, the San Francisco firm that created the popular online community, has acquired Windward Mark Interactive LLC …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Rootly relaunches... new UI, new features... a real news start page  —  Over the past few weeks I have been testing a new version of Rootly.  When I reviewed Rootly in December 2006, I defined it as, "Rootly is a news aggregator at its most basic definition."
Discussion: Mashable! and Marshall Kirkpatrick
 
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David S. Hirschman / Editor and Publisher:
Editors Explore Recent Redesigns at Major Web Sites
Discussion: Lost Remote
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Zoho Notebook looks good
Discussion: Mashable!
Robert J. Samuelson / Newsweek:
Long Live the News Business
Discussion: Publishing 2.0
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (937696)
Discussion: Zero Day
Stuart J. Johnston / PC World:
Microsoft Plugs Critical Vista Hole
Discussion: Neowin.net
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
New tech could lead to much bigger hard drives
Discussion: Neowin.net and Engadget
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
AMD shows sunny side of Barcelona
Discussion: Neowin.net
Andrew Pile / Vimeo / Welcome:
Zooomr Mark III Launch Demo!
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Robert McMillan / PC World:
Symantec to Ship Smart Phone Security Suite
Charles Jade / Ars Technica:
Steve Wozniak at Maker Faire
Discussion: MacUser
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
IBM's POWER6 flies the coop at 4.7GHz
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
MySpace to provide sex offender data to state AGs
BBC:
Music giant EMI agrees takeover
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Google Coop Embeds Gadgets in Search Results
Discussion: Mashable! and Zenrob
Ben Edelman:
Spyware Still Cheating Merchants and Legitimate Affiliates
BBC:
Wi-fi health fears are 'unproven'