Laptops/UMPCs

• Splashtop Linux conquers Asus laptops
• 3K introduces $299 ultra-portable laptop
  
  

  The Linux-based operating system is supported by a shock-resistant 4GB solid-state drive.

  
  
  
• Otellini: 'MID revolution will be centred round Linux'
  
  

  Intel's CEO has said that he sees the revolution that is about to happen around mobile internet devices (MID) such as the Eee PC and other Atom-based sub-notebooks will be "centred round Linux", in an interview with Associated Press.

  
  
  
• After Flood of Pictures, Are Any Surprises Left?
• Asustek Gives Sneak Peek of Desktop Eee PC
• Busted by Blogger, Dell Offers Peek at Low-cost Laptop

GNU/Linux

• A new all-in-one server
  
  

  Security issues make me wary of small businesses supporting their own e-mail and Web servers, especially when Microsoft servers are used since they attract so many attacks. Sutus avoids these issues by using a hardened version of Gentoo Linux with all non-essential services stripped out.

  
  
  
• Mandriva 2008 Spring Powerpack - A great Easy OS
• Review: Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring
  
  

  No matter whether you are a Linux newbie or power user, you can always use a stable desktop distribution, and they don't come any better than Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring.

  
  
  
• Nicaragua is using mandriva!!
• Linux Nightlife Wants You to Come Out and Play
• Red Hat’s PV drivers boosts performance of Windows, older Linux guests on Xen-based RHEL 5
• Android to offer iPhone-like App Store
• Google Shows off Android

Open Source/Free Software

• Group interview: a graphic view of the open hardware movement. Part 2: technical and social issues
• Mozilla Screaming Monkey offers freedom from IE 'millstone'
• Hands on: Plasma continues to advance in KDE 4.1 beta 1
  
  

  KDE 4.1 development is moving at a swift pace and the environment will offer much of the functionality required by average users when it is finally released in late July. Those who want to try it early should check out the KDE4Daily initiative, which offers frequently updated builds that can be tested in a Qemu environment.

  
  
  
• KDE at LinuxTag 2008, Day 2 - Taking over the World
  
  

  Today a group of CIOs did a guided tour through the exhibition halls, and of course the icing cake was the KDE booth. There the main question was: how can KDE be interesting for such people, for companies.

  
  
  
• Give Me 3 Synths, Part 3
  
  

  This article concludes our tour of some of the recent (and not-so-recent) software synthesizers for Linux. I hope you've enjoyed the presentations, and I especially hope you've been inspired to check out the synths for yourself.

  
  
  

Microsoft

• What's up with Microsoft India?
  
  

  How bad is things in Microsoft India? The GM Neelam Dhawan is fired and going back to HP. She is taking Rajiv Srivastava with her.
  
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  The CVP, MD and all her direct reports made this company a miserable place to work for! They created a feudal fiefdom for themselves.

  
  
  
• Vroom! Wii passes Xbox 360 in US
• Yahoo says Microsoft no longer keen to merge
• Where did Microsoft's ambition go?
  
  

  Microsoft does need ambition on the web. It has been playing catch up there. It needs to change. Part of that change will come from a public recognition that it is losing badly, with a complete corporate focus on winning.

  
  
  

Leftovers (Criminals, Some in Suits)

• ID Cards: Scandalous as Well as Idiotic
  
  

  In other words, the UK government is trying to use a kind of financial blackmail to keep its idiotic projects going: continue or cough up. And to add insult to injury, it cloaks its activities in secrecy. What a morally corrupt bunch.

  
  
  
• Akamai: US Home To Attacks, Slow Internet
• 22 arrested in hacking ring
• Media police assault takes down legit video website
• In Revision3 DOS outage, has Hollywood gone too far?