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A Daily Digest of IT Blogs

Microhoo: ready... PROXY FIGHT!

It's IT Blogwatch: in which billionaire investor Carl Icahn starts a proxy fight to restart the Microsoft/Yahoo merger talks. Not to mention a bizarre German street performer...

Juan Carlos Perez reports:

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Verizon cuddles the penguin; joins LiMo

Can you hear IT Blogwatch now? In which Verizon says it loves Linux and signs up as a member of the LiMo Foundation. Not to mention what is possibly the most fun coffee table ever...

Matt Hamblen reports:

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Fedora 9 dazzles with its shiny newness

It's IT Blogwatch: in which we take a headgear-flavored gander at Fedora 9. Not to mention why we hate smug, self-satisfied Apple Macintosh users...

Todd R. Weiss reports:

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HP invents a plan to buy EDS

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Hewlett-Packard is in talks to acquire Electronic Data Systems (EDS to you and me). Not to mention cool Huygens-esque physics experiments with metronomes and soda cans...

Patrick Thibodeau dons his thinking cap:

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RIM is Bold with new 3G BlackBerry

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Research In Motion unveils its sexy new device -- the BlackBerry Bold (née 9000). Not to mention How to advertise an unpronounceable, orange, Scottish soda to women...

Yardena Arar reports:

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OpenOffice 3.0 beta arrives

Oooh, it's IT Blogwatch: in which OpenOffice.org 3.0 breaks cover, to delight and frustrate in equal measure. Not to mention two new entries for the Uxbridge English Dictionary...

Peter Cohen reports:

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FBI Patriot probe prevented by EFF, etc.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which the Internet Archive/EFF/ACLU declare victory over the FBI's super-secret, Patriot-Act-style request for information. Not to mention what it would be like if Facebook was played out in real life...

Jaikumar Vijayan reports:

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Microhoo: fat lady has not yet sung

It's IT Blogwatch: in which we ponder the fate of Jerry Yang's career -- will he be first against the wall when the shareholders revolt? Or are negotiations between Yahoo! and Microsoft still going on in secret? Not to mention ten drool-worthy luxury workstations...

Elizabeth Montalbano reports:

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Sun's OpenSolaris: now with added cloudiness

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Sun finally releases OpenSolaris, but with a surprising, cloud-computing twist, courtesy of Amazon EC2. Not to mention a joke for Photoshop users...

Heather Harreld Havenstein has, err, this: [Good grief -Ed.]

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Microsoft gives up: what now for Ballmer?

It's IT Blogwatch: in which we examine the fallout from Microsoft giving up on its bid to buy Yahoo! Does this mean Ballmer must go? Will it drive Yahoo into the arms of Google? What will Microsoft do with its bulging war chest? Not to mention the perils of the company picnic...

In case you've been living under a rock, Juan Carlos Perez reports:

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SCO in court again: Novell wants its $19,979,561.00

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Novell's countersuit against SCO has started, with bloggers highlighting hilarious, contradictory statements from SCO execs -- enjoy schadenfreude much? Not to mention the hidden Apple parody in Grand Theft Auto IV...

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Happy 15th birthday, World Wide Web. What next?

201 created IT Blogwatch: in which we help Sir Tim Berners-Lee celebrate the 15th birthday of the Web; and discover that -- like the Queen -- it has more than one per year. Not to mention explaining Hollywood...

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No, you can't have XP SP3. Nothing to see here. Move along.

It's an updated IT Blogwatch: in which Microsoft pulls Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of incompatibility problems with its own software. Not to mention Twitter tweets as art...

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Apple: iMislead with new iMac?

One more IT Blogwatch: in which Apple launches a surprise Monday announcement: refreshed iMacs. But what's this? Where did that processor come from? Is Apple being a little economical with the truth? Not to mention a silly, but well-executed game...

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Microsoft/Yahoo merger: so what happens now?

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Microsoft's deadline expires for Yahoo! to accept its takeover terms, and we wonder where they'll go from here. Will the offer improve, will Microsoft go proxy-fight-hostile, or will Ballmer just give up? Not to mention the top 22 geek bumper stickers...

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