Icahn, Microsoft target Yahoo; Microsoft's future OS [TECH UPDATE]

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Icahn, Ballmer push to boot Yang

Larry Dignan: Activist investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft are now in cahoots to toss Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the company's board of directors. Icahn and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are plotting to "do a transaction together."

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Microsoft-Yahoo more awkward than an 8th grade dance
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'Cairo' revisited?

Mary Jo Foley and Ed Bott say speculation on Microsoft's Midori is running wild. Is it another attempt by Microsoft to deliver on "Cairo," Microsoft's distributed, object-oriented OS that never saw the light of day? Will it ever replace Windows?

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Ed Bott: Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS
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What could Open Office do with a business model?

Dana Blankenhorn: You can say Microsoft has found a way to crush open source. Or you can say open source has been shown a business model it can use to crack the mass market and gain a sustainable revenue base.

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Mary Jo Foley: Office subscription bundle due mid-July
Christopher Dawson: So about that Microsoft licensing
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Ed Bott: Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy name
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First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: On Saturday the first alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" was made available for download. What interests me as far as all these new developments go is to see how enthusiastically are embracing subnotebooks.

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Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travel

Ryan Naraine: Summer travel means lost laptops. Make sure private data stays secure. With Windows XP Pro and Vista, Microsoft offers a nifty feature to encrypt files or folders. Here's how.

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Gallery: How to encrypt laptop data, step by step
Court: Feds can search laptops without suspicion


Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?

Ryan Naraine: In partnership with indie security consultant Rich Mogull, Mozilla has launched a valuable Security Metrics Project that could help to ? we can only hope ? put an end to the silly notion that patch-counting helps to determine a product's security posture.

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Beaches and BBQs vs. Blackberrys: Holiday weekends of the IT set

Deb Perelman: For all of the talk these days about this about the pie-in-the-sky hope that all of the wage-earners in this land can achieve some semblance of work-life balance, you hear a lot less about those jobs for which the notion of guaranteed days, evenings or holiday weekends off are, quite honestly, a joke.

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How Linux app install leaves one PC expert befuddled

Jason Perlow: Until this stuff is totally foolproof, even seasoned PC experts like Adrian are going to be thrown for a loop. Do we need a concerted effort to make Linux applications easier to install?

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EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube (and its users)

On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and Larry talk about all the search happenings this week?Google and Adobe, Microsoft and Powerset and the never-ending Microhoo saga?as well as the Viacom vs. Google lawsuit.

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Facebook VP of technical operations: Jonathan Heiliger

Facebook's Jonathan Heiliger speaks to CNET News.com's Dan Farber about the balancing act between innovating quickly and building a stable infrastructure at a company moving at breakneck-speed.

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FriendFeed, the glue for social networks

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TripIt, getting organized for travel

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E-Loan CIO: Jay Shah -- IT innovation amidst a housing meltdown

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