Italy antitrust agency extends probe to Google Inc
(Reuters)

Reuters - Italy's antitrust agency said on Friday it was broadening its investigation into allegations that Google's Italian news website coerced Italian newspapers into posting their stories to include U.S. parent Google Inc.
Canonical rents out Ubuntu mavens

Karmic Koala Alpha 5 arrives
Canonical has announced a new type of support for enterprises running Ubuntu that need some extra hands-on help: the Premium Service Engineer (or PSE).…
Court: Microsoft OK to sell Word during appeal
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Internet addiction center opens in US
(AP)

AP - Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game "World of Warcraft." As a result, he flunked out of the University of Iowa.
Apple plugs 15 Java for Mac security holes

Toshiba to launch its first touch-screen tablet

OpenOffice has released version 3.1.1

Announced today by openoffice the release of the new version 3.1.1 of openoffice , the new version fixes a number of bugs in the previous version and a potential security vulnerability, but does not add any new functionality.
EU probes Oracle-Sun deal, cites open-source issue
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YouTube talks to studios on movie rentals says source
(Reuters)

Reuters - Online video site YouTube is in talks with several major movie studios about renting movies to users by streaming the movies over the Internet according to a person familiar with the talks on Wednesday.
Red Hat Bolsters Virtualization Play with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

- Red Hat has released the fourth update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, which lays the foundation for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of solutions. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 delivers expanded virtualization capabilities with the inclusion ...