Dell announces plan to shift gaming focus to Alienware

The News Corp.-owned photo-sharing site will let members collaborate on photo groups--something that most of its rivals already do.

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The market's irrational expectations of open source--The very thing that the companies most need to do (i.e., take a long-term view of open source's benefits for their businesses) is the thing most likely to punish them in the market. Who said markets are rational?

Stimulate this: Buy American-made audio with your tax rebate check--The economic stimulus tax rebate checks are in the mail, and the Audiophiliac knows where they might do some good for our economy.

Rumor: Tibco getting acquired?--Will Tibco Software be the next enterprise software company to be consolidated.

R.E.M. offers 45 rpm vinyl--The new R.E.M. album comes in several formats, including long-playing 45 rpm vinyl, which apparently sounds better than 33 1/3.

It's the latest high-profile music release to use a streaming music site for a preview, which pulls in ad revenue while making users wait for a physical download.

The ninth incarnation of Red Hat's hobbyist version of Linux made a jump Ubuntu couldn't: KDE 4.

Tension increases in Lebanon over the design of secure, attack-resistant data networks, as Hezbollah defends the private fiber-optic network it has laid there.

At its Worldwide Developers Conference, developers can work with Apple engineers to design apps that focus on the device's multi-touch user screen, animation tech, and APIs.

Company to offer public preview for Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Server Solutions 2008, both based on mainstream server release from earlier this year.

Fisker Automotive plans to file for arbitration in an attempt to derail its electric-car rival's suit over trade secrets. Founder Henrik Fisker calls the suit "sour grapes."

Online retailer, which has a distribution center in Lone Star State, says it's complying with state law, but tax officials say they're "investigating" whether that's the case.

Episodes of six shows from the premium-cable network are now available (some at a premium price) on Apple's Store, including all 94 episodes of Sex and the City.

The media loves Apple, trashes Dell, and gives HP a pass? Perception supposedly is reality, but just whose perception is it?

Parent company of the Warbook, Jetman, and Super Snake apps clunking up your friends' Facebook profiles has pulled in first-round funding.

Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of the computer services giant mirrors, in some ways, Carly Fiorina's prior effort to but PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting.

It's official now. Deal will create a computer services giant intended to rival IBM in the market for serving business customers.

Also: IBM teraflops for the climate; Duke Energy's $100 million solar plan; how much sun to replace gas?; and the carbon footprint of eating farm animals.

Parry Aftab, founder of a global Internet kids-safety nonprofit, is turning her charity work into a consulting business for the fast-changing world of Web 2.0.

A group of Internet safety experts plans to announce a new start-up aimed at helping social networks provide safer Web 2.0 environments for kids and adults.

It's not always easy to tell whose posts are worth following. Statistics may be able to show which users of the micro-blogging service have the most influence.

Google shows developers a demo of Friend Connect at its Campfire One event. Next up: navigating the choppy social networking interoperability waters.

Microsoft's Mac unit is set to announce the new version of Office is selling three times as many copies as its predecessor.