ZDNet.com writes that “Dell says it’s on board with the Microsoft and Novell Linux partnership.  As part of the deal, Dell will buy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft. It will also launch a services and marketing program to woo existing Linux users who are not Dell customers to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.”

Yahoo!News has an interesting article on a Pew Internet and American Life Project survey “about the technology people have, how they use it, and what they think about it” which “shatters assumptions and reveals where companies might be able to expand their audiences.”

According to the New York Times, “

[i]n an unusual step for the news media, three journalists whose private phone records were scrutinized by investigators working for Hewlett-Packard intend to sue the company for invasion of privacy.”

In a different article, the New York Times reports that “[t]hrough a program that recently emerged from an experimental phase, the Defense Department is using some of the nation’s top technology investors to help it find innovations from tiny start-up companies, which have not traditionally been a part of the military’s vast supply chain.”

CNetNews.com writes that, according to documents obtained by the publication, NBC Universal on Friday joined Viacom in filing “a request with the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles asking that they be allowed to file a friends-of-the court brief in support of journalist Robert Tur” who says that “footage he shot of the 1992 Los Angeles riots appeared repeatedly on the video-sharing site.”  On the same day, “England’s most prestigious soccer league and an independent music publisher filed a class action suit against YouTube” which alleges that “YouTube is participating in widespread copyright infringement.”