1 February – Five Stories You Need to Read

Network Performance Daily has an interesting article today entitled “Ten years of pushing for Linux adoption in the workplace (and why I gave up)”. 

Reuters reports that U.S. identity theft losses have fallen in 2006.

CNetNews.com points out that “Congress and the White House are key technology players in America, but it’s time for them to learn how technology really works, what drives innovation and how to get government out of the way of what could be a spectacular future.”

Internetnews.com wonders, “Could Vista save Dell?”

According to the Washington Post, “[d]ata privacy is likely to be among the hottest technology issues to face Congress this year, thanks in part to interest from the new chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee.”