22 January – Five Stories You Need to Read

ZDNet points out that the newly announced merger between FSG and ODSL “[shows] who’s driving open source–corporations.”

According to Computerworld, Steve Jobs’ blockbuster keynote address at last week’s Macworld was "a colossal mistake”.

The Register reports that “[t]he US hosted more than one third of the websites containing malicious code identified during 2006. The country also relayed more spam than any other nation last year, according to a study by net security firm Sophos.”

BBC News writes that new “European Union laws on cross-border trade will hurt online sales and may cause legal chaos, UK business leaders have warned.”

The Wall Street Journal reports that “Google Inc. has filed a patent application for technology that would let it show advertisements and merchant offers on digital billboards and kiosks in retail settings, in a move that underscores the breadth of the Internet giant’s off-Internet expansion plans.”