GOOD: Better late than...
Microsoft says it is working on a fix for an eight-year-old flaw in Windows that lets hackers exploit a Web proxy autoconfiguration protocol and take over groups of machines via a single attack.
BAD: Questioning Google's magic touch
Not everyone is drinking the Google Kool-Aid. Tony Rizzo, a wireless market watcher for The 451 Group, said during a presentation this week that regarding Google becoming a big telecom player: "My prediction is that Google winds up biting off more than it can chew here and we're not going to see the Google magic that we've seen in the past."
UGLY: OLTP gets sued
The One Laptop Per Child project started off as such a feel-good story, too. But now a Massachusetts company has sued the OLPC Association for patent infringement, charging the project with stealing its designs for a multilingual keyboard. OLPC released a statement, saying it has not yet seen the legal filings in the case.
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