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Hacking Truths: "Bad news for just about every WordPress blogger out there."

Who has two thumbs and isn't at all surprised at Nokia throwing MeeGo under the bus? This guy. The Nokia partnership with Microsoft is appalling and bad news for MeeGo, but not a surprise at all.

What comes next? That's up to Intel. Continue reading →

Computerworld UK: "The good news was that it offered one of the best line-ups of open source know-how in the UK I have come across.

The bad news was that the seminar's venue was quite small and not even full: these people really deserved a much bigger audience."

Ah, Comcast. Apparently the company sent an email to a user telling him that they had boosted the speeds on his broadband connection (which Comcast is trying to rebrand "Xfinity"), only to email him again a couple days later to admit they didn't really mean that.

With Facebook stomping all over users' privacy, there's been a lot of interest in open source and privacy friendly social network tools.

The good news is that Mozilla is getting involved with a new platform called sudoSocial. The bad news is that sudoSocial is very new, and not quite sure what it wants to be when it grows up.

A survey of fiber-to-the-home projects in the US finds that 16 percent of households can currently order up a fiber connection.

The bad news: fiber deployments have now slowed dramatically.

Wi-Fi Planet: "The good news, Melissa, is that you've done a great job of troubleshooting the problem. The bad news, of course, is that the problem still exists.

Now what? Let's first take a step back."

Linux Today Blog: "There is no mention of Linux anywhere. Thats the start of the bad news. There are upgrades of Splashtop available.

Thats the good news. You can't run Linux and upgrade. Thats the bad news."

Washington Monthly: "The system that Midland adopted is based on software originally written by doctors for doctors at the Veterans Health Administration, and it is what’s called "open source,""