According to InfoWorld, the FCC has rescheduled a decision on how much power the Commission has — or should have — to regulate phone and net providers’ access to apartment and office buidlings.

nwfusion.comarticle begins,
“Google, Lycos and Netscape Communications’ search engine
technologies all came at least partially from university
laboratories fueled by the kinds of grants the National Science
Foundation announced Wednesday.”

“This is the Mac users new war. Not against Windows, or Linux, or god help it Be, no, it’s against our own machines. We have to fight to get it back to our standards, and, in truth, we’re going to have a lot of causalities. The Mac’s disadvantages are too noticeable to be ignored. It lacks in the areas that make up our greatest concerns. Software, pricing, and support by third-party vendors.” –Kelly McNeill

Upside says Oracle was twice as profitable last quarter as in the same quarter a year ago, which is much better than analysts had expected.

Hotmail’s founder is back home in India, investing and innovating like mad. And, according to this Business Week interview, Sabeer Bhatia is having a lot more fun than he would have had if he’d stayed with Microsoft after he sold Hotmail to them for $400 million.

Continuation of the 32bitsonline.com series that is going so deeply into Athlons that it is almost down to the molecular level.

Marc Andressen tells ZDNet about new products and services Loudcloud is moving toward now that the company is celebrating its first anniversary.

Very heated Slashdot discussion about a ruling by a Eurpopean Union administrative board to allow software patents. It’s not a final decision. There’s time to sign petitions, and petitions to sign.

Salon gets silly with ideas for new top level domain names, like .not for parodies. Obviously no one could think Microsoft.not is really Microsoft. Right?

Frank Batten Jr. invested heavily and early in Red Hat and did very well. Now, says Business Week, Batten is investing heavily in an Open Source database company, and claims he’s going to compete with Oracle for database dominance.