E-Trade VP Talks Open-Source (PC Magazine) PC Magazine - Q&A:

E-Trade VP Talks Open-Source (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Q&A: E-Trade's Vice President of Architecture Lee Thompson explains how the company has leveraged open source to save millions of dollars annually.

Is Deal Between Google and AOL Disastrous?
The new 'alliance' between Google and AOL is moving forward, to the apparent chagrin of suitor Microsoft, but the early analysis of the deal shows a concern by at least one major AOL investor over what the deal portends. Is this a disaster?

VoIP Struggles Toward Prime Time

With the departure of FCC chairman Michael Powell, it looks like telecom
regulation reform isn't going to happen this year. What a surprise wink wink.
But regulation snafus are only one barrier in the minefield that Internet telephony
providers must cross in order to bring the technology to the masses. It's not
going to happen overnight, but VoIP is coming. So who will cash in? Will it be
cable companies, wireless providers or VoIP-focused specialty players like
Vonage? Will consumers save money in the end? And are local telephone
companies doomed as voice communications slowly but surely turn to the
Internet?

World of film reviews changed by Internet (Reuters)
Reuters - Once upon a time, you checked your local newspaper's film critic for advice about what to see on any given weekend. Or maybe you read the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly or the New Yorker, or checked out TV critics with national clout such as Roger Ebert or Gene Shalit.