Fedora 9 now lets you create a bootable Linux distribution on a flash drive with persistence. In other words, you can not only boot any PC that will accept USB drive booting into Linux, you can even boot into your own personal desktop. Now, that can be useful.
Perhaps the easiest way to set up your [...]

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were issued notices by India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a complaint that they were promoting techniques and products for the selection of an unborn child’s sex through advertising and links on their search engines.
The three companies were unavailable for comment, despite repeated phone calls to Yahoo in Bangalore, [...]

A beta release of the open source NetBeans 6.5 IDE is being offered by Sun Microsystems on Wednesday.
The beta, available for download, has features such as an IDE-wide “QuickSearch” shortcut, a more user-friendly interface, and an automatic Compile on Save [...]

Bits and pieces of Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner continue to seep out. Friday marked the quiet “public” launch of AdSense for Feeds, a service that was soft-launched to a small group of AdSense users back in May.
Once integrated into publishers’ RSS feeds, it’ll serve up contextually-related advertising based around the content, helping publishers make money [...]

Lenovo has released the ThinkPad W700 laptop aimed at photographers and designers, offering a built-in graphics tablet and color calibrator. This 17-inch widescreen mobile workstation is bundled with the new Nvidia Quadro FX 2700M and 3700M Open GL graphics processors with up to 1GB of video memory. It also features up to 8GB of high [...]

Lenovo has let details slip on the next iteration of its MacBook Air-challenging laptop — the ThinkPad X300 — unsurprisingly dubbed the X301.

The new device ups the processor ante by adding the as-yet-unreleased Intel Core 2 Duo ULV (ultra low voltage) U9300 (1.2GHz) and U9400 (1.4GHz), both with a 6MB L2 cache and 1066MHz FSB. [...]