Michael Jackson Had a Patent (Discovery News)

The news of Michael Jackson's death yesterday caught everyone by surprise. In the flurry of news afterward comes another surprise: Jackson had a patent. The King of Pop was apparently a Prince of Tech.

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Slide Shot: Cracking Open the Apple iPhone 3G S (TechRepublic)

The latest, greatest Apple iPhone has been released and the folks at TechRepublic just had to crack it open. With the help of their friends over at iFixit, take a look at what makes the Apple iPhone 3G S tick.

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Warning: Windows 7 beta bi-hourly shutdowns start next week (Ars Technica)

The Windows 7 beta will begin bi-hourly shutdowns on July 1, 2009 and will expire on August 1, 2009.

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Google dangles Outlook sync in front of Exchange-using IT (Ars Technica)

If your business is looking to trade running its own Exchange server for Google Apps cloud services, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook may ease the migration pain for those users that are more comfortable with Microsoft's Outlook client.

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Opera bests iPhone's mobile browser market share—or does it? (Ars Technica)

The latest news in mobile browsers suggests that Opera has surpassed the iPhone as the current king in the mobile browser space. But sometimes there are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics.

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iPhone owners getting control of digital signage (Engadget)

Ever dream of controlling a billboard with your phone?

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GM to Cisco: A momentous passing of the torch (Network World)

It's official: General Motors is off the Dow, and Cisco takes its place. The transition is more than just a dry Wall Street accounting maneuver: From a cultural, economic, and societal perspective, it marks a seismic shift in how our world is organized.

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