Google Forces Web Standards Issue Using Sexy Buttons (TechCrunch)

Google made a very minor but significant change to their search homepage earlier this week. A few Chrome and Safari users may have noticed that the search buttons now have a certain zing to them, a new and pretty look, with slightly rounded corners, a border around them and a cool looking gradient.

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Report: Thousands of Hotmail passwords posted (Ars Technica)

Thousands of password details for Windows Live Hotmail accounts may have been posted online for everyone to see.

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Google Wave to be released to 100,000 testers Wednesday (CNN.com)

Google Wave, a product that promises to revolutionize online communication, will go out to about 100,000 beta testers Wednesday. The Web application from Google Inc. combines elements of e-mail, chat, Wiki documents, blogs and photo-sharing sites to create a form of Internet communication called a "hosted conversation," or a "wave."

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US 'to loosen' grip on internet (BBC)

The US government is expected to relax control over how the internet is run when it signs an accord with net regulator Icann on Wednesday.

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Not an obscene racist after all: 4 flagged for Facebook fake (Ars Technica)

Four teenagers are the targets of a lawsuit alleging that they created a fake Facebook profile to aggressively target another teen. The profile contained obscene, racist, and otherwise questionable remarks, but was apparently authentic enough to convince numerous friends and even college recruiters that this kid was not one to get involved with.

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Opinion: The coming tablet wars (CrunchGear)

Think back to 2001. A young man got up on stage one afternoon in November to announce something new and amazing: an operating system dedicated to tablet computing. That young man was Microsoft’s Bill Gates and that operating system was Windows XP Tablet PC edition.

Chances are that is the first and last time you saw a working tablet computer.

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