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Apple's cash hoard: Begging for a 'windfall tax'?--The company is making so much money right now that it will almost certainly lead to fear and loathing down the road.

How many strikes before a tech CEO is out?--Sometimes it just takes one event, if it's big and hairy enough. But some CEOs swing and miss dozens of times for years on end, and they're still in the game.

Targeted for hacking by reporters at my table--A CNET News reporter explains how she may or may not have gotten hacked at the Black Hat security conference.

If JetBlue's reading this, guys, it's time to grok the blogosphere--One PR expert knew how to use the Internet to fight back, and he's not the exception. We're long past the era when companies could screw over their customers without risking public humiliation.

Maybe everyone (not just VMware) violates the GPL--Its handling of binary kernels appears to be a risk VMware is willing to take. But given the increasing competition it's feeling from open-source virtualization, perhaps it should reconsider.