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Gates-Seinfeld schtick more viral than 'I'm a PC'--The two Gates-Seinfeld commercials have enjoyed 4.3 million more viral-video views than Microsoft's replacement "I'm a PC" campaign, according to Visible Measures.

Open source can still win in a down economy--Economics are on the side of open source--the best value for money means enterprises can continue to grow during the economic downturn.

Marc Fleury's OpenRemote gets into databases with Beehive--The OpenRemote project kicks off a central, open-source database for managing home-automation codes.

It's the product, stupid: branding firms and industrial design--Carl Alviani describes a trend that has been emerging for a while now: Not only do digital agencies like R/GA enter the branding domain, branding, marcom, and advertising firms also round out their services portfolio by adding product design capabilities.

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Scott Adams: The unexpected economist--Dilbert cartoonist is making significant personal contributions to discourse on the economy, but he needs to learn how to distinguish good arguments from bad ones.

Ubuntu misses the memo on Stallman's cloud computing rant--When choosing an IT system, you don't choose what will be most profitable for your vendor. You choose what works, and SaaS and open source "just work."

Where's the artist outcry over record labels?--Musicians are taking Apple to task for its call to reduce royalty rates. Maybe it's time they start pointing fingers at the record labels too.

Fujitsu to sell hard drive unit to Western Digital?--Company will sell its hard disk drive business to Western Digital, according to a Japan-based report.

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Windows Mobile licensing fees to remain intact--With all of the free mobile OS offerings, one would expect Microsoft to respond with price cuts.

Fine-tune Vista's indexing options--Choose which drives, folders, and files Windows' built-in search function indexes.

Netflix adds 2,500 streaming movies from Starz--Netflix is partnering with Starz to make 2,500 additional movies available to subscribers for instant viewing online.

Ellison's 'What, me worry?' moment on cloud computing--Oracle has bet the bank on consolidation of old-world IT assets, but the long-term trend is away from on-premise applications and toward software as a service.

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Facebook delivers version 2.0 of its iPhone app Now available in the iTunes store, the updated iPhone app delivers many of the features of the full Facebook site.

Get a 1-terabyte external drive for $89.99 (AR) Lowest. Price. Ever. Who says terabytes don't come cheap?

Acquia backs Drupal for enterprise adoption The company has released a commercially supported distribution of Drupal, a leading open-source web content management system.

Man in China fined $277 for porn on drive, then forgiven The crux of the legal claim, according to press reports, appears to be the distribution function of BitTorrent, which was how the accused said he obtained the video.