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The standards-setting body, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will review and revise laptop battery standards as a result of the Sony debacle, Macworld reports.

The IEEE will devise new standards to “further safeguard the reliability” of the batteries. However, it will take 18 months before the new standards are finalized. More …

ZDNet’s Open Source Blog brings us news of a “new” IBM-sponsored study on Linux, which offers an explanation as to why Microsoft and Oracle have of late embraced the open-source operating system.

The war is over and Linux won. The truth of the assertion is in a chart near the back of the report. It shows that 83 percent of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux next year, against 23 percent for Windows. The move is slower for larger enterprises, but the direction is clear. More …