http://www.itworld.com/government xx http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85605/chrome-shines-gore-opines-staffs-decline Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85605/chrome-shines-gore-opines-staffs-decline#comments Business Government Green IT Legal Mobile & wireless Operating systems Personal tech Security Software Windows Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:14 -0500 ITworld staff 85605 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/85579/teen-gets-prison-term-attack-scientology-web-site A New Jersey teenager was sentenced to a year in jail and was fined $37,500 after pleading guilty to charges in connection with a DDOS attack on the Church of Scientology Web site. http://www.itworld.com/security/85579/teen-gets-prison-term-attack-scientology-web-site#comments Government Security News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:10:11 -0500 ITworld staff 85579 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85542/iphone-owners-demand-see-apple-source-code iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85542/iphone-owners-demand-see-apple-source-code#comments Government Hardware Mobile & wireless Networking News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:10:07 -0500 ITworld staff 85542 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/government/85528/eu-gives-oracle-extra-time-respond-sun-inquiry Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been granted an extra week to defend their planned US$7 billion merger in front of European regulators, the European Commission said Friday. http://www.itworld.com/government/85528/eu-gives-oracle-extra-time-respond-sun-inquiry#comments Government Legal Open Source Software News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:40:54 -0500 ITworld staff 85528 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/government/85514/new-h-1b-hiring-bill-takes-aim-tech-firms Two U.S. Senators have proposed legislation that would bar any firm which lays off 50 or more workers from hiring guest workers holding H-1B visas. http://www.itworld.com/government/85514/new-h-1b-hiring-bill-takes-aim-tech-firms#comments Career Government IT management/strategy Software News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:10:22 -0500 ITworld staff 85514 at http://www.itworld.com