A small town in Minnesota wants to build its own fiber to the home network. The local telco didn’t want to do it, but it doesn’t want the city competing with it, either. That means one thing: lawsuit.http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080723-telco-wont-install-fiber-sues-to-keep-city-from-doing-it.html

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, calls on Linux developers to make the presentation layer of desktop Linux applications even more attractive to users than Apple’s Mac OS.http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Shuttleworth-Make-Desktop-Linux-Better-than-Apple/?kc=rss

Windows iPhone 3G jailbreak tool releasedhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/24/windows-iphone-3g-jailbreak-tool-released/

According to initial reports, an announcement due later today will state that major ISPs in the UK have reached an agreement to work with the music industry to start mass warning file-sharers. The deal, brokered by the government, will see hundreds of thousands warned but not disconnected.http://torrentfreak.com/uk-isps-to-start-sending-mass-080724/

Now anyone with a Google login will be able to submit an article and, if they choose, have ads displayed through the Internet search leader’s marketing system.http://www.physorg.com/news136047521.html

Gadi Singer, Vice President of Intel’s Mobility Group, and Doug Davis, Vice President of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, held a conference call today to discuss a brand new product line from Intel targeted at security, storage, communications, and industrial applications, the Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor family.http://www.hothardware.com/News/Intel_Unveils_New_System_On_A_Chip_Designs/

In early July BT announced that it was going to invest £1.5bn in fibre optic cables, bringing access to faster broadband to up to 10 million UK homes. But there will be large swathes of the country untouched by super-fast broadband and, for some, the answer is a more DIY, community-based approach to fibre. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7520240.stm

MySpace took another step in cooperating with other Internet services, joining a coalition that allows people to use the same accounts and passwords across the Web. The OpenID coalition now includes Time Warner Inc.’s AOL, Google Inc.’s Blogger, Yahoo Inc. and blogging services Vox, WordPress, LiveJournal. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9233U7G0.htm

Six of the UK’s biggest net providers are believed to backed a government plan to tackle music piracy online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7522334.stm

When Digg’s Lead Architect Joe Stump took the stage at the Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco earlier today, something in one of his screen shots caught our attention. He was there to show how users will soon be able to log in to Digg without an account via their Facebook credentials (the new Facebook […]