links for 2009-8-14: Microsoft revealed to spread FUD; Twitter as queueing service; Palm Pre slowing
Dell: High Linux netbook returns a myth - Dell refutes Microsoft's FUD that netbooks running Linux are being returned in droves: "We don't see a significant difference between the return rate for Windows versus the rate for Linux. We've been quite pleased with the stability and technical soundness of the Linux machines."
Brazilian ID thieves using Twitter as botnet command channel - Just goes to show that any cool technology can be used for good and bad. But I often thought one could use Twitter as a poor mans queueing system for those too cheap to Amazon's Simple Queue Service.