Microsoft releases out-of-band patches to address issues from January’s Patch Tuesday

Vendor hopes to create a Linux community around low-cost laptops

Plus search engine marketing efforts and smartphones running on Linux

Aspire one is a small form-factor and ultra-portable computer

Company’s goal is to help customers resolve problems faster and avoid trouble in the first place

New Wind laptop will target business executives and will likely be out in 2009

rnVARs look for ways to increase business with existing customers and recruit new onesrn

Plus, Windows XP Home and a new way to view books

Solid-state drives from Sun will replace spinning disk drives later this year

Data provider, Jigsaw, announces its Open Data Initiative

Company hopes to catapult into a new segment of portable Internet devices