Who's the biggest U.S. e-mail service of them all? (Hint: It's not Gmail)

On the day Facebook is expected to throw its hat into the crowded and competitive e-mail ring, it's worth noting what the current landscape looks like. By Mary Jo Foley
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/whos-the-biggest-us-e-mail-service-of-them-all-hint-its-not-gmail/7967?tag=nl.e539

Microsoft vs. McAfee: How free antivirus outperformed paid

How effective is free antivirus software? Ed Bott had a chance to see a real, in-the-wild example just this month, and the results were, to put it mildly, unexpected.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-vs-mcafee-how-free-antivirus-outperformed-paid/2614?tag=nl.e539

Google Copies Bing. There. I Said It. By Stephen Chapman

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/seo/google-copies-bing-there-i-said-it/982?tag=nl.e540

Robots speak up and defend global warming

Nigel Leck developed a robot, that scans Twitter every five minutes for people tweeting negative things about global warming, and then answers them with scientific evidence showing them they are in fact wrong.  

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/weblife/robots-speak-up-and-defend-global-warming/2000?tag=nl.e540

RockMelt: The Next Social Browser

Rich Harris thinks RockMelt is a cool concept that was designed and engineered exceptionally well.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/feeds/rockmelt-the-next-social-browser/3119?tag=nl.e540

Firefox 4 beta 7 - Fast, but Chrome and Opera are faster

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/firefox-4-beta-7-fast-but-chrome-and-opera-are-faster/10325?tag=nl.e539

Medical travel to U.S. is growing, too

When people think about the idea of medical travel, they usually envision an American heading to a foreign land, such as Thailand, India or Mexico, but the inbound market for medical travel is also growing, a study by HealthCare Tourism International said. Neilesh Patel, executive director, said the growing upper and middle classes in India, South Korea, the Middle East and elsewhere are increasingly traveling to Western countries for medical procedures. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/travel/world-travel-market/8124182/Adventure-holidays-for-the-over-50s.html