37signals.com asks what happens after you've been acquired. Its bottom line is that whether it’s Flickr, Delicious, MyBlogLog, or Upcoming, the post-purchase story is a similar one.

WIRED Reports that Egypt’s largest ISPs shut off their networks Thursday, making it impossible for traffic to get to websites hosted in Egypt or for Egyptians to use e-mail, Twitter or Facebook. The regime of President Hosni Mubarak also ordered the shut down of mobile phone networks, including one run by the U.K.-based Vodafone, all in an attempt to undermine the growing protests over Mubarak’s autocratic rule of the country.

One of the most difficult decisions that a CEO ever makes is whether or not to sell her company.  Logically, determining whether selling a company will be better in the long term than continuing to run it stand-alone involves a huge number of factors.

NY Times: "To check out the worm, you have to know the machines,” said an American expert on nuclear intelligence. “The reason the worm has been effective is that the Israelis tried it out.”

The software powering the devices we use is just as vital for the internet as is the management of the "pipes" that carry our data.