In a big win for a little Wi-Fi startup called Fon, Time Warner Cable will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hot spots, a practice shunned by most United States internet service providers (ISPs). Fon has forged similar agreements with ISPs across Europe.

Watching users fumble and nearly drop an early version of the FlipStart compact PC practically gave Robin Budd a heart attack. The culprit was the three-key sequence, Control-Alt-Delete, required to log off or reboot a Windows PC. When the shrunken-down laptop goes on sale later this month, early adopters might get a kick out of FlipStart’s solution.

Microsoft is taking aim at Google’s rival book-scanning project, saying the search company ”systematically violates copyright”. In prepared remarks he is scheduled to deliver on Tuesday to a publishing industry group, a Microsoft lawyer also said Google is cutting into the profits of authors and publishers.