Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Survey: One-fifth of Americans have never used e-mail  —  The digital divide is apparently alive and well.  —  About 20 percent of all U.S. heads-of-household have never sent an e-mail, and about 20 million households, or 18 percent, are without Internet access, according to a study released earlier this week.

Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Bill’s Gold Watch  —  Bill Gates is sure taking his sweet time retiring.  While he is busy hyping yet another Microsoft research project to the CEO Summit, Google has vaulted several huge steps ahead in the cloud infrastructure battle with Friend Connect.  Mike Arrington’s audience …

Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Cell phone, VoIP technologies lack security, experts say  —  PASADENA, Calif. — Be careful what you say over that mobile phone or VoIP system.  —  The most widely used mobile phone standard, GSM, is so insecure that it is easy to track peoples’ whereabouts and with some effort even listen […]

Randall Stross / New York Times:
The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits  —  MATHEMATICIANS have long tried, and failed, to solve the Riemann Hypothesis, a stubbornly unyielding math problem.  Good luck to whoever tries to figure it out.  For the first correct proof, a $1 million prize will be awarded by the Clay […]

Google Code Blog:
How Google Friend Connect Works  —  We figured you might be tracking the conversations about Google Friend Connect and Facebook.  We want to help you understand a bit more about how it works on the Friend Connect side with respect to users’ information.  —  People find the relationships they’ve built …

Percy Cabello / Mozilla Links:
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is here  —  On schedule, according to the latest estimate, Mozilla has released the first Firefox 3 release candidate.  For Mozilla it means what says in the label: unless there is some major bug reported for this release, the “release candidate” …

Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Dear Web Applications: Where Are My Files?  —  What’s wrong with the “friends connection” programs announced by Facebook, MySpace, and Google?  Many people have been trying to explain the principle of data portability as if it were a new concept, but it’s actually not.  It’s been on our PCs for […]

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook’s Friends Data Has Already Left the Barn  —  How much are your friends worth?  That is the question behind the big debate going on around social networks and data portability.  In the last ten days, Facebook, Google, and MySpace have all announced ways to let people access their data … […]