Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google’s Services Converge in the New iGoogle  —  Is this Google Reader?  It’s actually an iGoogle feed in canvas view, which happens to borrow Google Reader’s interface.  If you click on the drop-down, you can access all your Google Reader subscriptions.  —  Is this Gmail?

Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
To Save Gas, Shoppers Stay Home and Click  —  To go shopping these days, more Americans are trading in their car keys for a keyboard.  —  Online shopping is gaining at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a […]

David F. Gallagher / Bits:
There’s Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones  —  I was walking by the lengthy iPhone line outside the Apple Store in Soho on Sunday when I heard someone call out: “Turn in your old iPhone and get the new one free!”  —  I turned around and saw a bearded […]

Dave Thomas / PragDave:
If you work for Apple, we need your help…  So, it’s been a week.  The iPhone 3G was released, and the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade shipped.  We can now all write applications that will run on what is undeniably a cool platform.  You can even download the iPhone SDK for free.  […]

Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Users reporting failed Windows and Office validations (Updated)  —  According to Microsoft, the issue is not related to OGA or WGA, but strictly to offline activation, which is now available again.  Microsoft sent Ars the following statement in an e-mail:

Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Users reporting failed Microsoft WGA and OGA activations (Updated)  —  A few of our readers have written in to report problems trying to activate copies of Microsoft Office 2003.  One user has been receiving a message telling him that the service is temporarily down since Thursday morning.

Roger Ehrenberg / Information Arbitrage:
Monitor110: A Post Mortem  —  Turning Failure into Learning  —  Writing a post mortem is hard, particularly when the result is failure: a failed deal; a failed investment; a failed concept.  That said, without a post mortem, without deep reflection, honesty and introspection, how can we get better and do […]

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
With Exits Barred, VCs Keep Investments Flat  —  If you believe the venture capitalists on Friday’s conference call about the latest MoneyTree Survey results, which covers venture investing in the second quarter, now is the best time to contact them with your ideas.

InfoWorld:
Why San Francisco’s network admin went rogue  —  Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering.  He remains in jail, held on $5 million bail.