Nick Mediati / PC World:
Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista  —  Though Windows 7 edged out Vista in our lab tests, you may not notice much of a difference.  —  Recommends  —  Improving performance is one of Microsoft’s design goals with Windows 7, and many early reviewers (including ours) […]

The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Magnetometer in next iPhone confirmed?  —  We just got a couple images from one of our Apple ninjas and it appears to show a compass option in one of the debugging menus.  Our source says this is obviously for a built-in magnetometer in the upcoming iPhone hardware revision […]

Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Google: Schmidt Hasn’t Considered Quitting AAPL Board  —  Speaking to reporters at a press briefing ahead of the company’s annual meeting taking place this afternoon, Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt said he hadn’t considered resigning from the Apple (AAPL) board in response …

Percy Cabello / Mozilla Links:
Multi-processor support coming for Firefox  —  Mozilla has started a new project to make Firefox split in several processes at a time: one running the main user interface (chrome), and another or several others running the web content in each tab.  Like Chrome or Internet Explorer 8 …

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google: Looking over shoulder at Wolfram|Alpha?  —  Google’s Sergey Brin, co-founder and president of the search giant, on Thursday delivered the company’s annual “Founders’ Letter” and apparently is keeping a watchful eye on Wolfram|Alpha.  —  If you recall, Wolfram|Alpha …

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Snow Leopard to support native 3G Wireless WAN hardware  —  Building on evidence that Apple is seeking to hire engineers to test new Macs with 3G Wireless WAN support, people familiar with the company’s plans say Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will incorporate new support for native WWAN hardware.

Sergey Brin / The Official Google Blog:
The 2008 Founders’ Letter  —  Every year our founders take turns writing a letter that is included in our annual report.  We originally published the 2008 Founders’ Letter on our Investor Relations site.  Since today is the annual Stockholders’ Meeting at our Mountain View headquarters, we wanted to […]

Ryan Tate / Gawker:
David Simon: Dead-Wrong Dinosaur  —  The creator of the brilliant television series The Wire today asked Congress to legalize monopolistic collusion by newspapers.  Only they can really cover City Hall, he said.  Apparently he hasn’t been there in a while.

Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft tweaks antipiracy tech for Windows 7  —  With Windows 7, Microsoft is making some subtle changes to the ways it tries to thwart piracy.  —  As has been the case for some time, Microsoft’s strategy hinges on requiring a user to electronically verify their copy of the software … […]

Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Internal Palm memo may reveal Pre launch timing  —  We’re prefacing this by saying we’re definitely not 100%, but it looks like Palm could be gearing up for a round of meetings that will lead up to the day we’ve all been waiting for — Palm Pre launch day.  […]