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The Queue: Watch it at work!

Could the end of the next-gen optical format war be on the horizon? While you wait for the shakedown, why not tune in some ambient color for your TV? Plus, organizing meetups with your 700+ Facebook friends, 800 IM contacts and your five real friends isn't an easy task, and we found one service that aims to annoy everyone equally. Lastly, we send Mark the intern out into the streets to see if New Yorkers are scared their workplace computer habits could get them fired. That and more, on today's episode of The Queue.

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Open-source vs. proprietary software bugs: Which get squashed fastest?

CIO magazine reports something that many of us take for granted, but which little data has previously been available to support:

The open-source development process is much, much faster at fixing bugs than the proprietary-software development process. Days faster, in fact.

CIO's Esther Schindler reports:… Read more

Analysts: 1 Billion PCs in use by end of 2008

It's taken 27 years to reach 1 billion PCs in use, and market researchers say it will take only five to reach the next billion.

Forrester Research is set to release a report Monday titled, "Worldwide PC Adoption Forecast to 2015," saying that many of those next billion will be used by first-time PC users in emerging nations like Brazil, Russia, India and China. At least 775 million new PCs will be in use in those countries by 2015, according to Forrester.

Not only is access to computers beneficial to those users, it also will represent a … Read more