Featured posts from the CNET Blog Network--July 13

Italian communists choose Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (on The Open Road)
The headline is a bit of a joke, but the news is serious: Novell just announced Europe's largest rollout of Linux desktops with the Italian Parliament.

What happens when founding CEOs go bad (on Train Wreck)
Executives often-times fail to recognize strategic threats or are not able to overcome them in time, i.e. before something bad happens that impacts operating results.

The iPhone's black screen of death (on 30 days with the Apple iPhone)
Everything stops working. The time bar at top is there, but the rest of the screen is black. No touching. No prodding of the Home key. No pressing of the upper right key will get the thing working again.

Warner settles with Imeem (on Digital Noise: Music and Tech)
Could this be the model that finally causes legal content-sharing sites to take off? It's not enough for the record industry to build yet another file-sharing network, then wait for customers to show up.

Online safety needs to go beyond 'Don't talk to strangers' on (parent . thesis)
As a previous generation of children was given the blanket advice "Don't talk to strangers," today's kids are told "never give out your personal information online."