In a move destined to crush the festive spirit, retailer Amazon has applied for a patent on a system that vets deliveries from people you don’t trust—giving you the option to reject them and have the cash instead.
Netbooks were supposed to be this great inroad for Linux development, but it turns out that the XP side of the netbook business is doing a lot better in the area of customer satisfaction: MSI today told Laptop that, according to internal studies, “The return rate is at least four times higher for Linux netbooks than Windows XP netbooks.”
