Today in SMB Tech; 3/14

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Mar 14, 20072 mins

* Want Linux? Tell Dell. Seems Dell is taking user requests about Linux seriously and querying users to see if it really is a viable move. If you want to let them know how you feel, take the survey here. (Source: InfoWorld) *Samsung boosts mobile phone storage to 8GB. Pretty much says it all: big memory boost. Though the article says this means your phone could store over 2000 songs. Then again, there's no compa

* Want Linux? Tell Dell. Seems Dell is taking user requests about Linux seriously and querying users to see if it really is a viable move. If you want to let them know how you feel, take the survey here. (Source: InfoWorld)

*Samsung boosts mobile phone storage to 8GB. Pretty much says it all: big memory boost. Though the article says this means your phone could store over 2000 songs. Then again, there’s no comparable improvement in battery technology, so you still can’t play more than 45 minutes worth of music before your phone hangs up on you. (Source: PC World)

*Microsoft announces winner of Ultimate Challenge. In case you missed it, Ultimate Challenge was Microsoft’s challenge to small biz entrepreneurs to come up with the best/coolest small biz technology idea. The winner is the Mayhem Poets who now get $100K towards starting their combination social site and performance art venue. (Source: Microsoft)

* Red Hat looking to lead Linux again. Red Hat is officially intro-ing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. It’s been about two years since Red Hat really did anything with RHEL, so it’ll be a welcome upgrade. And, one worth checking into for SMBs interested in virtualization–though Red Hat is adding license limitations here that will curtail how many VMs a basic RHEL5 machine can run. Not sure how that’s going to go over in the Penguin community. (Source: CNET)