Open source: Novell has upgraded Mono to make porting .Net apps to Linux desktops easier. Mono 1.2 now supports Windows Forms, the GUI APIs in .Net and applications written in C# 2.0. And it’s available as a free download. Columnists’ corner: “This is the best New Economy, Web 2.0 Internet move I’ve seen Microsoft make in a long time,” begins Oliver Rist in Office Live a smart move. “Until I saw Office Live, I thought that all of Microsoft’s Web services efforts had a serious ‘We’re-chasing-Google’ flavor to them.” Not so anymore. Best of the blogs: A convenient truth (at least for Big Blue) Matt Asay reveals is that IBM, not Al Gore, invented the Internet and could tax you more heavily. “IBM is basically suing Amazon for even thinking the word ‘Internet.’ It appears that IBM has patents on such things as web-based advertising, website navigation, and other things that every website on the planet uses without IBM collecting a dime,” Asay reports. “Amazing, the cheekiness of it all.” The news beat: Google’s filings with the SEC reveal that the search engine may face a copyright infringement suit relating to its video-sharing service, as well as Google News and Book Search. Gartner predicts that consumers will lose $2.8 billion to phishing scams in 2006 alone. And AOL’s CEO says it wanted to buy YouTube, but Google was the only company that could pull together the offer. Technology Industry