Did San Francisco undermine its own case in the Terry Childs matter? InfoWorld’s Paul Venezia continues to raise interesting questions about the city’s shaky case against its jailed network admin. Big Blue plans to buy Ilog for $340 million and combine the French company’s business rules management systems with its own business process management and business optimization tools. Now that you’ve seen InfoWorld’s ideas for the perfect laptop, we want to hear yours. The best entry wins an iPod Touch! A new search engine called Cuil (pronounced “cool”) aims to topple Google by indexing more Web pages than the search giant and by providing results organized by ideas with complete privacy for users.The $130 Impulse NPX-9000 laptop — being touted as “the world’s cheapest laptop” — is not a bad deal if you can bear some hardware limitations. But there’s a caveat — it has to bought in bulk, in units of 100. Technology Industry