New Software (and Bosses) at AOL. Many America Online veterans are itching to return the Internet service to its old glory, focussing on the user rather than the advertiser. By Saul Hansell. [New York Times: Technology]

A Decision on Digital Television. Federal Communications Commission is set to decide this week on a regulation that would require manufacturers to include digital tuners in all television sets by 2006. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]

Getting From Here to There . . .. America Online plans to introduce the 8.0 version of its software in October. Here are some of the features it hopes will stem defections by its members. [New York Times: Technology]

Sun to debut blade servers. The company later this month will introduce its first super-thin “blade” products and its first computers running the Linux operating system. [CNET News.com]

Analyst: Apple to lie down with Intel. Will the Mac maker pick up Intel’s chips? Signs point to yes, says Andrew Neff, the analyst who foresaw the HP-Compaq merger. He also predicts Sun will ally with Dell. [CNET News.com]

Hiptop handheld still on hold. Those waiting to take possession of Danger’s combination of cell phone and Web-browsing device will have to wait just a little bit longer. [CNET News.com]

This morning I went to the breakfast series talk about google and bitpipe. The google stuff I think I knew much of, but I had not known how far of a reach bitpipe has. For thoose who don’t know, this is about the buissness of placing links on different people’s sites. The sttrangest thing for me to get my mind wrapped around is how my web traffic was considered inventory to companies when it comes to selling links.

Salon.com Life | Iran lifts veils in school rules [lnk.to]
… the Education Ministry is allowing girls to attend all-female schools in Tehran without headscarves — a move religious hard-liners criticized as “encouraging nudity.” …

Quantum signs Belluzzo as CEO. Where did the start-up idea go? [The Register]

XP means no point to Intel Anypoint. Intel scraps consumer wireless line [The Register]