Tease: Windows 7 rumors, Microsoft's out of band patch, the return of Neelie Kroes... - Leo Laporte

Is Apple considering replacing Google search on the iPhone with Bing? Business Week says so http://www.businessweek.com/technol... - Leo Laporte

Microsoft to limit IP address retention in Bing search results to 6 months From 18 months; a response to EU privacy concerns Calls for Google, Yahoo! to do the same Related: Bing Maps is out of beta - Leo Laporte

IE patch coming early "Out of band" in Microsoft-speak Will address vulnerability that helped in Google attack from China IE 6 users are screwed Safer with IE 8, which can be configured to mitigate this vulnerability Key point: Risk is actually very low; German and French governments have overreacted - Leo Laporte

Windows Mobile 7 rumors start heating up Unveiling in Barcelona next month More info at MIX'10 (Las Vegas) in March Hopefully will ship with new devices in 2010 Rumors: Separate Business and Media editions - Leo Laporte

Apple finally support Windows 7 in Boot Camp Allows Mac users to dual boot with Microsoft's latest OS using native drivers Previously worked OK with Vista drivers According to NPD http://brainstormtech.blogs.fo... almost 85 percent of Mac users have Windows on their machines too - Leo Laporte

Apple Tablet event next week ... Or is it really an iPhone 4.0 Platform event? I think the iPhone 4.0 platform is really the big deal this year from Apple Could be one platform to drive iPods, iPhones, and Tablets/portable Macs - Leo Laporte

Audible pick of the week: The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker http://www.audible.com/adbl... First book in the Spenser series. "Boston's answer to James Bond." Parker passed away this week. Also of interest, the Jesse Stone series, starting with "Night Passage," and the western, "Appaloosa." (Both are on Audible.) - Leo Laporte

Tip of the week: Sync all of your address books with the cloud Soocial - one hassle-free address book - Your phone, your computer and web applications will have the same address book. Automatic daily backups of your contacts, so you'll be prepared when disaster strikes. http://www.soocial.com/ Thanks to Rob Truman for the tip - Leo Laporte

Software pick of the week: Firefox 3.6 New: Personas, add-on update auto-checking, performance improvements, more HTML 5 http://www.mozilla.com/ - Leo Laporte