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Who's next? So it looks like it won't be Steve Jobs, but who's going to run Apple? Jobs himself has been trying to persuade Eastman Kodak Chief Executive George Fisher to take the job. No go so far. But Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says he'll join Apple's board.

If you could get your hands on these boxes: The U.S. government is going to let five universities use the world's fastest computers to do a bit of research. The computers, reputedly 20 times faster than anything the colleges now use, have been used for nuclear weapons research.

Ratings today, censorship tomorrow: Whether or not you agree with that sentiment, you'll want to consider J.D. Lasica's take on the danger of Net ratings, even those created with the best of intentions.

Whose default is it: A survey of the top 20 U.S. ISPs shows that many bundle Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and the top three specify it as the default browser. Some newbies may not even realize they have other options. The sponsor of the survey is a consumer group NetAction, which is known as an anti-Microsoft gadfly -- which may or may not affect your view of its findings.

Praying for customers: An ISP with an angle is Catholic Telecom which is making an unabashed pitch for the nation's 60 million Roman Catholics to sign up with its service.

Is the web good business? Sites have learned a few lessons but the path to success is still far from clear.

Quiet news day, at least so far, so we'll end here. See you Monday.

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A man throws his old PC into a heap of electronic scrap in downtown Munich Friday as part of a PC recycling effort.

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