I have used VMWare a bunch of times with Linux and found it to be too much of a burden to give up dual booting. I just found out about Parallels Desktop 3.0 and its what I wish I had years ago. Now with OSX ported to run on Intel chips, this is the cherry on top. This would be a real killer deal if Apple shipped this stock instead of Bootcamp. And even in their new Apple Outlet machines. Better late than never!

Highlights:

• Cross OS File & App Integration (part of SmartSelect)
• Shared Folders (Coherence 2.0)
• OpenGL & DirectX Support (run Quake 4 if you want/can)

Om Malik has a very interesting post over at GigaOm regarding the Last.fm acquisition by the old media behemoth - CBS:

 It is a community of like-minded (or same taste) music lovers that continues to grow. To distort a cliché, let a billion radio stations boom. CBS could start making money with the obvious business of selling music, but the real thrill would be if CBS takes this (to use another cliché) wisdom of crowds, and turned it into a tool for programming its on-the-air play lists.

I saw this on SolSie - Lighter Side of Technology. Lindseystomp put up a video of her jamming on her electronic violin with the Black Eyed Peas. Its pretty awesome, this violinist has some serious talent.

This is nothing short of a historic meetup - two icons of the World today (not just the tech world) Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The two met at the D5: All Things Digital - The Wall Street Journal Executive Conference and sat down with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. The conversation is simply engrossing, a must see for everybody!. I have been seeing the full videos over at Gizmodo, but I wanted to keep it here for reference also. Continue reading for all the 7 videos.
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Web Worker Daily talks about a Prentice report which talks about an interesting possibility for the future employee. The quality of life will become a greater aspect of how people approach employment and work. Using latest technologies, tele-commuting to work and working for less hours more productively - 20 hours per week. For a long time, people have been conjecturing about the benefits of working in your pajyamas in a virtual office and just getting things done. But, to put it in perspective of hours and minutes, I find it fascinating to know how HR will deal with possibly more number of workers putting in lesser hours but more productive ones.

On the worker side of things, the reality of living in a combined computing environment will make it harder (?) to draw the line between work and personal. This will mean more control for the average worker and that will necessitate further innovation. Networking, connectivity, data compatibility will be just a small percentage of business opportunities that should open up.