In today's daily news podcast, Intel launches the newest Itanium with a new price-performance pitch; Microsoft teams up with two new partners, Nortel and XenSource; summer IT job hunting is looking up; spyware makers are reportedly delivering Vonage ads; hackers turn to open-source models; and the Senate science leader is ridiculed for remarks about the Internet. The Editor's Note mulls whether a national student tracking program should get a passing grade.

Your host today is Patricia Keefe.