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Blogging live from Spiral Jetty
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 6:26pm EDT
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Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty. -
Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 5:25pm EDT
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The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell. -
Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 3:14pm EDT
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At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon's Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted. -
What soccer team would your company be?
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 3:11pm EDT
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Martin Veitch at CIO.co.uk riffs on how certain football clubs resemble software companies, to good and painful effect. -
iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 1:54pm EDT
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Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way. -
Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 12:43pm EDT
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Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices. -
Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 11:00am EDT
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q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed. -
Week in review: A speedier new Firefox
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 9:00am EDT
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Mozilla's latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green. -
Defending against chemical and biological weapons
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 9:00am EDT
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At the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against "bugs" that could easily kill or sideline them. -
Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 8:54am EDT
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Open source has a role to play in cloud computing, but it's likely not to be the vanquisher of old, proprietary dominance.