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Defendant Says Dismissal of MySpace Hoax Case Linked to Suicide Was ÃÂProper'
Posted: July 4th, 2009, 12:00am EDT by Linda Deutsch
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LOS ANGELES, July 3 -- A Missouri mother said she never should have been prosecuted for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide.
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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.
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US Court Rejects IBM Appeal in Executive's Move to Dell (PC World)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 5:40pm EDT
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PC World - A U.S. court has rejected an IBM appeal to bar David Johnson, the company's former chief of mergers and acquisitions, from working at rival Dell over concerns regarding trade secrets. -
Michael Jackson sales surge expected to last months (Reuters)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 5:25pm EDT
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Reuters - In the days following Michael Jackson's June 25 death, fans flocked to record stores and digital music outlets to purchase one last memory. And merchants say they expect the Jackson sales surge to last for weeks -- maybe even months.
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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.
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Jackson fans told to stay away as tickets up for grabs (AFP)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 5:14pm EDT
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AFP - Fans heading to Los Angeles for Michael Jackson's memorial extravaganza were urged to stay away on Friday as organizers said tickets for the event would be allocated by an online lottery.
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Ericsson announces broadband contracts in China (AFP)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 4:08pm EDT
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AFP - Swedish mobile phone network supplier Ericsson won contracts to supply broadband Internet to millions of users in China by a deal with three operators there, it said Friday.
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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.
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IPhone 3GS Heats Up, DOJ Takes Aim at Google (PC World)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 2:40pm EDT
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PC World - The iPhone scored quite a few headlines related to overheating problems with the 3GS this week. Depending on whom you believe, those issues are either real, exaggerated, the fault of users or some combination of the three. Otherwise, as warm weather takes hold above the equator and Bostonians contemplate whether it's time to brush up on our ark-building skills (rain, rain go away), we find this week's IT news offerings cover a broad range.
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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.
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Teen Releases First Jailbreak App for iPhone 3GS (NewsFactor)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 12:34pm EDT
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NewsFactor - The first jailbreak application for Apple's new iPhone 3GS has been made available just two weeks after the iPhone debuted. George Hotz, a 19-year-old Google employee originally from New Jersey, created the application. -
SAP Benchmarking Program Begins Tracking First KPIs (PC World)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 12:10pm EDT
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PC World - SAP users have begun measuring the performance of key aspects of their ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems as part of a benchmarking process agreed to with user groups. In April, SAP agreed to delay an increase in the cost of its Enterprise Support service, and to make future increases conditional on meeting certain targets for performance and customer satisfaction. -
China Testing Mac Version of Green Dam Web Filter (NewsFactor)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 11:21am EDT
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NewsFactor - Despite the delay in China's requirement to install Green Dam Web-filtering software on all new PCs, the controversy is not dead. PC makers are including the software with new PCs even though the July 1 deadline has been postponed indefinitely.
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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.
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Firefox 3.5 Can Still Learn From Its Competition (PC World)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 10:45am EDT
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PC World - While Mozilla lights a fire under competing browsers with support of emerging Web standards with Firefox 3.5, it can still improve its performance, reliability, and usability. -
Bluetooth "Big Brother" tracks festival-goers (Reuters)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 9:38am EDT
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Reuters - Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices. -
Ngmoco releases Rolando 2 for iPhone, iPod touch (Macworld.com)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 9:35am EDT
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Macworld.com - Ngmoco has announced the release of Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid, a new game for the iPhone and iPod touch priced at $10. -
Broadband industry group say U.S. rules go too far (Reuters)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 9:21am EDT
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Reuters - U.S. government guidelines to spend $4 billion to expand broadband access to underserved areas across the United States may go beyond current laws, a broadband industry group, said on Thursday.
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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.
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iPhone 3GS Gets Jailbroken, Hack Available Online (PC World)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 8:45am EDT
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PC World - The first jailbreaking application for the iPhone 3GS is now available. The tool, called purplera1n, will only allow the installation of unofficial third-party applications, but will not unlock the iPhone 3GS. -
PC makers offer China Internet filter (AFP)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 7:31am EDT
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AFP - Several PC makers said Friday they were voluntarily including China's controversial Internet filter software in new shipments despite Beijing's decision to postpone making it mandatory.
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You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz (InfoWorld)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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InfoWorld - You win some; you lose some. This week China decided its Web censorship filtering software was not quite ready for prime time, while U.S. courts sentenced phone hackers and file swappers to some crime time. -
US wants privacy in new cyber security system (AP)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 5:31am EDT
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AP - The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections.
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Md. Prisons, Wireless Industry at Odds Over Jamming Inmate Cellphones
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 12:00am EDT by Henri E. Cauvin
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In the war for wireless supremacy, there is Verizon vs. AT&T, the iPhone vs. the BlackBerry. -- And then there's Gary D. Maynard vs. the 23,000 residents of Maryland's state prisons. -- In his bid to snuff out mobile phones in Maryland's two dozen state lockups, Maynard, the state's public safety...
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DHS Cybersecurity Plan Will Involve NSA, Telecoms
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 12:00am EDT by Ellen Nakashima
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The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials.
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U.S. Joins Whistleblower Suit Alleging SAIC Rigged Contract
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 12:00am EDT by Amit R. Paley
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SAIC, one of the Pentagon's largest contractors, conspired with federal officials to rig a $3.2 billion technology contract and tried to cover up the scheme by destroying documents and electronic records, federal prosecutors said in newly unsealed court documents.
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Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 11:56pm EDT
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Firefox 3.5 introduces a new embeddable font feature that can make Web typography much more visually appealing. But type foundries have to play along.
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"Asteroids" lands at Universal (Reuters)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 10:13pm EDT
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Reuters - Universal Pictures has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids." -
Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules (AP)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 9:08pm EDT
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AP - In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.
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Sites that help you lodge complaints
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 6:49pm EDT
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If you've been wronged or you're just not happy with the way you were treated, there are some sites on the Web that will help you get your voice heard. -
Google App Engine misfires
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 6:40pm EDT
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A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Thursday. -
iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 6:26pm EDT
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Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but that's just not true. -
Report: Guilty verdict overturned in MySpace suicide case
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 5:26pm EDT
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Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her. -
Net neutrality gets a boost from the feds
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 5:25pm EDT
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The Obama administration includes the FCC's Net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package. -
DOJ opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 5:10pm EDT
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Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws. -
Apple fixing iPhone SMS security hole
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 5:03pm EDT
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Vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages could be used to track the location of the phone, turn on the microphone, or turn phone into botnet zombie. -
Fisker's good Karma
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 5:03pm EDT
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At a dinner speech recently, Henrik Fisker laid out his plans for Fisker Automotive and its first car, the plug-in hybrid Karma. -
TracFone offers $45 unlimited plan
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 4:21pm EDT
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TracFone's new StraightTalk service delivers 30MB of data plus unlimited calling and messaging for $45 per month. -
AT&T breaks sales records with iPhone 3GS launch
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 4:12pm EDT
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Carrier sells more phones the first day the iPhone 3GS went on sale than it ever has, even on the two previous iPhone launch days, according to an internal memo. -
Hard disk or solid-state? Think again
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 4:00pm EDT
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Although solid-state drives are in vogue, market forces and technical issues are making them a little less appealing than before. -
CNET News Daily Podcast: On building ethical military robots
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 3:45pm EDT
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Robotics engineer Ronald Arkin talks about giving robots a built-in "guilt system" that could make them better at avoiding civilian casualties; Jammie Thomas-Rasset plans to appeal RIAA case; and Waledac spam set to explode over July 4th weekend. -
Microsoft: Bing needs to improve when news breaks
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 3:34pm EDT
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For several minutes following reports that Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital last week, Microsoft's Bing search engine buried news results for searches on his name. -
Lunar mapping satellite snaps first test images
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 3:05pm EDT
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped its first test images, showing the moon's starkly cratered terrain in preparation for the start of mapping operations.
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'BugDay' Planned To Fix Bugs in New Firefox 3.5 (NewsFactor)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 2:40pm EDT
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NewsFactor - Mozilla is scrambling to fix bugs in its just-released Firefox 3.5 browser. Users are posting complaints about problems across the Web.
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Legalized drugs, now open source. Those crazy Dutch!
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 2:35pm EDT
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The Dutch central government reports on its adoption of open-source software, finding significant benefits in its significant movement to open source. -
Google finally sued by makers of Finally Fast
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 2:29pm EDT
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Another lawsuit is pending over advertisers that bid on keywords involving trademarks they don't own, while also alleging Google has unfairly manipulated search results.
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Paisley: 'Hard to ignore' serious themes on new CD (AP)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 11:01am EDT
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AP - As much as he enjoys singing about the double lives of computer geeks ("Online") and amorous country boys ("Ticks"), Brad Paisley says there's too much going on in the world to be too lighthearted on his new album, "American Saturday Night."
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PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China (AP)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 9:08am EDT
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AP - Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.
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Companies pledge more openness about Web tracking (AP)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 4:02am EDT
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AP - Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed. -
Telefonica, France Telecom interested in T-Mobile (AFP)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 4:02am EDT
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AFP - Telefonica has joined Vodafone in considering a bid for T-Mobile UK, while France Telecom is weighing up a possible joint venture with the British mobile operator, the Financial Times said.
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Warning over Michael Jackson email virus (AFP)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 3:36am EDT
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AFP - Computer security firm Sophos issued a warning about an Internet virus transmitted from a mass email claiming to contain secret songs and photos of Michael Jackson.
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Chinese Security Company Shares Huge Malware Database (PC World)
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 2:00am EDT
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PC World - A Chinese company that has created a massive database of malware found on Chinese Web sites opened up the information to other security organizations on Thursday.
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Facebook Activism: Lots of Clicks, but Little Sticks
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 12:00am EDT by Monica Hesse
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Facebook activism, the trendy process by which we do good by clicking often, was in its full glory last week after the death of Iranian student Neda Agha Soltan, killed by gunfire in the streets of Tehran.
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Biden Announces $4 Billion in Grants and Loans in First Round of Funding for Broadband Expansion
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 12:00am EDT by Cecilia Kang
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Vice President Biden yesterday announced guidelines for $4 billion in stimulus funds to expand high-speed Internet access across the nation, jump-starting a program that has been criticized for taking too long to get off the ground.
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Workers in Manassas Make Computers That Power Spacecraft Sent to Moon
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 12:00am EDT by Jennifer Buske
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NASA officials are exploring the moon for the first time in almost a decade, thanks to a computer system manufactured in Manassas.
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Verizon Is Now a 2nd Option in Charles for Internet/TV Service
Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 12:00am EDT by Matt Zapotosky
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Comcast now has competition in Charles County. After reaching an agreement with the county this spring to offer its TV services, Verizon has begun offering its FiOS TV and Internet service to about 8,000 homes and businesses in Waldorf and La Plata. Verizon also agreed to a build-out that will bring...
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China paper says Web filter only a matter of time (Reuters)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 11:41pm EDT
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Reuters - It is only a matter of time before a controversial scheme to install Internet filtering software on all computers begins in China, a state newspaper said on Thursday, after the plan was abruptly delayed this week. -
Smartphone Palooza: 10 Hot Touchscreens Compared (PC World)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
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PC World - Keeping tabs on the latest cell phone models can be a full-time job, especially given the number of cell phones announced by Apple, Palm, Nokia, and HTC (including, most recently, the BlackBerry-like T-Mobile Dash) over the past few months. But thanks to PC World, you don't have to hunt down and compare the various touchscreen smartphones yourself.
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Jammie Thomas' lawyer says she will appeal
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
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Joe Sibley, one of Thomas-Rasset's two attorneys said that will appeal and argue the $1.9 damages she was ordered to pay are unconstitutional. -
Google Toolbar for IE speaks your language
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 8:51pm EDT
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Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer introduces revamped translation tools, giving users one-click powers of conversion over many languages. -
Blizzard prepares for 'cataclysm'
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 7:39pm EDT
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A trio of Blizzard trademark applications filed Friday cover various uses of the word "cataclysm." A cataclysm could fit within key Blizzard franchises like Diablo or Warcraft, but it could also be tied up with a fresh property.
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Mac News Briefs: Omni Group releases OmniGraphSketcher (Macworld.com)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 7:37pm EDT
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Macworld.com - The Omni GroupâÂÂs OmniGraphSketcher is a new tool for creating graphs.
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Bing brings out the tweets
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 7:26pm EDT
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Microsoft is adding Twitter feeds of a select group of prominent users to Bing search results for those individuals, embracing the microblogging service more directly than rivals.
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YouTube doubles video file size to 2G (AFP)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 6:51pm EDT
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AFP - Video-sharing site YouTube announced on Wednesday that it was doubling the size limit for uploads to its website to allow users to post more high-definition (HD) video.
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Google Search optimized for a mess of phones
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 6:16pm EDT
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On Wednesday, Google rolled out optimized search results for feature phones--essentially any handset that is not a smartphone or a PDA.
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Settlement to require animal labs to post data (AP)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 6:02pm EDT
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AP - Animal research facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department. -
MySpace, Web servers not liable for assaults: court (Reuters)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 5:51pm EDT
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Reuters - Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion filed late on Tuesday.
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Blizzard chooses cloud over LAN for new game
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 5:40pm EDT
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Game developer Blizzard Entertainment has decided that cloud-based services are more important than LAN gaming. It's a good decision. -
Yahoo's Delicious proves Chrome extensions real
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 5:17pm EDT
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Chrome's extensions framework has matured enough for Yahoo to release an alpha version of an add-on to use its social-bookmarking service.
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Facebook plans to simplify privacy settings (AP)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 5:14pm EDT
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AP - Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site. -
Jackson will sets family trust, funeral undecided (Reuters)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 5:08pm EDT
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Reuters - Lawyers for Michael Jackson filed the pop star's 2002 will in court on Wednesday that puts his multimillion-dollar estate in a family trust for his three children and his mother, but were denied a bid to take immediate control of his music fortune.
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EU Slashes Mobile-Phone Roaming Rates (NewsFactor)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 4:40pm EDT
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NewsFactor - The European Union has dramatically slashed the rates that wireless carriers can charge consumers roaming across the EU's member states.
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As Mozilla 'upgrades the Web,' Microsoft must upgrade its pace
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 4:35pm EDT
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Microsoft is falling behind in the browser innovation race as Firefox rolls out version 3.5 and targets a host of new capabilities. -
Successful fueling test sets stage for shuttle launch
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 4:30pm EDT
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A repaired hydrogen vent line attached to the shuttle Endeavour's external tank worked normally during a fueling test, clearing the way for a July 11 launch try.
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Joost exits consumer online video business (AP)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 4:24pm EDT
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AP - Struggling online video startup Joost, begun with much fanfare in 2007 by the same people behind Skype and Kazaa, is restructuring its business after discovering that it can't survive on advertising to fund its operations.
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CNET News Daily Podcast: The inner workings of Google's Postini
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 4:23pm EDT
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Elinor Mills talks about how Google's e-mail security service unit handles as many as 3 billion message each day; Usenet.com ruling, a 'whittling down' of Betamax defense; and Bing's first month produces small share gain for Microsoft.
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Meet the cast of 11th `Big Brother' (AP)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 3:49pm EDT
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AP - Chima Simone couldn't think of a better place to spend the recession than the "Big Brother" house.
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As industry recovers, Mac growth beating PCs
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 3:48pm EDT
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Apple's Mac shipments were up 25 percent in May, compared to only 1 percent growth for the rest of the PC industry, according to an analyst report. -
ATM vendor gets security talk pulled from conferences
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 3:30pm EDT
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Juniper Networks cancels researcher's talk at Black Hat and Defcon about ATM insecurities after a vendor complains.
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Satellite for US cell phone service launched (AP)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 2:52pm EDT
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AP - The world's largest commercial satellite was launched into space Wednesday, with a mission to provide phone service to cellular "dead zones" in North America.
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Opera widgets for the math and science whiz
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 2:21pm EDT
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The Opera browser is filled with some neat widgets. And some of the best of those widgets are designed specifically for those who love math and science. -
Bing's first month produces small share gain
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 2:10pm EDT
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New data has Microsoft's Bing search engine showing a small rise in market share during the month of June, as the novelty wears off but interest remains. -
Usenet.com ruling, a 'whittling down' of Betamax defense
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 2:06pm EDT
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Judge's ruling against Usenet.com, its lawyer says, undercuts classic immunity against liability in copyright cases. The RIAA disagrees. -
New sites for gadget nuts: Gdgt and Retrevo
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
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One of the services is for gadget fanatics; the other is for skittish buyers. Both work. If you're a gearhead, try Gdgt for fun and community, but don't skip Retrevo when you're looking to make a purchase.
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First Look: Firefox 3.5 (Macworld.com)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 1:45pm EDT
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Macworld.com - Hot on the heels of the release of Safari 4 comes the final version of Mozillaâs Firefox 3.5. Originally slated to be a â.1â increment to Firefox 3, the number of improvements slated for this release earned it a bump to a full â.5â upgrade. When compared to the changes from Safari 3 to Safari 4, however, it seems Mozilla could just have easily named this one Firefox 4, as there are a multitude of new and improved features. -
Report: Apple seeding iPhone 3.1 beta (Macworld.com)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 1:37pm EDT
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Macworld.com - With iPhone 3.0 under Apple's belt, you might find yourself wondering where the company will go next. The answer might surprise you: iPhone 3.1. That's rightâdidnât see that coming, did you?
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Facebook cleans up its privacy controls
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 1:34pm EDT
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Will transition users to new settings through use of opt-in tool as it works to make more profile content public. Also, as expected, it does away with regional networks.
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Red Hat Program Certifies Partners to Put Linux on Cloud (PC World)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 1:30pm EDT
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PC World - Red Hat has launched a new partner program to make sure its enterprise Linux and JBoss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructure, and to guarantee that Red Hat-based applications will run reliably and safely in the cloud.
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Analyst: Thin laptops have design issues
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 1:05pm EDT
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Some PC makers are hitting snags--such as cracking plastic--as they try to bring out ultra-thin laptops based on Intel's latest low-power chips.
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Google: Spammers Regroup After ISP Takedowns (PC World)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 12:20pm EDT
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PC World - Spammers are pumping out an increasing number of garbage messages as they regain their capacity to send spam through hacked PCs, according to the latest statistics released by Google on Wednesday.
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EC auditors criticize Galileo overruns
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 12:18pm EDT
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The project to develop a European civilian rival to the U.S. military's GPS system was hampered by poor management, the European Court of Auditors has found. -
Gmail labels get higher placement, drag-and-drop
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
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Google is bowing to the notion that some people use Gmail's labels like traditional e-mail folders, and will now let them to drag messages "into" labels while organizing mail. -
Greenpeace guide frowns on HP, still loves Nokia
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 11:45am EDT
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The environmental group wags its finger at electronics makers for backtracking on their commitment to eliminate certain chemicals from their products. -
GPL declines as open source moves to the Web
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 11:36am EDT
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The 5 percent drop in General Public License adoption likely reflects a shift in perception as to the value of open-source licensing.
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Review: New guide gives Twitterific advice (AP)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 11:24am EDT
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AP - Sometimes Twitter can make newcomers feel like twits because the online messaging service isn't as simple as it sounds.
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Alice.com grasps the woes of buying toilet paper (AP)
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 11:18am EDT
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AP - If shopping for household essentials like toilet paper and soap isn't your favorite activity, a new Web site might eliminate the task while saving you cash.