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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_hi_te/us_cyber_einstein"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.29f81ae6c1ba4cb18e91069b0c27c970.portugal_us_xaf106.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=I9l6RQXJ6CzWj._AWZBevQ--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks to journalists after signing an agreement with the Portuguese government on the fight against crime and terrorism, Tuesday, June 30 2009, at the Necessidades Palace, the Portuguese foreign ministry, in Lisbon. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> |
Jul 03, 2009 09:31:14 GMT
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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. |
Jul 03, 2009 01:08:55 GMT
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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. |
Jul 02, 2009 11:43:36 GMT
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Jul 02, 2009 13:08:24 GMT
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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. |
Jul 01, 2009 21:14:15 GMT
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Jul 01, 2009 10:27:20 GMT
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/en_afp/entertainmentusmusicjackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246615510408-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=sjThU_FnXgvocQIy4W4ZTg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Michael Jackson's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard. Jackson's family has announced a free public memorial service for the tragic pop icon in Los Angeles, as a battle looms with his ex-wife who wants custody of their two children.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> |
Jul 03, 2009 21:14:16 GMT
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/tc_afp/swedenchinatelecomequipcompanyericsson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246651673645-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=105&q=85&sig=_EbuQggP9GDJBsZDAlmWLA--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="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.(Ericsson/File)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> |
Jul 03, 2009 20:08:40 GMT
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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. |
Jul 03, 2009 18:59:45 GMT
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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. |
Jul 03, 2009 21:25:45 GMT
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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." |
Jul 03, 2009 02:13:20 GMT
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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. |
Jul 03, 2009 18:40:11 GMT
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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. |
Jul 03, 2009 15:21:38 GMT
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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. |
Jul 03, 2009 16:10:11 GMT
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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. |
Jul 03, 2009 10:00:00 GMT
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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. |
Jul 03, 2009 14:45:00 GMT
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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. |
Jul 03, 2009 16:34:49 GMT
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