State Department worker gets probation for passport snooping
A former U.S. Department of State employee has been sentenced to 12 months of probation and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service for illegally accessing the computer files related to hundreds of confidential passport applications, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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Report: Samsung readies Google phone
Samsung will roll out a mobile phone based on the Google Android operating system by the second quarter of 2009, according to a report from Korean news agency ETNews.
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Apple confirms Mac update hangs, suggests workaround
Apple has acknowledged that some users have had problems updating their Macs to the newest version of Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5.6.
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NYSE Euronext, the holding company for the New York Stock Exchange, has adopted data warehousing appliances from Greenplum and Netezza to speed up its analysis of internal business and performance data.
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New York proposes taxing iTunes, other downloads
The budget plan unveiled this week by New York Gov. David Patterson would slap a sales tax on all downloaded digital content, including iTunes tracks.
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Google's YouTube has rolled out a high-definition option for video and created new landing pages to make it easier to find popular video categories.
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The success of open source software is now being driven by its rapid commercialization by the likes of IBM and Microsoft, and not simply its appeal to evangelistic developers, a new report has suggested.
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Along with its biggest patch release in five years, Microsoft warned on Tuesday of another potentially dangerous vulnerability in its software.
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