Mike Elgan: How Buzz, Facebook and Twitter create 'social insecurity'
Will using Google Buzz raise your insurance premiums? Welcome to the weird new world of zero privacy.
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Chuck Norris botnet karate-chops routers hard
If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, you may be in for an unwanted visit from Chuck Norris -- the Chuck Norris botnet, that is.
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Google closes On2 acquisition for $124.6M
Google has finished its acquisition of video-compression-technology vendor On2 Technologies, boosting its efforts in online video.
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Cisco-HP split may not be too painful for customers
Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard probably won't force their mutual customers to take sides after the end of their partnership, though the vendors are deadly serious about competing against one another, analysts said on Friday.
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ACTA leak, MS-Yahoo search, Kneber botnet
The week opened with the busy Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and ended with the leak of part of a document related to secret negotiations to craft an anticounterfeiting trade agreement. In between, Microsoft and Yahoo got the go-ahead on their search deal, Google got the OK to enter the energy business and a massive botnet was revealed. There was enough unsavory news to lead us to end the week contemplating bobsledding and our dream home office, because sometimes we all just need a little break.
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Spying defies belief
Gibbs relates the tale of a school district that decided the spying on students through their Web cams was OK.
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Intel wants to put Moorestown chips into tablets
Intel is going after the tablet market for its low-power processors, including an upcoming Atom processor designed for mobile phones, the company said.
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nCircle prioritizes Microsoft, Adobe, Apple patches for users
Security auditing vendor nCircle Network today announced free priority ratings for patches coming from Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and others, offering IT managers and end users help in deciding what should be fixed first.
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Image gallery: Outlook Social Connector a worthwhile add-on
Microsoft's new add-on lets you access LinkedIn (and, in future, other social networks) straight from your Outlook app.
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Review: Outlook Social Connector a worthwhile add-on
Microsoft's new add-on lets you access LinkedIn (and, in future, other social networks) straight from your Outlook app.
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