Apple's iPad: Computing's next leap forward
The iPhone was a radical reinvention of the phone as an internet device. The iPad is a reinvention of computing in general, says columnist Michael DeAgonia.
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FBI: Cyberfraud losses doubled in 2009
Last year was a tough one for most businesses, but for cybercriminals it was one of the best yet.
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Inside net neutrality with FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell
Billions of dollars are at stake in the FCC's net neutrality rule making, which could mandate rules for broadband Internet access over wireless and wireline networks.
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Troyak takedown, security blues, ICANN meets
The Troyak ISP, which has been linked to the Zeus botnet, was briefly taken down this week. The takedown occurred on the heels of the RSA Conference last week, where there was much talk about the "cat-and-mouse" game of trying to squelch cybercrime. Otherwise, things got a little testy at the ICANN meeting in Nairobi, and iPad pre-orders got rolling. Oh, and the Internet was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Seriously.
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FCC's national broadband plan: What's in it?
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to release a national broadband plan next week that will lay out an ambitious set of goals for broadband deployment and adoption.
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Twitter wants to know where you are
Twitter on has turned on its new geolocation feature that allows you to tell the Twitterverse where you are when you tweet.
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Promising prospect: Quiet Read
Back in early 2005, I covered URLwell, a clever menu-bar program that made it easy to store URLs you want to check out at a later time. Unfortunately, URLwell was last updated less than a month after I wrote that review, but I recently discovered a candidate for replacement: Quiet Read, which adds a few useful features of its own.
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Mozilla pitches Firefox 3.6 upgrade offer to users
Mozilla has begun offering Firefox 3.6 to users running older versions of the open-source browser.
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Intel, AMD six-core chips mark an evolution for the desktop
The unveiling of six-core desktop processors by AMD and Intel mark a step in the evolution of chip technology, not a revolutionary move, mostly due to the lack of software that can take advantage of the advances.
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Anticipation grows as Apple takes orders for iPad
Apple started taking orders for the iPad tablet Friday, with early adopters rushing to order one of the most hotly anticipated products in recent memory.
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