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Reuters – A key U.S. lawmaker expressed support on Thursday for a proposal by communications regulators to give auction proceeds to broadcasters as an incentive to give up some airwaves highly sought by wireless broadband providers. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Belkin Adds Apps To Wi-Fi Router Lineup (PC World)
March 25th, 2010 
Vince PC World – When is a wireless router not just a wireless router? Belkin’s answer: When it’s a total pain. That’s why it introduced four new 802.11n Wi-Fi routers, ranging from $50 to $130, that come with a set of applications designed to help you use your wireless network for backing up, playing music and movies, setting up file transfers, and speeding up important Internet traffic without having to muck around in arcane menus View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Moderates forced out of top Islam Web site (AP)
March 25th, 2010 Vince AP – The Qatari government has forced out the moderate leadership of a popular Islamic Web site and plans to reshape it into a more religiously conservative outlet, former employees of the site said Thursday. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Alleged Twitter Hacker Arrested (PC World)
March 25th, 2010 Vince PC World – French police in cooperation with the FBI earlier this week arrested a 25 year-old man believed to be responsible for stealing corporate documents from Twitter in 2009. The police did not reveal the suspect’s name, but confirmed the man operated online under the pseudonym “Hacker Croll,” according to Agence France Presse. Croll gained notoriety in 2009 after he successfully hacked into the Twitter accounts of several users including several high profile celebrities as well as gaining access to Twitter’s internal corporate documents stored in a Google Apps account. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
How the butterfly botnet was broken
March 25th, 2010 Vince A joint operation by researchers from Canadian security firm Defense Intelligence and Spain’s PandaLabs led to the arrest of three men in Spain earlier this month in connection with the Mariposa botnet. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK View full post on News items | ZDNet
US newspaper ad revenue down 27% in 2009: NAA (AFP)
March 25th, 2010 Vince 
AFP – US newspaper advertising revenue plunged more than 27 percent last year, with both print and online registering double-digit declines, the Newspaper Association of America said.
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Study: Businesses start to embrace Windows 7
March 25th, 2010 Vince A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corporations by the end of the year. by Ina Fried CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet
Suspected Twitter infiltrator: ‘I’m a nice hacker’ (AP)
March 25th, 2010 Vince AP – He’s unemployed and isn’t much of a computer expert. The Frenchman accused of infiltrating Twitter and peeping at the accounts of President Barack Obama and singers Britney Spears and Lily Allen says he wanted to reveal just how vulnerable online data systems are to break-ins — and he says he didn’t mean any harm. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
3D glasses: One for each set
March 25th, 2010 Vince With the coming of 3D television comes the invasion of 3D glasses. The problem is that there are no standards so they will work only with the brand of TV with which they’re shipped. by Erica Ogg CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet
Summary Box: AP test offers peek at China filters (AP)
March 25th, 2010 Vince AP – THE TEST: Associated Press reporters in Beijing and Hong Kong compared searches and other features using the Hong Kong-based Google site that mainland China and the semiautonomous territory now share. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Social media better than sex?
March 25th, 2010 Vince It’s not surprising that so many people rely on social media, for both work and play, every day – a statistic highlighted in the latest Retrevo Gadgetology Report on social-media usage. by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet
AP test of Google offers peek at China Net filters (AP)
March 25th, 2010 Vince AP – Type “Falun Gong” in Chinese into Google’s search engine from Beijing, and the Web browser suddenly becomes unresponsive for about a minute. Make the same search from Hong Kong, and you’ll get plenty of links to the spiritual movement banned by the Chinese government. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Beware the new Facebook password reset scam
March 25th, 2010 Vince If you get an e-mail that appears to be from Facebook saying the company reset your password and urging you to open an attachment, it is a scam. Repeat, it is a scam. by Elinor Mills CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet
US Senate panel clears plan for tighter cybersecurity (AFP)
March 25th, 2010 Vince 
AFP – A US Senate committee on Wednesday approved a bill to try to tighten cybersecurity to better protect US government agencies and businesses from Internet threats.
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LHC reaches highest power levels – so far
March 25th, 2010 Vince The Large Hadron Collider has reached its highest power so far, taking Cern closer to its goal of using the particle accelerator to conduct experiments that will discover new physics. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK View full post on News items | ZDNet
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