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The federal government announced on September 15 that it will adopt cloud computing to cut costs and reduce the environmental impact of its...
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Report Links Cellphones to Brain Tumors
A group known as the International EMF Collaborative has released a report stating that consistent cellphone use significantly increases the risk of brain...
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Many Filings on Google Books Settlement
The time has expired for interested parties to file either for or against Google’s proposed settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association...
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China Orders Use of Real Names Online
Communist China in August secretly ordered certain Chinese news websites to require new users to log on using their real names and identification...
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MIcrosoft Gets Reprieve on Word Ban
Microsoft has obtained a stay against a court injunction that would have prevented the company from selling its Microsoft Word software until an...
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Journalism 101: Buy an iPhone
The New York Times reported Monday that a news portal website in San Francisco is hoping the iPhone-equipped, tech-savvy generation will speed the...
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Bill Would Give President Internet Control
CNET News reported on August 28 that it had obtained a draft copy of a Senate bill (S. 773) that would “permit the...
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Broadband Initiative Stimulates Interest
The Obama Administration, under the rubric of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, poured a few more letters in the giant...
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State Department Passport Snooping & RFID
A sixth U.S. State Department employee or contractor has pleaded guilty to illegally looking at electronic passport files, the U.S. Department of Justice...
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Microsoft, Yahoo Oppose Google Books
Microsoft and Yahoo are joining a coalition to oppose Google’s creation of what could become the largest virtual library the world has ever...
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Microsoft Appeals Ban on MS Word
Microsoft on August 18 filed an appeal to a judge’s ruling that the company’s Word application violates a Canadian firm’s patent. The ruling...
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Computer Chips Based on DNA
In order to meet the demand for ever smaller and faster computer chips, IBM and the California Institute of Technology have been researching...
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Twitter Attack Aimed at Georgian Blogger
CNET News reported on August 6 that “a Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted...
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Cyberattack Takes Down Twitter
A denial-of-service attack took down the Twitter short messaging service on the morning of August 6. As of this writing, the Twitter status...
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Marines Fight Facebook, NFL Tackles Twitter
The Los Angeles Times reported on August 5 that the Defense Department is studying how to use social networking sites such as Facebook,...
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