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Google bows to pressure, adds 'Privacy' link to home page

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For Google, ready Privacy: That could be the subliminal message Google wants to send by replacing its name on i...

Priorities

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It's the early 1990s when this pilot fish is challenged to find a better way to support telecommuting -- and with a little ingenuity, he does.

Apple cuts price of high-end SSD MacBook Air by $500

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Apple on Thursday quietly reduced the price of its most expensive laptop by $500, dropping the cost of the upper-end MacBook Air to $2,598.

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How to banish the 'blah blog' blues with WordPress

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
Tired of toying with the puny tools that cookie-cutter blog services provide? Follow the steps in this easy guide to install a WordPress blog on your domain and personalize your Web presence.

Google gives away home-cooked Web application security scanner

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
An in-house tool for testing Web-apps security at Google is now available for free download under the Apache 2.0 software license.

Google blurs faces to protect privacy in French StreetView

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
Acceding to various requests, Google will blur the faces of people caught on camera by the French edition of its StreetView service, which so far follows only the route of the upcoming Tour de France.

Microsoft promises four patches next week

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
The upcoming Patch Tuesday collection has no critical-level entries, according to Microsoft information released Thursday afternoon.

Google keeps code but Viacom gets YouTube user data

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00

Google need not reveal its search code to Viacom, but its YouTube subsidiary must disclose a database listing w...

Former Newark IT contractor pleads guilty to defrauding Cisco

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
A third-party IT contractor for the city of Newark has pleaded guilty to illegally reselling technology from Cisco.

Mozilla's Firefox 3 sets geeky world record for downloads

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
Mozilla was successful in setting the world record for most software downloads in one day with Firefox 3.

Opera patches multiple bugs in flagship browser

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
Opera Software has patched the newest version of its flagship browser, releasing Opera 9.5.1 to fix several flaws.

Elgan: Independence Day (from the grid, that is)

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
Make your own "declaration of independence," says columnist Mike Elgan, and set yourself up with the right phone, data plan, laptop and other devices so you're ready at any time to do whatever you want do to, and go wherever you want to go.

Judge orders YouTube to expose user viewing habits and history

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
A federal judge has ordered Google's YouTube business to turn over its logging database to Viacom as part of the latter's $1 billion lawsuit against the video-sharing Web site.

OLPC tries to bridge gap with developer community

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
There's a big ideological gap between developers, who espouse the XO laptop as a watershed open-source project, and One Laptop Per Child, which wants to sell more cheap PCs, one observer says, and now OLPC is trying to mend fences.

Expect iPhone, Fourth of July scams, security firm says

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
Next week's launch of Apple's new iPhone, coupled with the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S. on Friday, is likely to lead to more malware spam over the coming days.

Advance your BlackBerry(R) solution management know-how this July

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
LIVE WEBCAST
(Source: Research In Motion) Register to attend the BlackBerry Technical Seminar 2008 live on July 9th, 2008, 9am - 11pm ET. Attend this seminar virtually, from the comfort of your desktop and take advantage of learning opportunities designed uniquely for BlackBerry Administrators and Managers.

Why SaaS is Vital to Email and Web Security

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
(Source: Webroot Software) Business dependence on email and web is greater than ever before and the volume of threats has spiked dramatically. This webcast will discuss security software as a service (SaaS) as an emerging technology and use customer case studies to provide real world examples of why it is vital for a multi-layered security strategy.

Energy Star for servers may be ready by year's end, EPA says

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
The EPA said an Energy Star rating for servers could be ready by the end of the year, although the amount of information it offers will be limited at first.

Sure, NOW you talk about it!

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 09:00
This company's infrastructure group is running a disaster recovery exercise with a reluctant participant: an IT manager who's notorious as a bully.