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  • Drudge Report, TechCrunch hit by ad malware
    published on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:53:06 -0700
    Matt Drudge and Michael Arrington found themselves in an unpleasant position last week when visitors to their sites were targeted by malware that appeared to have come from ads. by Elinor Mills CNET News...
  • Obama lines up with copyright owners
    published on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:52:36 -0800
    As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a young technology fan who appeared to be an establishment outsider. But he now appears to have lined up on the side of copyright owners. by Greg Sandoval CNET News...
  • Why no one cares about privacy anymore
    published on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:40:46 -0800
    Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the company's social network called Google Buzz. We know this because an engineer working five feet from Brin used Google Buzz to say so. by Declan McCullagh CNET News...
  • Judges uphold Word patent-infringement ruling
    published on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:55:45 -0800
    A US Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judgement that Microsoft infringed on another company's patent with its custom XML tags in Word 2003 and Word 2007. by David Meyer ZDNet UK...
  • Target offers mobile coupons
    published on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:03:35 -0800
    Mobile coupons are coming to mega-retailer Target, which will allow shoppers all over the U.S. to use their mobile handset to get discounts on all kinds of products. by Marguerite Reardon CNET News...
  • Browser choice not coming to Asia
    published on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:53:12 -0800
    Microsoft rivals have indicated that they will not be pushing for a similar action in the Asia-Pacific region. by Liau Yun Qing ZDNet Asia...
  • Twitter aims to filter out malicious links
    published on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:35:11 -0800
    Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks. by Elinor Mills CNET News...
  • Potential console killer OnLive to go live June 17
    published on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:20:15 -0800
    OnLive, a streaming video game service that, if properly implemented, could threaten traditional console makers. by Daniel Terdiman CNET News...
  • Drudge Report accused of serving malware
    published on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:29:29 -0800
    For the second time in less than six months, visitors to the Drudge Report say they got malware in addition to the Web site's usual sensational headlines. by Elinor Mills CNET News...
  • Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, EA in Big Huge game deal
    published on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:00:24 -0800
    Ex-baseballer Curt Schilling's developer 38 Studios has struck a deal with EA to publish an upcoming single-player role-playing game. by Tor Thorsen GameSpot...
  • HP sues Asian firms over patents
    published on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:13:46 -0800
    Hewlett-Packard has filed a suit against four companies based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accusing the defendants of patent infringement, according to various reports. by Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia...
  • Apache bug prompts update advice
    published on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:02:12 -0800
    IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apache's HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database. by Colin Ho,ZDNet.com.au...
  • Microsoft re-releases Blue Screen of Death fix
    published on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:12:46 -0800
    Microsoft is re-releasing the patch that caused Windows systems to crash in February with a Blue Screen of Death. by Richard Thurston ZDNet UK...
  • Cray, Microsoft join forces on cloud datacenters
    published on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:54:59 -0800
    Supercomputer maker Cray's custom engineering group has teamed up with Microsoft Research to look into lowering the costs of running cloud-computing datacenters. by Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK...
  • Three arrested over 12.7m PC botnet
    published on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:53:58 -0800
    Authorities in Spain have arrested three men accused of operating a massive botnet which stole credit card and bank log-in data and infected computers in half the Fortune 1,000 companies. by Elinor Mills CNET News...
  • Google boosts Chrome privacy in new beta
    published on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:25:10 -0800
    Google has improved privacy features and introduced automated translation of foreign-language web pages in a new version of its Chrome 4.1 beta browser for Windows. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK...
  • EMC, Intel team up on cloud security, compliance
    published on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:01:13 -0800
    EMC, RSA, VMware and Intel have announced a new collaboration to introduce a framework encompassing security and compliance for cloud computing in the enterprise space. by Kevin Kwang ZDNet Asia...
  • LHC to restart following break and glitches
    published on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:43:03 -0800
    The The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator is to restart on Monday following a technical break and glitches in the machine. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK...
  • Google launches people finder for Chile earthquake
    published on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:54:45 -0800
    Google has launched a tool to help people locate friends and loved ones who might have been affected by the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile on Saturday. by Steven Musil CNET News...
  • Skype drops Windows Mobile and Skype Lite
    published on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:49:13 -0800
    Skype has announced it is pulling Skype for Windows Mobile phones and Skype Lite for Java handsets, including Android. by Jessica Dolcourt CNET News...