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Internet 'Kill Switch' Could Cause Chaos

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January 18, 2011
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Internet 'Kill Switch' Could Cause Chaos A proposed US Internet 'kill switch' to be used in the event of a cyberwar event could actually cause more problems that it would prevent
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With Apple's Jobs on Leave, Many Questions and Few Answers With Steve Jobs taking another medical leave, Apple customers, investors,and partners are again left to wonder are the implications.
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Oracle Continues to Make Sun Customers Miserable Is Oracle doing this on purpose? Or has anyone who knows or cares about all that beautiful Sun hardware left the company?
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Facebook Backs Off Third-Party Data-Sharing Plan The site had wanted to let third-party developers request your home address and phone number through the pop-up windows you see the first time you use a Facebook game or log in to a website using your Facebook ID.
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8th Grader's iPhone Game 'Bubble Ball' Knocks Angry Birds From Perch Physics-based puzzle game by 14-year-old the new 'top free' app in Apple's iPhone store three weeks after release.
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Roku's WealthTV Deal is a Glimpse of a la Carte Viewing For $2.99 per month, Roku users can now watch WealthTV as if it were on cable, with a set schedule of shows streaming around the clock.
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As PC Virus Turns 25, New Worry Emerges: Attack Toolkits 25 years ago, two brothers from Pakistan released the Brain Virus. Today, hackers can buy ready-made toolkits to launch malware attacks - and this trend should concern you.
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iTunes, Safari Merger Qualifies as Dumb Rumor of the Day A very iffy rumor from a not-so credible source that Apple wants to integrate iTunes into Safari should be immediately dismissed.
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Announced For PS3, Xbox 360 This Year Direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII coming in 2011 for Japan, announced for North American gamers sometime "next winter."
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'World of Starcraft' in the Works Using StarCraft II Engine Is StarCraft II's map editor powerful enough to create a full-blown online roleplaying game? It's looking like it.
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Google Translate Goes Star Trek; Still Can't Translate Klingon Google Translate brings us closer to the dream of a Star Trek-esque Universal Translator
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Scientists to Clone Woolly Mammoth in Five Years Japanese scientists think they'll be able to clone woolly mammoths from frozen tissue in a few years.
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Virus Causes Library Internet Access Shutdown Library users in Portsmouth (population: 200,000) face the annoyance of up to two weeks without Internet access after the organization's computer systems were hit by a virus.
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iOS Users Beating Android Counterparts in Update Battle Almost 90 percent of iOS device owners run the latest version of the software, while the newest Android version is installed on only 0.4 percent of devices.
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Beach Town Considers Facebook to Combat Drunk Driving City council members in Huntington Beach, Calif., will debate a directive requiring police to post the mug shots of DUI repeat offenders on the department's Facebook page.
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Facebook Ends End-run Around U.S. Securities Laws It seems Goldman Sachs has decided that "intense media attention" no longer made it worthwhile to go forward with offering a piece of Facebook in the U.S.
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Sprint Adds $10 Monthly Data Charge to New Smartphone Users The move, which will apply to all smartphones and begins Jan. 30, is seen as simple way to cover increased data use.
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Steve Jobs' Medical Leave May Leave Apple in a Lurch Apple's CEO has transformed the company into an empire whose influence reaches to nearly every screen in the home.
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Bank of America Outage -- Not Related to Wikileaks Bank of America (BofA) has said that a 'routine systems change' had caused its online banking service to go offline on Friday, not a Wikileaks attack.
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