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Senator Calls for Privacy Protections for Device Location

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January 27, 2011
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Senator Calls for Privacy Protections for Device Location A U.S. senator says he wants to rewrite rules for police access to the location information of mobile device customers.
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Smart Cards No Match for Online Spies The U.S. government has been stepping up its use of smart cards to help lock down its computer networks, but hackers have found ways around them.
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Seagate: Solid-State Disks Are Doomed (At Least For Now) Seagate says solid-state disks are unlikely to go mainstream in the near future due to a shortage of chips.
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Retaining Data Does Not Help Fight Crime, Says Group Retaining telecoms data is no help in fighting crime according to a study of German police statistics; released Thursday.
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Lenovo, NEC Form PC Joint Venture in Japan Lenovo and NEC on Thursday announced a joint venture to sell PCs in Japan.
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AT&T Revenue Up, Driven by Smartphone Growth AT&T reports a revenue increase of 2.1 percent for the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Nokia's Profit Drops, Faces Need to Change Faster Nokia reported an increase in sales for the fourth quarter, but profit declined as the company continues to struggle in the high-end smartphone segment.
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Taiwan's Internet Economy Fights to Find Talent Tseng Chien-lin turned down an offer from the Taiwan offices of Yahoo to take a job with a barely known Internet startup involved in the design of a social...
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Apple Introducing IPad in India Apple’s iPad will be available in India from Friday; but the market promises to be tough
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Asus Eee Slate on Amazon for $1,099 Asustek Computer's Eee Slate tablet, which has some laptop-class features, is now available on Amazon.com for US$1,099.
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IBM's LotusLive Tied Into SugarCRM, Ariba IBM's LotusLive on-demand collaboration suite is getting a boost via integration with SugarCRM and Ariba's Discovery Service supplier database, the companies...
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