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“60 Minutes” freaks out over Conficker. Where's John Hodgman when you need him? — I love “60 Minutes,” but sometimes it just makes you scratch your head. Isn't anyone working there who has any sophistication when it comes to technology? Lesley Stahl just finished a 15-minute freakout …
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The Conficker Worm: What Happens Next? — 60 Minutes: Computer Worm Could Receive New Instructions On April 1 — Page 1 of 4 — (CBS) The Internet is infected. Malicious computer hackers have been creating more and more weapons that they plant on the Internet.
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Screenshots of Windows 7 build 7070 leak, RC-Escrow coming — Screenshots of build 7070 have leaked, but Microsoft has also already compiled build 7071 and build 7072. Apparently Redmond is getting ready to choose an RC-Escrow build. — Two days ago, details of Windows 7 build 7068 leaked.
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Follow the Mobile User — This guest post is written by Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering for Google's mobile and developer products. (Prior to Google, he spent 15 years at Microsoft, most recently as their GM of Platform Evangelism.) Vic credits his now-7-year-old with forecasting …
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Skype for iPhone: It's official — Months after teasing us at CES with an announcement of Skype's native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday. We got a chance to sit down with the application's …
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Pirate Bay Torrents Spread Via Facebook — With the recent trial out of the way, it seems The Pirate Bay team have had more time for development of the site. Just last week they announced the addition of personal RSS feeds. This week we revealed that they will also offer a new IPRED-busting VPN service.
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Pirate Bay on Facebook? Be careful, folks, don't rise to the bait.
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Tech savvy teenager takes Lexington transit in new directions — The town of Lexington's transit service is fairly informal. The stops are pretty much wherever you happen to be standing when you see a bus. — But in one regard, the scrappy Lexpress and its six bus routes are ahead …
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AT&T pulls trigger on Nokia E71x and Samsung Propel Pro — Kicking off what's sure to be a fun-filled week of announcements surrounding CTIA out in Vegas, AT&T's smartphone lineup just got a little beefier thanks to the official introduction of a couple devices we've been expecting for a hot minute now.
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Mouthy Billionaire Mark Cuban Fined for Using Twitter — The NBA has fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, the dotcom billionaire, $25,000 for slagging referees on Twitter Friday. His Twittered response: The league has found a way for Twitter to make money.
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Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City — Contributors to Wikipedia have wondered aloud lately if — perish the thought — they are running out of topics. The obvious articles, low-hanging fruit like “China,” “Moses” and “Homer Simpson,” have been written and rewritten hundreds of times.
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Watch Out, Hulu: Big Media Getting Ready to Eat its Young — Hollywood and the major record labels have always enjoyed a love-hate relationship with new media, alternating between roses and lawsuits for online entrepreneurs, if you will. Lately, it was looking a little like love was going to win.
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Is the Open Cloud Manifesto Doomed? — Is the Open Cloud Manifesto doomed even before it's officially announced? The top three cloud platforms have decided not to participate. So it looks like IBM, Sun, Cisco and a host of smaller companies will be on hand to represent the new Open Cloud Manifesto when it is announced on March 30.
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We're All Geeks Now — I was on Twitter, as I frequently am, and my eye caught a retweet of Steve Rubel (@steverubel) tweeting about an Advertising Age article: Who Says Everything Has To Be Monetized? (Marketers Use ‘Communication Machine’ Twitter to Engage Consumers With Their Human Side).
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