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Google settles Buzz privacy lawsuit
Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service.
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Texas conducting antitrust review of Google
Google on Friday said that the Texas Attorney General's Office is conducting an antitrust review of the search giant, following a similar investigation launched in Europe earlier this year.
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Facebook glitch let spammer post to walls
A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week.
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HP buys 3Par, Apple rolls out new gear
Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.
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Nigerian advance-fee scammer gets 12 years
A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge.
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Bohemian neutrality
The wrangling over net neutrality deserves an opera. Gibbs obliges.
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Twitter mobile users up 62% since April
Twitter's mobile user base has spiked 62% since mid-April, thanks in great part to the release of official Twitter applications for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry phones.
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Latest Skype beta offers group video calls for 10
The latest beta version of Skype offers the ability to do group video calls with up to 10 people.
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Hotmail suffers outage
A technical problem kept an undetermined number of Windows Live Hotmail users locked out of their e-mail accounts for hours on Thursday.
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Verizon joins the prepaid mobile data party
Verizon Wireless joined a growing trend on Thursday by announcing prepaid data plans for most of the smartphones and feature phones it sells.
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To boost security, Facebook adds remote logout
Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts.
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Skyfire Browser (Beta)
Although Android comes with its own stock Web browser, you may be left wanting more features (such as improved video streaming) or a better interface. Skyfire Browser (currently in beta) fulfills that desire in many respects but also occasionally stumbles in ways that, for now, confirm its not-yet-final status.
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Google, AOL renew long-term partnership
Google and AOL have renewed a long-term partnership that gives AOL Web properties access to Google search and advertising services.
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Cisco buys wireless smart grid company
Cisco said it will acquire Arch Rock Corp., a privately held developer of IP-based wireless network technology for smart grids.
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FCC strikes down free broadband plan
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has closed the door on a controversial proposal for a way to use a chunk of wireless spectrum, but continues to consider how best to deploy the valuable spectrum.
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FCC seeks more feedback on net neutrality
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in the midst of a long and often contentious debate over whether it should enact formal rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing Web content, is asking the public for more comments about network neutrality.
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Cisco, Itron to jointly design smart energy grid communications
Cisco and utility metering company Itron have agreed to jointly develop a standards-based IP-based communications platform for smart energy grids.
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Amazon lines up ducks for streaming service
Amazon.com has been glad-handling executives at major entertainment companies, trying to sell them on a service for streaming TV shows and movies over the Internet, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move would be a direct challenge to the 800-pound gorilla in the market, Netflix, and to Google, which recently announced plans to bake its Android operating system into a variety of TV-related devices. Apple is also rumored to be planning to get into the streaming business with 99-cent rentals of TV shows from the Fox networks and Disney-owned ABC.
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Salesforce.com rolls out contact-data service
Salesforce.com rolled out a new service on Wednesday that integrates business-contact information with its own CRM (customer relationship management) application and Chatter collaboration software.
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