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Court Nixes Law Aimed at Protecting Kids Online

Proponents of the beleaguered Child Online Protection Act suffered yet another blow Tuesday when a federal appeals court deemed the law unconstitutional once again ...

BOOK REVIEW

The Freewheeling Web’s Privacy Noose

It's no secret that individual privacy has already suffered since the Internet era began, but privacy law expert Daniel Solove believes things are likely to get even worse -- much worse -- and he illustrates his vision in living color with a wealth of examples from the here and now ...

Microsoft Doubles Live Mesh Test Force

After unveiling its Live Mesh cloud computing service back in April, Microsoft on Wednesday opened up the software's preview version to a larger number of early users in the United States ...

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

HealthMap Crawls the Web to Track Disease Outbreaks

A new health-mapping system crawls the Web's disparate news sources and aggregates the information it finds there into a unified view of the world's health ...

Are the Feds Stalking Your Cell Phone? Lawsuit Seeks Answers

Two legal groups have filed a lawsuit to get more information on whether the U.S. government may be using Americans' cell phones to pinpoint their locations -- sometimes without any warrant or court oversight ...

Dell Targets Creative Types With Color, Customization

Dell on Thursday introduced a new, colorful laptop line aimed at artistic and creative consumers ...

Racy JCPenney Ad Stripped From YouTube

For most companies, a corporate ad that spreads virally on YouTube is nothing short of a dream come true. Not so for JCPenney, which is protesting a racy and unauthorized ad that took the video sharing site by storm -- until YouTube removed it. ...

SPACE

Mars Water-Life Connection Tenuous, Scientists Say

Scientists on Friday confirmed that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has uncovered ice in the sandy soil of the red planet ...

Teen Hacker Could Get 38-Year Sentence for Fixing Grades

Two Orange County, Calif., teens have been charged with breaking into their school late at night and using stolen log-ins to hack into its computer system and change their grades ...

After 15 Years Developing Wine, It’s Time

After 15 years of development and beta testing, the first stable version of Wine is now available, its developers announced Tuesday ...

STARTUP TO WATCH

ZeeVee Builds New Bridge From PC to TV

When startup ZeeVee launched its ZvBox last month, it entered a fray in which high-profile contenders have already found success elusive ...

Ultra-Low Power Sensor Chip Really Knows How to Relax

A new microchip developed by researchers at the University of Michigan uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less power in active mode than comparable chips now on the market, the university announced Friday ...

SPACE

Virtual Space Travel, Part 2: Surfing to Mars

Now that NASA has entered the virtual world with its two islands in Second Life, public outreach, collaboration and space exploration may never be the same again ...

Lawmakers Bemoan China’s Glib Response to Hacker Accusations

Two U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday accused China of hacking into their office computers, bringing a swift denial from the Chinese government the next day ...

SPACE

Sergey’s Big Adventure: Earth Isn’t Enough

Google cofounder Sergey Brin on Wednesday became the first person to put down a deposit of US$5 million toward a future orbital spaceflight through a new program from Space Adventures ...

Samsung Promises iPhone Rival on Apple’s Big Day

Apple's new iPhone 3G may have made the biggest splash in the smartphone pond on Monday, but it wasn't the only splash. Earlier in the day, Samsung Electronics debuted its Omnia, a device seen as an iPhone contender ...

SPACE

Virtual Space Travel, Part 1: One Small Step

For those of us old enough to remember life before the Internet, the term "virtual space travel" probably conjures memories of childhood visits to the local planetarium. ...

Scientists Study Human Movements Through Secret Cell Phone Tracking

A team of scientists recently conducted a study of human travel patterns by secretly tracking the whereabouts of cell phone users ...

Google Caught in Privacy Teapot Tempest Over Link Location

A coalition of 14 privacy and consumer organizations have charged that Google is violating California law by failing to post a prominent link on its home page to its privacy policy ...

Countries Line Up Against OOXML as Global Standard

Venezuela is now the latest country to appeal the adoption of an international standard based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format ...

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