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FTC puts Google on 20 years of 'privacy probation'

Dell draws derision for dissing iPad | Tech's youngest billionaires

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FTC puts Google on 20 years of 'privacy probation'
The Federal Trade Commission has come down like a ton of government regulators on Google and its Google Buzz social networking service for stomping all over their own privacy policies when it launched back in February of 2010. The agreement announced today addresses an FTC charge that Google "used deceptive tactics and violated its own privacy promises to consumers." It makes future demands on Google... Read More


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Dell draws derision for dissing iPad
Woe is the rival company - in this case Dell -- that predicts failure for Apple and its products, in particular the iPad. Read More

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Hacker group defies U.S. law, defends exposing McAfee website vulnerabilities
The hacker group that exposed holes in McAfee's website knows it's breaking U.S. law, but vows to continue exposing vulnerabilities, especially on security vendor websites. Read More


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Microsoft is boosting the price of a client license but sweetening the deal by giving buyers access to a new endpoint security product and the new Lync unified communications software. Read More

Researchers' SSL offloader costs fraction of commercial hardware
Off-the-shelf graphic processing units can perform SSL acceleration as fast as high-end commercial SSL hardware at a fraction of the cost, according to researchers in Korea and the U.S. Read More

Google gigabit network going to Kansas City
Kansas City is the lucky winner of a 1Gbit-per-second broadband network that Google plans to build. Read More


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Microsoft researchers tout low-cost, programmable prototype data center switch
Microsoft researchers are experimenting with a programmable, low-cost prototype switch they say could help support cloud or other network-delivered services. Read More

Salesforce.com buying social monitoring vendor Radian6
Salesforce.com plans to buy social media monitoring vendor Radian6, whose technology tracks conversations occurring on social sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the company said Wednesday. Read More

Sprint CEO's pay drops 26% to $9.1 million
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse received compensation worth $9.1 million in 2010, down from $12.3 million in 2009, according to documents filed with the SEC this week Read More

IT workloads up as tech added sans staff
As data centers continue to add technology, they arent necessarily adding people to manage their servers, new surveys have found. Read More



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