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Audit Finds FBI Abused Patriot Act
DRM — It's Not Really About Piracy
Microsoft Excludes GPLv3 From Linspire Deal
PowerPoint Bad For Learning
90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista
Kids 'Unaffected By Game Violence' Says Study
Report Indicates Workers Play A Lot of Games On the Job
Smarter Teens Have Less Sex
Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You
Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy
Ethanol Demand Is Boosting Food Prices Worldwide
Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent
Don't Believe What You See at the Movies
Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams
Late Adopters Prefer the Tried and True
Study Finds Cost Major Factor In Outsourcing Positions
Valve Says Choice to Make DX10 Vista-Only Hurt PC Gaming
Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap
DRM Causes Piracy
Don't Dismiss Online Relationships As Fantasy
Pentagon Manipulating TV Analysts
Russinovich Says, Expect Vista Malware
SCO Says IBM Hurt Profits
Study Finds IE7 + EV SSL Won't Stop Phishing
Vista Worse For User Efficiency Than XP
'Neurotic' is Best RTS strategy
A Majority of Businesses Will Not Move To Vista
Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane'
Billions Face Risks From Climate Change
CCTVs Don't Work in the UK
Complaints Pour In After Digital TV Test
Congress Must Make Clear Copyright Laws
Copyright Cutback Proposed As RIAA Solution
DRM Free Music is Everywhere
Do We Really Need a Security Industry?
Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone
EA - Wii Caught Us By Surprise
FBI Finds It Overstepped Bounds in Collecting Data
Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism
Fewer People Copy DVDs Than Once Thought
Gates Proclaims Internet to Revolutionize TV in 5 Years
IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India
Jobs Says People Don't Want to 'Rent' Music
Learn How UNIX Multitasks
Meetings Make You Dumber
Nano Safety Worries Scientists More Than Public
New Head of EMI Says 'Embrace Digital Music or Die'
Open WAP = Probable Cause?
School Boards Rule, Internet No Longer Dangerous
Security Isn't Just Avoiding Microsoft
Slobs Found To Be More Productive Than Neatniks
Social Networking Sites Full of Security Holes
Steve Jobs Hates Buttons
Study Finds Instant Messaging Helps Productivity
Study Finds P2P Has No Effect on Legal Music Sales
Study Says Kids Like 'M' Rated Games
The US Rural Broadband Crisis
U.S. Copyright Lobby Out of Touch
US Lags World In Broadband Access
Ubuntu Continues to Grab Market Share
Viacom Vs. YouTube, Beyond Privacy
Virtualization Is Not All Roses
iPhone Keyboard Leads to Typso
100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering
2006 Was the Warmest Year Ever
A CIO's View of Ubuntu
AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers
Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption
African Americans and the Video Game Industry
Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day
Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well
Are In-Depth Articles Better Than Blog Postings?
Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science?
Bad Signs For Blu-ray
Barrier to Web 2.0 — IT Departments
Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries
Boeing-Skyhook Airship Faces Technical Challenges
British Police Use Facebook to Gather Evidence
Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness
DIY Solar Resources?
Delete Cookies, Inflate Net Traffic Estimates
Dell To Linux Users — Not So Fast
Don't Google "How To Commit Murder" Before Killing
Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation?
Drugs In Our Drinking Water
FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion
FCC Head Wants New Wireless Devices Unlocked
Failing Our Geniuses
Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic
Galapagos Islands Environment "In Danger"
Gaming Gear Showdown, Simplicity vs. Hype
Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful
Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop"
Halo 3 Causing Network Issues
Have Spammers Overcome the CAPTCHA?
How eBay Sellers Fix Auctions
Humans Not Evolved for IT Security
IE 8 To Include New Security Tools
Ian Murdock: Debian "Missing a Big Opportunity"
In Some Places, Local Search Beating Google
Intel, Microsoft Despised the XO Laptop
Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music
Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You
MP3 Format Still Gathering Momentum
MS Giving Exploit Writers Clues To Flaws
Macs Gaining a Bigger Role In Enterprise
Microsoft Brand In Sharp Decline
Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users
Microsoft to Open Source FoxPro
Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M"
Multitasking Considered Detrimental
NVIDIA Shaking Up the Parallel Programming World
NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS
Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked
Open Source — Selling Software That Sells Itself
Patent Threats In OOXML
Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear
Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them
RIAA Says CDs Should Cost More
Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best
Russia and Georgia Engaged In a Cyberwar
Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices
Store Says DRM Causes 3 of 4 Support Calls
Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls
TV Delays Driving AU Viewers To Piracy
TV Viewing Linked to Attention Problems
The Death of Windows XP
The Next Big Thing — Why Web 2.0 Isn't Enough
The Secrets of Firefox about:config
Thinking of Security Vulnerabilities As Defects
Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind
US Virtual Border Fence Doesn't Work
US's Slow Embrace of Information Technology
Ubuntu's Power Consumption Tested
Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright
Vista Slow To Copy, Delete Files
What Tech Workers Need To Know About Overtime
Who Wrote, and Paid For, 2.6.20
Women "Advertise" Fertility
You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source
eBay Bargains Soon To Be A Thing Of The Past?
'Dumb Terminals' Can Be a Smart Move for Companies
AMD's Hybrid Graphics Unveiled, Tested
Automatix 'Actively Dangerous' to Ubuntu
BBC Rules That Wi-Fi Radiation Findings Were Wrong
Big Box Store Reps Push Unnecessary Recovery Discs
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All
Blackberry "Spy" Software Released
Blu-ray Player Prices Hit 2008 Highs
Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop?
Cell Phones Aren't Killing Bees After All
Comcast Continues to Block Peer to Peer Traffic
Consumer Vista Upgrades Moving at Snail's Pace
Court Puts Further Limits on Software Patents
Culture Determines Which Emoticon You Use
DMCA Creator Admits Failure, Blames RIAA
Defused Googlebombs May Backfire
Drive-By Pharming Attack Could Hit Home Networks
EA Calls for Open Platform/Single Console for Games
EU Commission Study Finds OSS Saves Money
EU Official Labels Microsoft's Behavior Unacceptable
Expert Unveils 'Scary' VoIP Hack
FCC Admits Mistakes In Measuring Broadband Competition
Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180
Gamers Don't Know Their Own Consoles
Gamers Grapple With VA Tech Shooting
Games Are No Cause For Murder
Gates Pegs Nintendo, Not Sony, as Toughest Competition
Google Pleased With ISO OOXML Decision
Holmes Comet Coma Grows Bigger Than The Sun
Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity?
IE8 May Not Pass the Acid2 Test After All
Japanese Company Admits To Nuclear Cover Up
LittleBigPlanet to Have Enemies
Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams
Microsoft Admits to Serious Problems with OneCare
Microsoft CEO Claims iPhone Will Be Bust
Microsoft DRM Code for Netflix Streams Hacked
Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents
Microsoft's Ballmer: Google Reads Your Mail
Microsoft's IIS is Twice as Likely to Host Malware?
Modern Medicine Might Have Saved Lincoln
More Evidence That XP is Vista's Main Competitor
Mossberg - Vista Is Worthy, Largely Unexciting
Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War
Most Laws Attempting Limits of Violent Videogames Fail
Name-Your-Cost Radiohead Album Pirated More Than Purchased
New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor
One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies
Picture-Sorting Dogs Show Human-Like Thought
Pirating Software? Choose Microsoft!
Price Cut Leads To PS3, PSP Sales Boost
SCO Admits They Might Just Not Win - Maybe
Security Software Costs More to Renew Than Buy New
Security Threat Changing, Says Symantec CEO
Should RIAA Investigators Have To Disclose Evidence?
Some People Just Never Learn
Sony Open to Considering PS3 Price Cuts
Stem Cells Change Man's DNA
Study Finds That 'M'-Rated Games Sell Best