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Belarus to toughen control over Internet

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(AP) -- Belarus' authoritarian leader is promising to toughen regulation of the Internet and its users in an apparent effort to exert control over the last fully free medium in the former Soviet state.


Review: No more writing checks in lifestyle change (AP)

Review: No more writing checks in lifestyle change

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(AP) -- It's been nine months since I've written a check. That's not to say I'm on some 12-step program to resist shopping. My credit card bills would suggest otherwise. Rather, when I opened a new bank account ...


Facebook and other services will be an ideal vector for cybercriminals

Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee

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Social networks will face increasingly sophisticated hacker attacks in 2010 but law enforcement is expected to make strides in fighting cybercrime, according to Web security firm McAfee Labs.


It's hip to be Square; Twitter inventor has new venture

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It was in February that Jim McKelvey ran into the problem that would lead to the birth of Square, a new mobile-payment venture led by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey.


Google announced plans to hold a press event next month about its Android mobile phone operating system

Google plans Android event in January

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Google announced plans on Tuesday to hold a press event next month about its Android mobile phone operating system amid speculation the Internet giant plans to release its own smartphone.


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Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case

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A 28-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hacking into corporate computer networks and carrying out what US officials have described as the largest credit card theft in US history.


Google faces China lawsuit over book scanning

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(AP) -- A Chinese novelist is suing Google Inc. for scanning her work into its online library.



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