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• Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox

  Monday, Feb 6, 7:28 am

  Challenging Netflix, phone company Verizon Communications Inc. says it will start a video streaming service later this year in cooperation with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks. Read more...
  

• Google, Facebook remove content on India's order

  Monday, Feb 6, 5:34 am

  Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest democracy, media reported Monday. Read more...
  
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  For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life

  Saturday, Feb 4, 8:12 am

  Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker. Read more...
  

• Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site

  Saturday, Feb 4, 6:18 am

  A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it. Read more...
  
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  Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call

  Friday, Feb 3, 9:04 pm

  Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet. Read more...
  
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  CEO of chip maker Micron dies in plane crash

  Friday, Feb 3, 5:13 pm

  The head of memory chip maker Micron, long known for taking risks in stunt piloting, died Friday when a small experimental plane he was piloting steeply banked, stalled and crashed near an Idaho runway. Read more...
  
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  Law enforcement websites under attack by hackers

  Friday, Feb 3, 4:30 pm

  Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous. Read more...
  

• HP awards new CEO Whitman with $16.5M pay package

  Friday, Feb 3, 3:30 pm

  Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician's ability to lift the stumbling technology company's stock price during the next two years. Read more...
  

• Apple, Motorola in patent struggle in Germany

  Friday, Feb 3, 3:29 pm

  Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies. Read more...
  

• Motorola: Some refurbished tablets weren't wiped

  Friday, Feb 3, 10:24 am

  Motorola Mobility says about 100 Xoom tablet computers that it refurbished for sale on Woot.com may not have been properly wiped of the previous owners' data. Read more...
  
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  New map pinpoints Lyme disease risk areas

  Friday, Feb 3, 10:22 am

  Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. Read more...
  

• Hackers take over Boston police website

  Friday, Feb 3, 9:10 am

  The hacking collective Anonymous is claiming credit for defacing the Boston Police Department's website. Read more...
  

• EU probes new Google privacy policy

  Friday, Feb 3, 8:53 am

  The European Union's data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it doesn't break the bloc's data protection laws. Read more...
  
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  Japanese entrepreneurs aim for Silicon Valley

  Friday, Feb 3, 8:02 am

  For an emerging generation of Japanese innovators, the dream isn't a job for life at a big company. They have new ambitions, and they're determined to go places. Especially Silicon Valley. Read more...
  
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  Pew study: Facebook users get more than they give

  Friday, Feb 3, 7:59 am

  The goody-two-shoes among us say it's better to give than to receive. That's not true for the average Facebook user, though. Read more...