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IRS asks for charges against former Mercury Interactive CFO 18 Apr 08, 21:14 ET AP - Government investigators have filed a criminal complaint against the former chief financial officer of software maker Mercury Interactive accusing her of tax evasion in connection with a stock options backdating scheme. more Woman pleads guilty in Craigslist murder-for-hire 18 Apr 08, 20:54 ET Reuters - A Michigan woman who advertised online for a hitman to kill her lover's wife pleaded guilty to the murder-for-hire scheme, prosecutors said on Friday. more JFK And LAX Get Scanners That See Through Clothes 18 Apr 08, 19:20 ET TechWeb - Despite privacy concerns, TSA says 90% of passengers who are subject to secondary screening opt for a millimeter wave scan over a pat down. more PayPal To Block Older IE, Firefox Browsers From Site 18 Apr 08, 18:15 ET TechWeb - The payment site said it will refuse browsers that lack the latest technology for blocking phishing sites and do not support Extended Validation Certificates. more Salesforce.com Promotes Development in the Cloud 18 Apr 08, 18:10 ET PC World - Now that Salesforce.com has proved that SaaS (software-as-a-service) is a successful business model, the company hopes to lead... more Amazon.com CEO promotes Kindle reader in shareholder letter 18 Apr 08, 18:09 ET AP - Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle has arrived. Again. more Google shares soar 20 percent to record 1-day gain 18 Apr 08, 17:40 ET AP - Google Inc.'s stock soared 20 percent Friday, restoring $28 billion in shareholder wealth as Wall Street renewed its love affair with the Internet search leader after weeks of worry about an online advertising slowdown. more Military Goods for Sale and Miscreants Aplenty 18 Apr 08, 17:10 ET PC World - Psssst... Hey, you over there! Yeah, you. Wanna buy some F-14 components? No? How about some night-vision goggles? According... more Stop QuickTime Nagging About Safari 18 Apr 08, 17:05 ET PC World - A new version of Apple's Update utility lets you choose which components to install and which to ignore. more Google Docs: Your Online Office? 18 Apr 08, 16:56 ET PC World - New features for Google's online apps offer a Web-based alternative to traditional software. more Google's strong showing renews debate over Web tracker 18 Apr 08, 16:48 ET AP - Google's strong first-quarter results threw into question the weight many investors place on data from a leading Web measurement company that had shown slowing growth in Google's U.S. paid clicks. That data can be misread or simply wrong. more CNN Faces Cyberattack Over Tibet Coverage 18 Apr 08, 16:46 ET TechWeb - Security experts and researchers are mixed on whether the attacks, reportedly scheduled around 8 p.m. on April 19, Beijing time, will happen. more Apple Ends Stealth Safari Installs Via Software Update For Windows 18 Apr 08, 16:17 ET TechWeb - The latest version of the Software Update tool for Windows, version 2.1.0.110, now clearly lists software that can be downloaded via the service and groups the updates together. more Senator urges FCC to block XM-Sirius deal 18 Apr 08, 16:02 ET Reuters - A senior Democratic senator urged U.S. communications regulators on Friday to block Sirius Satellite Radio's purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio , saying the deal would lead to higher prices to customers. more MacBook Pro Customers Report Blank Screens 18 Apr 08, 15:02 ET TechWeb - The display problem occurred after users deployed the high-end notebook's latest firmware upgrade. more Back in the USSR: Soviet Internet domain name resists death 18 Apr 08, 14:21 ET AP - The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace. more Swedish researchers find hole in 'flawless' encryption technology 18 Apr 08, 13:51 ET AFP - Quantum cryptography, a new technology until now considered 100 percent secure against attacks on sensitive data traffic, has a flaw after all, Swedish researchers said Friday. more Facebook asks users to translate new versions for free 18 Apr 08, 13:44 ET AP - The three-year-old social networking phenomenon Facebook, worth more than $15 billion by many estimates, got a good deal on going global. more Despite guidelines, assigning Net domain names is tricky 18 Apr 08, 13:38 ET AP - Argentina's Web sites end in ".ar," while Germany gets ".de" - for Deutschland, as the country is known in German. more EU to criminalise Internet-based incitement to terrorism 18 Apr 08, 13:36 ET AFP - EU justice ministers on Friday agreed to criminalise incitement of acts of terrorism, including using the Internet for recruiting purposes. more Nintendo Wii Sales Trounce Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 18 Apr 08, 13:25 ET TechWeb - Sales were sparked by the recent launch of the hit game Super Smash Bros. Brawl -- a Wii exclusive. more Video Games Booming as Xbox 360 Returns to No. 2 18 Apr 08, 13:11 ET NewsFactor - The sluggish economy doesn't seem to be hurting the video-game market. U.S. sales of game hardware and software skyrocketed 57 percent in March compared to the year-ago period, according to the NPD Group. more EA extends deadline for Take-Two tender offer to May 16 18 Apr 08, 12:16 ET AP - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. on Friday extended by nearly a month its tender offer for Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. but also lowered the price it will pay for each share of the "Grand Theft Auto" maker. more Mac Clone Maker Psystar Shuts Online Store Again 18 Apr 08, 12:08 ET TechWeb - The company said it would honor existing orders from customers who've already paid for their systems. more Bull Crams Crypto Chips Into Bootable USB Hard Disk Drive 18 Apr 08, 11:10 ET PC World - Bull has a gadget for businesses worried about the security of data stored on laptops: a bootable, portable password-protected... more PayPal to Block Users With Old Browsers 18 Apr 08, 11:00 ET PC World - PayPal plans to take the dramatic step of locking out people using older versions of Web browsers in order to stem phishing attacks. more Update: AT&T to lay off more than 4,000 employees 18 Apr 08, 10:41 ET InfoWorld - Telecom giant AT plans to lay off 1.5 percent of its employees, primarily in management, in an effort to streamline its operations, the company announced Friday. more AT&T to Lay off More Than 4,000 Employees 18 Apr 08, 10:30 ET PC World - Telecom giant AT plans to lay off 1.5 percent of its employees, primarily in management, in an effort to streamline its... more MacBook Air spurring LED use in screens 18 Apr 08, 10:05 ET InfoWorld - The MacBook Air has become the best advertisement for why companies should use LED (light-emitting diode) backlights in notebook screens, and is driving adoption, according to market researcher DisplaySearch. more EU to punish incitement to terrorism on Internet 18 Apr 08, 09:56 ET Reuters - EU states agreed on Friday on tight laws against incitement to terrorism in order to clamp down on militant groups' use of the Internet. more Video game sales soar 57 percent in March, led by Nintendo 18 Apr 08, 09:51 ET AP - Led by stellar sales of Nintendo's games and systems, U.S. retail sales of video games jumped 57 percent to $1.7 billion in March, market researcher NPD Group reported Thursday. more U.S. video game sales rise 57 percent in March 18 Apr 08, 09:43 ET Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 57 percent in March from a year earlier, industry data showed on Thursday, evidence that the industry has so far been immune to wider economic woes. more Microsoft Confirms Testing of 'Albany' Low-cost Office Suite 18 Apr 08, 09:30 ET PC World - Microsoft on Friday confirmed it is planning to release a subscription-based "value box" of low-end productivity software... more MySQL 5.1 Coming In June, Adds Partitioning, Replication 18 Apr 08, 09:30 ET TechWeb - The new release will be supplemented with MySQL Workbench, a database design tool built from the open source DBDesigner4 project. more Review: Avoid snarl of USB cables with Eye-Fi photo reader 18 Apr 08, 09:04 ET AP - My home computer desk hosts a snarl of USB cables for the various cameras, MP3 players and other peripherals I've bought over the years. more 'Gran Turismo 5 Prologue' thrills despite slim options 18 Apr 08, 06:47 ET USATODAY.com - The latest release of Gran Turismo is missing quite a bit under the hood. Instead of waiting to unveil a full version of the hit racing series for PlayStation 3, developers roll out the scaled-back Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. The options are slim, but the experience is powerful. more Sanyo Updates Its Waterproof Xacti Camera 18 Apr 08, 05:00 ET PC World - Sanyo has added higher resolution photos, better quality video and an improved face detection function to the latest... more CW plugs "Gossip" stream 18 Apr 08, 04:21 ET Reuters - The CW network is taking aim at an unlikely competitive threat: its own Web site. more Blockbuster sued over Facebook ad feature 18 Apr 08, 01:51 ET AP - A Texas woman has sued Blockbuster Inc. alleging the video rental company transmitted her personal information to Facebook.com through the Web site's Beacon marketing program. more FCC wrangles over 'Net neutrality' issue 18 Apr 08, 01:42 ET AP - A divided Federal Communications Commission on Thursday grappled further with the thorny issue of how to relieve increasing online congestion, disagreeing sharply over whether government regulations are needed. more Google sagging stock soars after strong 1Q showing 18 Apr 08, 00:13 ET AP - Investors appear ready to embrace Google Inc. again after weeks of hand wringing over whether the faltering U.S. economy would bog down the Internet search leader's moneymaking machine. more

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