Vt. ponders more monitoring of worker web surfing (AP)
AP - A move by state agencies to crack down on inappropriate Web surfing by state employees has erupted in the Statehouse as a debate over workplace privacy rights.
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Chavez exhorts Fidel, Morales to Twitter (Reuters)
Reuters - Delighted at his cyber success, Venezuela’s new Twitter convert President Hugo Chavez on Thursday invited Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Bolivian President Evo Morales to join the micro-blogging site too.
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Apple iPhone prototype finder identified (AFP)
AFP - A 21-year-old Californian man was identified on Thursday as the person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype to the technology blog Gizmodo.
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Yahoo CEO starts reign with $47.2M comp package (AP)
AP - Yahoo Inc. CEO Carol Bartz received a $47.2 million compensation package during her first year on the job as the Internet company tried to motivate her to engineer a turnaround.
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Rosetta Stone loses court case against Google (AP)
AP - Foreign language education company Rosetta Stone Inc. said Thursday it lost a court case in which it sued Google Inc. for allowing rivals to advertise copycat software when Rosetta trademarks are used in search terms.
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Facebook’s expansion triggers political backlash (AP)
AP - Facebook’s plan to spread its online social network to other websites could be detoured by regulators looking into privacy concerns that have raised the ire of federal lawmakers.
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Fake anti-virus software a growing online threat: Google (AFP)
AFP - Google said Tuesday that fake software security programs rigged to infect computers are a growing online threat with hackers tricking people into installing nefarious code on machines.
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Venezuela’s Chavez joins Twitter (AFP)
AFP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will soon join the ranks of politicians on the popular micro-blogging site Twitter, under the profile @chavezcandanga, Minister of Public Works Diosdado Cabello said Tuesday.
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Corrected: Former rivals eBay, Alibaba tie-up on new platform (Reuters)
Reuters - (Corrects 2nd paragraph to state that AliExpress was launched on Monday, not now in beta-testing.)
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Venezuela’s chatty leader Chavez joins Twitter (Reuters)
Reuters - Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez opened a Twitter account on Tuesday, launching himself into the digital fray to combat opponents who have seized on the micro-blogging site to criticize his socialist government.
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