Google blurs faces to protect privacy in French StreetView
Acceding to various requests, Google will blur the faces of people caught on camera by the French edition of its StreetView service, which so far follows only the route of the upcoming Tour de France. Read more...

Google gives away home-cooked Web application security scanner

Judge orders YouTube to expose user viewing habits and history

Mozilla's Firefox 3 sets geeky world record for downloads

Opera patches multiple bugs in flagship browser

Firefox sets new record, cracks 19% market share

Microsoft trumpets security additions in upcoming IE8

Mozilla patches 13 bugs in Firefox 2

Report: Microsoft readies new try for Yahoo

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How to banish the 'blah blog' blues with WordPress
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Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife
In the Global SPAM Experiment, McAfee set out to find out what would happen if people answered every spam e-mail that came to them. The 50 volunteers chronicled their experiences in the SPAM Diaries. Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., was among them.

Hands on: 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3
The newest version of Firefox has plenty of new features, including the site identification button, the Bookmarks Library and what's become known as the "Awesome Bar" --- and they're all hackable.

Saved by SaaS: Data backup via software as a service
In case of disaster, log on and grab your files? Some SMBs are having great luck with data backup via software as a service. Esther Shein looks at a few firms that make it work.

Year of the Thin Client?
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History lesson: The origins of wiki, blog and other high-tech lingo
We trace the history of some of the industry's most mundane and most unusual terminology.

Opinion: Is Google News scapegoating technology?
Google cited a technical problem in its delay of posting news about journalist Tim Russert's death, but the completely automated Google News site seems to consistently lag behind other media sites in reporting breaking news, columnist says.

We are ready for IPv6 D-Day
U.S. government's expected announcement that its systems are compatible with IPv6 is a major milestone in the upcoming transformation to the next-generation Internet.

Opinion: All's well with U.S. broadband deployment (says FCC)
Although the FCC is using new requirements for carriers that report on their services offered to different populations, it still believes 'Broadband Deployment is Reasonable and Timely,' and is therefore misusing data instead of doing real work, says columnist Scott Bradner.

Avatars Get Down to Business
Lots of corporations are dabbling in virtual worlds, but no one has found the killer app for business -- yet.

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