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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
Tired of toying with the puny tools that cookie-cutter blog services provide? Follow the steps in this easy guide to install a WordPress blog on your domain and personalize your Web presence.

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?
Mark Hall hears five reasons why thin clients are finally going to be embraced this year.

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.

All it takes is a couple hours and about $125 to breathe new life into an old laptop. Here's how.
Is Microsoft's Golden Age over? What are Gates' most memorable quotes? Find out in Computerworld's complete coverage of the end of the Bill Gates era at Microsoft.
There are some things your CIO definitely doesn't want to hear. Also don't miss the flipside, Five things you should always tell your boss.
With its latest version, Mozilla's browser continues to raise the bar for what Web browsers should be.
Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.
Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?
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Troubleshooting Remote Site Networks - Best Practices
Management and remote site employees expect the same level of network service as the headquarters site. However, when IT staff are faced with limited resources to support remote site networks, often the applications, services and performance at those sites is not as robust as the headquarters site. See how to deliver a high level of network service at remote sites using the best practices outlined in this white paper.

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Super-size your LAN with fiber
Fiber optic technology frees the Local Area Network (LAN) from the confines of a single building, allowing a LAN to extend across a campus or a metropolitan area. Read how the selection of fiber optic components affects repeaterless transmission distance and how one school district used fiber to build a more reliable and more cost effective high-speed, district-wide network. Also, read how Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) ownership may require self-assessment of network performance.

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Determining the cause of poor application performance
Are users constantly complaining that your network is too slow? Or that they can’t connect or can't stay connected? Are network applications hanging and slowing productivity? Do you spend way too much time trying to isolate the source of the problem and to prove that often the issue isn't the network at all but the application? In this on demand webcast, learn best practices and common root causes of application problems using case studies and live network traffic.

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