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Allen Stern

Will FriendFeed's New Search Equal More Real-Time Spam?
Social message board service FriendFeed announced the launch of their new search engine this week. Will this new search engine see a huge increase in spam?

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George Hulme

Enjoyed The July 4th Fireworks? Skip The Waledac Movie
After a few weeks of low activity, the infamous Waledac botnet is lighting things up once again. This time, its hook is the promise of a "fabulous" July 4 video on YouTube.

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Dave Methvin

Why I'm Dropping Bing For Google
It's been about a month since I started a Bing experiment, and it's gone pretty well. Search results are about as good as Google, sometimes better. After a month, though, I've decided to go back to Google. The problem isn't with the search results quality; it's all the other things that Bing doesn't do -- and some things it does that I wish it wouldn't.

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Eric Zeman

Alpha Version Of Skyfire Released To Limited BlackBerry Testers
Skyfire has made some waves in the mobile browser market on Windows Mobile and S60-based devices. Its key feature is Flash, which lets users of those devices view embedded video content on Web sites such as YouTube and Hulu. Now, Skyfire is working on a better browser for BlackBerries and the alpha testing is underway.

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Mitch Wagner

Universal Internet Access: Not As Simple As It Appears
Internet advocates have been saying for years that America needs policies to ensure "universal access," but that's a more complicated goal than just saying "everybody should have access to the Internet." A former Obama advisor says government needs to determine what levels of access should be universal—how fast is fast enough? And another part of universal access is making sure the Internet doesn't fragment into multiple, mutually incompatible networks.

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Nicole Ferraro

Slide Show: Personal Democracy Forum 2009
Slides from the 2009 Personal Democracy Forum, and wise words from Craigslist's Craig Newmark

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Gaston Hillar

Actors, Messages and Low Lock Contention for Java
Using actors and messages, concurrency is easier to understand. However, most developers don't want to learn a new programming language in order to use actors and messages. If you want to forget a bit about threads and locks, you can add nice actor support to an existing Java application using Jetlang.



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Does Twitter Match The Mission?
A CIO with the U.S. Air Force argues that government-technology decision makers must apply cost-benefit analysis in determining whether Web 2.0 tools make sense for their agencies.

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Bob Evans

Global CIO: How 22% Annual Fees For You Equals 51% Operating Margins For Oracle
The enterprise-software powerhouse is rightfully proud of its financial prowess. But in this brutal economy, are its customers getting a fair return?

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Rob Preston

Down To Business: When National IT Pride Devolves Into Stereotypes
Americans excel at this, Indians fall down at that. Well, we all have our strengths and weaknesses independent of perceived "cultural" predispositions.

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Practical Analysis: Why Aren't We Better At Protecting Data?
Knowing where your peers have failed to protect data is the first step in crafting an effective data protection policy.

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