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October 2007 News

Posted by delta on 31st October 2007

10-03-07 Technology Review – Deciphering Human Differences
10-10-07 New York Times – AT&T To Pay $2.5 Billion For Wireless Spectrum
10-11-07 Time – US Foreclosures Nearly Double
10-12-07 Time – Pollution Dangerous To Joggers
10-15-07 Time – The Ethics Of Erasing A Bad Memory
10-16-07 Smart Money – Will Your Social Security Benefits Be Taxed Again
10-17-07 BBC – Last Rites For A Marine Marvel
10-17-07 Honolulu Star-Bulletin – Legislature Keeping Ferry Bill In Tow
10-17-07 New York Times – Apple To Open iPhone To Developers
10-17-07 New York Times – MySpace And Skype To Announce Partnership
10-17-07 NOAA – Arctic ‘Report Card’ Shows Continued Climate Changes
10-17-07 Time – The Global Warming Learning Curve
10-17-07 Washington Post – New Home Construction Plummets Again
10-17-07 Washington Post – Paulson, Bernanke Say Housing Woes May Last
10-23-07 Los Angeles Times – iPod Seekers Become Macintosh Believers
10-23-07 Los Angeles Times – Microsoft Ends 9-Year Battle With European Regulators
10-23-07 Los Angeles Times – Unwanted E-Mail Now Comes In Audio Format
10-23-07 SFGate.com – Apple’s Revenue Is Soaring, Lifted By iPod’s Appeal
10-23-07 Wired – Behind Enemy Lines With A Suburban Counterterrorist
10-23-07 Wired – The Best Conspiracy Theories
10-23-07 Wired – The Great Firewall
10-23-07 Wired – What’s Inside NyQuil, Fortified With Powerful Narcotics!
10-24-07 CIO Insight – Peripherals Sell The PC, Not Vice Versa
10-24-07 Technology Review – Decoding The Human Eye
10-25-07 Technology Review – Rating Facial Expressions
10-26-07 CIO Insight – 94 Million Credit Accounts Potentially Exposed
10-26-07 CIO Insight – Critical Business Information Goes Unsecured
10-26-07 CNN – NASA’s High-Tech Wildfire Weapons
10-26-07 eWeek – Google’s Reputation System Roils Web World
10-26-07 eWeek – Three Sentenced To Prison In Microsoft Fraud Case
10-26-07 eWeek – US Senate OKs 7-Year Internet Tax Ban Extension
10-26-07 eWeek – Valuable Business Information Going Unsecured
10-26-07 National Geographic News – Primates In Trouble
10-26-07 Technology Review – Next-Generation Sports Doping
10-26-07 Wired – IMAP, YouMAP, WeMAP Mail Protocol’s Proponents Argue For Better Support
10-28-07 Maui News – Board Urges Mandatory Cuts, But Water Director Holds Off
10-28-07 SFGate.com – Cepheid Inc. Of Sunnyvale To Help Defeat Dangerous ‘Superbug’
10-29-07 eWeek – New Group Joins Russians In Evil PDF Attack
10-29-07 eWeek – Price Of MIT Professor’s ‘$100 Laptop’ Hits $200
10-29-07 New York Times – Hulu Readies Its Online TV, Dodging The Insults
10-29-07 New York Times – Supreme Court To Review Damages In Oil Spill
10-30-07 New York Times – Study Looks At Suicide In Veterans
10-30-07 USA Today – Exercise Builds Strong Brains, Too
10-30-07 USA Today – Standardized High School Exit Exams Put States To The Test
10-31-07 eWeek – Google’s Dataspaces Technology Dings PageRank
10-31-07 eWeek – Tech Bills Advance In Congress
10-31-07 Los Angeles Times – Bogus E-mail Seeks Contributions For Fire Victims
10-31-07 San Jose Mercury News – Privacy Groups Challenge Social Networking Plans
10-31-07 Technology Review – Terabyte Storage For Cell Phones
10-31-07 USA Today – Fire Charges Considered Against Calif Boy
10-31-07 USA Today – Sex Offenders Claim Homeless Status, Bypass Calif Law
10-31-07 Wired – Privacy Groups Ask For Online ‘Do Not Track’ List

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September 2007 News

Posted by delta on 30th September 2007

09-01-07 BBC – US Court Allows Navy To Use Sonar
09-02-07 CNN – Iran ‘Reaches Nuclear Target’
09-02-07 New York Times – North Korea To Disable Nuclear Facilities By Year’s End, U.S. Says
09-06-07 Technology Review – Animation For The Masses
09-07-07 eWeek – Office Open XML Down But Not Out
09-10-07 Business Week – Apple Eyes The Wireless Auction
09-14-07 Business Week – How Solid Is Your Brand
09-14-07 CNN – The End Of Oil
09-14-07 Information Week – Hacker Gained Access To Data On Millions Of TD Ameritrade Customers
09-14-07 Information Week – SCO Bankrupt
09-14-07 Information Week – T.J. Maxx Fraud Ring Leader Gets Five Years In Prison
09-14-07 Information Week – Teen Drivers Banned From Using Mobile Phones In California
09-14-07 WebMD – Biking And Erectile Dysfunction
09-24-07 CNET – Businesses Falling Short On Data Disposal
09-25-07 CNET – Trojan Attack Targets Top Executives

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August 2007 News

Posted by delta on 16th August 2007

08-01-07 BBC – Russia Ahead In Arctic ‘Gold Rush’
08-03-07 BBC – Insurers Win Katrina Court Case
08-03-07 BBC – US Mortgage Lender Closing Down
08-03-07 BBC – Warning Of Webmail Wi-Fi Hijack
08-03-07 Computer World – IRS Security Vulnerable To Social Engineering
08-04-07 Information Week – Worm Threat Escalates
08-06-07 eWeek – Immunity Unleashes Automatic Exploit Tool
08-06-07 Technology Review – A 3-D View Of The Brain
08-06-07 Technology Review – Better Than High Definition
08-06-07 Time – Baby Einsteins Not So Smart After All
08-07-07 Information Week – IRS Employees Fail Password Audit
08-07-07 Information Week – JavaScript Flaws Ease Intranet Attacks
08-07-07 Information Week – U.S. Firm Says Outsourcer Holding Its Data Hostage Offshore
08-07-07 Information Week – VeriSign Worker Fired After Laptop, Employee Info Are Stolen
08-07-07 Internet News – Internet Pioneer Rolls Out Faster, Greener Router
08-07-07 Technology Review – Seals Gather New Ocean Data
08-08-07 WebMD – Move It! New Exercise Guidelines
08-10-07 Time – How A U.S. Credit Crunch Went Global
08-15-07 Business Week – Why Wi-Fi Networks Are Floundering
08-15-07 CNN – Ocean’s ‘Missing Link’ Discovered
08-15-07 Information Week – T.J. Maxx Security Breach Costs Soar To 10 Times Earlier Estimate
08-15-07 Time – What Your Cell Knows About You
08-16-07 Washington Post – Home Construction Down In July
08-17-07 eWeek – Trojan Hidden On Job Search Sites Steals Personal Data
08-17-07 Information Week – Government Busts Identity Theft Ring
08-17-07 Information Week – Phony Ad On Job Sites Leads To 100,000 Stolen Identities
08-17-07 Time – Trying To Save The Coral Reefs
08-20-07 Business Week – Did Big Lenders Cross The Line
08-22-07 eWeek – Spam Spreads Storm Trojan Across Internet
08-22-07 Forbes – America’s Hackable Backbone
08-24-07 BBC – Millions Hit By Monster Site Hack
08-24-07 Business Week – Sprint The Provider That Won’t Go Away
08-24-07 eWeek – Monster Took 5 Days To Disclose Data Theft
08-24-07 Information Week – ‘Money Mules’ Increasingly A Cog In Cybercrime Underground
08-24-07 Information Week – World’s Highest-Resolution Computer Display
08-27-07 Time – Global Warming’s Next Victim Wheat
08-28-07 Information Week – Data Losses Can Harm A Business Brand
08-30-07 The Seattle Times – Justice Department Declares Victory In Microsoft Antitrust Case
08-31-07 CNN – Inside The Nuclear Underworld Deformity And Fear

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July 2007 News

Posted by delta on 31st July 2007

07-02-07 Business Week – MySpace, Facebook A Tale Of Two Cultures
07-02-07 Business Week – Taking The iPhone Apart
07-02-07 CNET – Top Executives Face Personalized E-Mail Attacks
07-03-07 BBC – Blackstone Buys Hilton For $26bn
07-03-07 BBC – Mexican ‘World’s Richest Person’
07-06-07 eWeek – Norwegian Hacker Says He Can Bypass AT&T On iPhone
07-10-07 BBC – Sausage Additive Linked To Cancer
07-10-07 BBC – U.S. Could Approve Clones As Food
07-10-07 Economist – Oil An Unwelcome Rise
07-11-07 Baltimore Sun – Allied Kept Mum On Arsenic
07-11-07 Business Week – More Heartache For Housing
07-11-07 CNN – $80 Oil Lurks
07-11-07 CNN – Bogus Company Got License For Nuke Materials
07-11-07 Yahoo! – Kids Living Near School Rarely Walk There
07-11-07 ZDNet – Mac OSX With 100 Bugs Still Safer Than Windows
07-12-07 Baltimore Sun – Nanotechnology Can Be Found In Everyday Products
07-12-07 BBC – Royalty Fee ‘To Damage Net Radio’
07-12-07 Information Week – Bots Helped To Boost Microsoft Live Search Gains
07-12-07 Information Week – Criminals Google ‘How To Open Safe’ In Middle Of Burglary
07-12-07 Information Week – Secret Service Busts Four Fraudsters With Ties To T.J. Maxx Attack
07-12-07 Information Week – Who’s Fighting Identity Theft
07-12-07 New York Times – For Athletes, An Invisible Traffic Hazard
07-12-07 Time – Russia Claims The North Pole
07-12-07 Washington Post – Site Plans To Sell Hacks To Highest Bidder
07-12-07 Washington Post – Sting Reveals Security Gap At Nuclear Agency
07-12-07 WebMD – Italian Diet Secrets
07-12-07 Wired – The Evolutionary Brain Glitch That Makes Terrorism Fail
07-13-07 BBC – The Fight Against Net Crime
07-13-07 Internet News – Bad Week For Wireless Incumbents
07-13-07 Internet News – Now PDF Is The Format For Spam Delivery
07-14-07 Information Week – The Data Theft Time Bomb
07-15-07 Washington Post – Climate Change Debate Hinges On Economics
07-16-07 BBC – Global Broadband Prices Revealed
07-16-07 CNET – Wireless USB Gadgets Trickle Into Marketplace
07-16-07 Computer World – An Enterprise PC Shop Switches To Apple
07-16-07 Computer World – No Breakthrough Yet In Efforts To Unlock The iPhone
07-16-07 Forbes – The Top Countries For Cybercrime
07-16-07 Information Week – Criminals Using Botnet To Attack iPhone Buyers
07-16-07 Information Week – The Threat Within
07-16-07 Washington Post – DHS Plagued By Turnover In Top Positions
07-16-07 Wired – Emotion-Recognition Software Knows What Makes You Smile
07-19-07 Business Week – Clearwire And Sprint Racing Ahead
07-20-07 Business Week – Google May Bid Billions On Wireless
07-23-07 News.com – Feds Scramble To Meet Data Breach Deadline
07-24-07 eWeek – Congress P2P Networks Harm National Security
07-24-07 Information Week – Storm Worm Erupts Into Worst Virus Attack In 2 Years
07-25-07 Business Week – The New Wireless Playing Field
07-25-07 Time – Obesity Is Contagious
07-27-07 Business Week – Sprint Nextel Last In CustomerService
07-27-07 Technology Review – Building A Better Search Engine
07-27-07 Technology Review – Thin Film’s Time In The Sun
07-31-07 Computer Shopper – Wisair Launches New Wireless USB Chips
07-31-07 eWeek – A Google Wireless Auction Win Will Let Freedom Ring

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June 2007 News

Posted by delta on 30th June 2007

06-01-07 BBC – EU ‘Must Walk Its Climate Talk’
06-03-07 BBC – Nations Meet To Protect Wildlife
06-04-07 BBC – UN Warning Over Global Ice Loss
06-04-07 Business Week – Faking Out The Fakers
06-04-07 Business Week – Why Gas Prices Will Stay High
06-04-07 Seeking Alpha – Apple And Google Technology’s New Leadership
06-04-07 Technology Review – 3-D Web Surfing From SpaceTime
06-04-07 Wired – Cyber Laws To Crack Down On Botnets, Spyware
06-05-07 Information Week – 40% Don’t Monitor Databases
06-05-07 Information Week – Public In The Dark About 95% Of Software Bugs
06-06-07 BBC – Censorship ‘Changes Face Of Net’
06-06-07 Computer World – Retailers Urge Caution In Drafting Of Federal Data Breach Law
06-06-07 Reuters – House Approves Second, Stricter Anti-Spyware Bill
06-06-07 Washington Post – Copyright Silliness On Campus
06-07-07 Business Week – Powermat Cuts The Cord
06-07-07 Technology Review – New Batteries Readied For GM’s Electric Vehicle
06-08-07 Technology Review – A Wirelessly Powered Lightbulb
06-11-07 Technology Review – Plastic That Heals Itself
06-13-07 BBC – US House Passes Gun Control Bill
06-14-07 BBC – Child Obesity ‘A Form Of Neglect’
06-14-07 BBC – FBI Tries To Fight Zombie Hordes
06-14-07 eWeek – Linux Leaders Plot Counterattack On Microsoft
06-14-07 Information Week – Cyberattack Fools You Once, Evades Detection
06-14-07 Information Week – Sprint, Clearwire Reportedly In Talks
06-14-07 Yahoo! – Clearwire In Wireless Pact With DirecTV, EchoStar
06-15-07 Information Week – Apple Claims More Than 1 Million Downloads Of Safari For Windows
06-15-07 Internet News – Four Bot Herders Get Put Out To Pasture
06-15-07 Internet News – Internet Sales Tax Movement Lagging
06-20-07 CNET – Homeland Security IT Chief Blamed For Cyberwoes
06-22-07 BBC – Cyber Attack On Pentagon E-mail
06-26-07 BBC – Two-Tiered Net Could Be Coming
06-26-07 Business Week – The Worth Of Open Source
06-27-07 BBC – Private-Eye Hackers Are Convicted
06-27-07 CNN – Screening System Protects Ports From Deadly Cargo
06-28-07 CNET – National ID Plan May Have Killed Immigration Bill
06-28-07 Time – New Dangers Of Secondhand Smoke
06-30-07 Time – “I Take The iPhone Home”

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