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Today's Technology News: AP Exclusive: `Smart' meters have security holes AT&T will take $1B non-cash charge for health care Big-time hacker from Miami sentenced in 3rd case NY town angry over Net slurs at suicide victim Brocade's ex-CEO convicted in stock options case Verizon winds down expensive FiOS expansion Google goes it alone in China censorship fight Aurora Feint: 'Freemium' games to help drive iPhone gaming growth Nokia Buys Novarra, Will Give Mobile Web More Zing Outages Take YouTube, Wikipedia and Twitter Off-Line A virtual farm turns new ground for game developers iPad Rumor Mill Keeps on Churning Before Launch RIM Buys Mobile Software Developer Viigo After DNS Problem, Chinese Root Server Is Shut Down Hacker Gonzalez Sentenced to 20 Years for Exploits Ownership of Unix copyrights in hands of Utah jury Report: Apple gets iPad trademark from Fujitsu AP Exclusive: `Smart' meters have security holes Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:19 am PDT AP - Computer-security researchers say new "smart" meters that are designed to help deliver electricity more efficiently also have flaws that could let hackers tamper with the power grid in previously impossible ways. Full Story Top AT&T will take $1B non-cash charge for health care Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:43 pm PDT AP - AT&T Inc. will take a $1 billion non-cash accounting charge in the first quarter because of the health care overhaul and may cut benefits it offers to current and retired workers. Full Story Top Big-time hacker from Miami sentenced in 3rd case Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:06 pm PDT AP - For the second time in as many days, a computer hacker accused of one of the largest-ever thefts of credit and debit card numbers stood before a federal judge and apologized for his actions. Full Story Top NY town angry over Net slurs at suicide victim Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:45 pm PDT AP - A community reeling from the suicide of a popular high school senior turned its sorrow to outrage Friday over a practice known as "trolling," in which derogatory, hurtful comments are posted online against a person. Full Story Top Brocade's ex-CEO convicted in stock options case Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:09 pm PDT AP - The former chief executive of networking gear maker Brocade Communications Inc. was convicted Friday of felony charges connected to backdating stock options. Full Story Top Verizon winds down expensive FiOS expansion Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:41 am PDT AP - If Verizon Communications Inc. hasn't already started wiring your city or town with its FiOS fiber-optic TV and broadband service, chances are you won't get it. Full Story Top Google goes it alone in China censorship fight Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:53 pm PDT AFP - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a major speech on Internet freedom two months ago, called on US technology firms not to support online censorship. Full Story Top Aurora Feint: 'Freemium' games to help drive iPhone gaming growth Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:45 am PDT Macworld.com - Many people seem to agree that the iPhone should continue to make a big dent in the mobile gaming market. Just how big a dent, however, is in dispute, particularly when it comes to the potential impact of free-to-play games. Full Story Top Nokia Buys Novarra, Will Give Mobile Web More Zing Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:30 am PDT NewsFactor - Nokia said Friday that it is acquiring mobile-browser and service-platform provider Novarra in a deal that is expected to close in the second quarter. Following the acquisition, Novarra will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokia. The financial terms were not disclosed. Full Story Top Outages Take YouTube, Wikipedia and Twitter Off-Line Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:40 pm PDT NewsFactor - Many years after the Y2K scare that left the world wondering if the Internet would crash as we entered the 21st century, two of the web's most popular sites have gone off-line this week alone. YouTube and Wikipedia both went dark on Thursday. Twitter went down last week. Full Story Top A virtual farm turns new ground for game developers Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:00 am PDT Reuters - A virtual farm attracting up to 83 million aspiring farmers monthly has video game developers scrambling to find ways to plough the booming popularity of games on social networks. Full Story Top iPad Rumor Mill Keeps on Churning Before Launch Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:15 pm PDT NewsFactor - The iPad is set to debut on April 3. Until then, the rumor mills will churn about what to expect from apps, what will come pre-loaded on the tablet device, what apps will ultimately cost -- and predictions that the iPad will kill the netbook and e-book readers. Full Story Top RIM Buys Mobile Software Developer Viigo Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:10 pm PDT PC World - Research In Motion has purchased Viigo, a developer of software that delivers syndicated content to mobile phones, according to a brief note on Viigo's Web site. Full Story Top After DNS Problem, Chinese Root Server Is Shut Down Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:10 pm PDT PC World - A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet. Full Story Top Hacker Gonzalez Sentenced to 20 Years for Exploits Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:13 am PDT PC World - Hacker Albert Gonzalez, who participated in a cybercrime ring that stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to 20 years in prison. Full Story Top Ownership of Unix copyrights in hands of Utah jury Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:27 pm PDT AP - A Salt Lake City jury has started deliberations in a case pitting two software companies that each claim ownership of the Unix computer operating systems used by large corporations. Full Story Top Report: Apple gets iPad trademark from Fujitsu Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:41 pm PDT Macworld.com - In a week’s time, Apple will have a new tablet on its way to a retail shelf near you. But it can already lay claim to something else iPad-related—the trademark to the name. That’s according to a report posted Friday at PatentAuthority.com, which says that Apple has bought the iPad trademark from Fujitsu. Full Story Top

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