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Privacy advocate praises Google's new link
Company's decision to add a link to its home page that leads to its Privacy Center is enough to quell a controversy.
Photos: Army designates year's best inventions
Every year, the U.S. Army designates a set of top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers.
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
CNET Reviews rates the Garmin Nuvi 880 car GPS gadget, a Panasonic Viera flat-screen TV, the Asus Eee PC 901 laptop, and more.
Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal
Fourth-ranked search engine completes its acquisition of the parent company of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
1 euro eBay baby goes home
Parents had put their baby boy up for sale on eBay--apparently as a joke--but German authorities didn't find it particularly amusing.
VeriSign names interim CEO
Company's founder takes the place of the CEO and president, who resigned abruptly earlier this week.
Week in review: Microhoogle intrigue
Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are facing probes, proxies, and accusations of backroom politicking as their various attempts to link up come under scrutiny. Also: searching for content within Flash is becoming easier.
Photos: Up close with the Blue Angels
News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman visits Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola, home of the Blue Angels.
Photos: Cracking Open the Apple Macintosh Classic
TechRepublic examines just what went into one of the most famous personal computers ever manufactured--and what tech was like in 1991.
At home with the Blue Angels
During a visit to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman gets to see the high-performance pilots up close.
Japanese Shell subsidiary plans solar-panel plant
Oil company turns to the sun, with plans to build a factory manufacturing thin-film solar panels with a cumulative yearly power generation capacity of 1 gigawatt.
EA debuts new family, sports games for Wii, PlayStation
After its pairing with board game maker Hasbro, EA shows off its new family-oriented games and an "All-Play" series for Wii.
Video: Latest in Viacom-Google lawsuit raises questions
News.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom.
Researcher faults Apple iPhone on security updates
He says iPhone, still at version 1.1.4, is at least four months behind desktop OS in patching many known Mac OS X security vulnerabilities.
Google RatProxy looks for cross-site flaws
Free tool helps Web developers analyze their site for a variety of cross-site vulnerabilities.
Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own online
On Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the latest development in the Google-Viacom lawsuit.
News.com Daily Podcast: Should YouTube users worry about privacy?
How engineering is helping revive post-Katrina New Orleans; Google and Viacom battle over user privacy; and what Microsoft has to do with the Facebook and ConnectU legal battle.
Hundreds of Lithuanian Web sites defaced
Loosely affiliated supporters mount an online protest over new laws in Lithuania banning the display of Soviet symbols.
Mozilla and Opera fix security flaws
Opera updates its most recent release, while Mozilla continues to support an older version of Firefox with updates.
EIC Squared: Indexing Flash; Powerset; and Viacom vs. Google
On this week's EIC Squared podcast, CNET News.com's Dan Farber and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discuss the week's big stories.
Four security bulletins expected on Patch Tuesday
The four, which will be released next week, are considered important, not critical, says Microsoft.
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