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Airline attack could lead to more scanners (AP)

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AP – The Christmas Day attack on a jetliner over Detroit, combined with technological improvements to protect people’s sense of modesty, could lead to dramatically wider use of full-body scanners that can see through travelers’ clothing.

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Review: No more writing checks in lifestyle change (AP)

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AP – It’s been nine months since I’ve written a check.

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Questions and answers about full-body scanners (AP)

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AP – Travelers still getting used to removing their shoes in public and pouring shampoo into tiny bottles may soon have to adjust to something new in the airport security line — giant machines that that scan their bodies for anything a terrorist might use to cause harm during a flight.

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Football, `Simpsons’ at risk in Fox cable dispute (AP)

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AP – Bart Simpson and the Sugar Bowl game could disappear from the TVs of Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and other markets in a bitter dispute over fees that the Fox television network is demanding.

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Hacker pleads guilty in Mass. to fraud case (AP)

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AP – A computer hacker who helped orchestrate the theft of tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major retailers in one of the largest such thefts in U.S. history pleaded guilty Tuesday in the last of three cases brought by federal prosecutors.
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‘Don’t-be-evil’ Google spurns no-evil software

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One open-source software programmer’s joke–’The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil’–is a serious matter at Google.
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Mozilla pushes back Firefox 3.6, 4.0 deadlines

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The newest version of the open-source browser won’t arrive this year, and a major update might not arrive until 2011. But there are plenty of features coming.
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Unannounced HP 210 Netbook ‘in stock’

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Reseller eCost lists the Mini 210, which packs Intel’s newest Atom N450 silicon, at $389. And even HP has jumped the gun.
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Nokia hits Apple with latest patent complaint

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The Finnish company alleges that Apple infringes seven Nokia patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers.”
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Verizon sees rise of ’slate’ computers in 2010

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The wireless communications giant is looking closely at tablet and Netbook computers and whether it could market them.
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