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IRS Helps Bust 105 People in Massive Identity Theft Crackdown

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IRS Helps Bust 105 People in Massive Identity Theft Crackdown The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice teamed up for a coast-to-coast crackdown on identity thieves this week.
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Apple Boycott Urged Over Foxconn Investigation Reports of mistreatment of workers at the company's manufacturing chain are prompting inquiries and objections.
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5 Key Points From Google's Privacy-Policy Letter to Congress Google sent a 13-page letter to Congress this week that can be summarized in a single sentence: "We're not being evil."
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Brain Waves to Words: Breakthrough Lets Scientists (Almost) Hear What You're Thinking A new program allows neuroscientists to translate brain waves into recognizable words.
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Windows 8: 13 Features Worth Knowing About Windows 8 will introduce a slew of interesting features, but will they benefit you?
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Is Google Evil? The Jury Is Out Google's changes to its privacy policy should have been expected. It's what any corporation intent on maximizing value would do. But does that make it right?
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Is the Use of Sites Like MegaUpload Sinking the Arts Ship? Not So Fast, Says New Advocate Study A new study argues that artists are thriving and companies that adapt to new methods could thrive also.
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For Sony's New CEO, a Big Challenge is in Your Living Room Sony's new CEO faces a myriad of problems -- stemming massive losses, snatching the momentum back from deep-pocketed rivals, unifying his firm's diffuse businesses.
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Sony's Hirai, Executive Who Led PlayStation Turnaround, Promoted to CEO Sony said Wednesday that executive Kazuo Hirai, who runs the company's core consumer products division, will be promoted to CEO and President from April.
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Kinect for Windows Available Now for $250 Microsoft has launched a Kinect commercial software development kit that will allow developers to sell their creations for the first time.
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Prison Sentences in Pirate Bay Trial Made Final as Supreme Court Refuses Hearing The Swedish Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal from the founders of The Pirate Bay against prison sentences and fines.
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Beware of 'Remove Timeline' Facebook Scams There's no way to remove the Facebook Timeline once you've switched over--so be wary of any website or app that claims otherwise.
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Firefox 10 Relieves Add-On Updating Pain Mozilla today patched eight vulnerabilities in Firefox as it shipped the latest iteration in its rapid release schedule.
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RFID Credit Cards Are Easy Prey for Hackers, Demo Shows With a simple hack and minimal equipment, a security researcher demonstrates how easily thieves can make your data their own.
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Samsung Galaxy S III Won't be Unveiled at Mobile World Congress Samsung plans to unveil the successor to its best-selling device at a separate event in the first half of the year.
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Symantec Clears pcAnywhere for Use The security vendor took the unusual step of urging users to disable the program after claims that a hacker group was mining stolen source code for vulnerabilities.
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Twitter's Time: Campaign Season? Political candidates who want traction in this year's election had better use Twitter, says the microblog's CEO.
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Steve Jobs Imitator with Angel Wings Promotes Taiwanese Tablet The Jobs character introduces the Action Pad tablet, which is from a Taiwanese company called Action Electronics.
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Hey Hey, My My: MP3, It's Time to Die Rocker Neil Young trashes the quality of today's MP3 format; calls for a new high-quality digital download for serious audiophiles.
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London Calling With RIM BlackBerry 10 Smartphone Research in Motion's incipient BlackBerry 10 smartphone, code-named London, has a thin and long design, according a photo obtained by CrackBerry.com.
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