AP - When swine flu broke out, the government revved up a massive information campaign centered on three words: Wash your hands.

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Cybersecurity starts at home and in the office
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AP - The number of young kids online is growing faster than their parents and older siblings.

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Nielsen: Kids spending more time online
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AP - Microsoft Corp.

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Microsoft warns of serious computer security hole
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AP - Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed.

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Companies pledge more openness about Web tracking
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AP - Scott Painter makes his living betting on startup companies, having played a role in launching 29 of them over the years. But with the bad economy choking initial public offerings and acquisitions, Painter is now backing an idea that makes it easier for insiders like him to sell shares in their companies even before they go public.

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Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale - privately
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AP - Hollywood calls it “rent, rip and return” and contends it’s one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry’s annual $20 billion DVD market — software that allows you to copy a film without paying for it.

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Hollywood, RealNetworks square off on DVD copying
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AP - Google Inc. said Monday it will block U.K

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YouTube blocks UK users from watching music videos
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AP - A single check box deep in the guts of the next version of Windows is giving Microsoft Corp. watchers a peek at how the software maker plans to keep European antitrust regulators from marring a crucial software launch.

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Microsoft to let PC users turn off IE Web browser
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Reuters - The U.S. government’s director for cybersecurity resigned on Friday, criticizing the excessive role of the National Security Agency in countering threats to the country’s computer systems.

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Cybersecurity chief Beckstrom resigns
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AP - Computer users doing Google searches during a nearly one-hour period Saturday morning were greeted with disturbing but erroneous messages that every site turned up in the results might be harmful.

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Google users get bogus warning on site searches
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