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A Twitter account can be used as the command center for harnessing a “botnet” of virus-infected computers, security firms Arbor Networks and Symantec reported. In a blog post Friday , Symantec analyst Peter Coogan wrote that researchers found an account, @upd4t3, which was tweeting out links to download a piece malware called Downloader.Sninfs. The account has since been suspended by Twitter.

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Security firms discover botnet on Twitter

Marc Andreessen is throwing down the browser gauntlet once again.

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Marc Andreessen Backs RockMelt Browser Venture

The video-game industry isn’t recession-proof after all. One of the latest victims of falling retail sales, the industry is continuing its downward spiral.

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Video-Game Sales Continue Tailspin in July

A judge ruled Wednesday that the Alaska governor’s office can use private e-mail accounts to conduct state business, as former Gov. Sarah Palin sometimes did. Superior Court Judge Jack W.

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Judge Rules in Palin E-Mail Case

Chinese Internet users will not be forced to install the controversial Green Dam Internet filtering software, a top official said Thursday. While the installation of the software on computers in public places including schools and Internet cafés would proceed, consumers would be free to choose whether or not to install the filter, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua news agency. Li’s comments are the strongest indicator yet that the government has abandoned original plans to make the filter compulsory.

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China’s Green Dam Internet Filter ‘Not Compulsory’

Proposals are due Friday for the first of three rounds of funding for federal broadband stimulus projects aimed at driving broadband into underserved parts of America. Already, there’s a lot of griping about the $7.2 billion program

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Plans for Fast Links in Rural Areas Due

Google’s Hal Varian would likely have raised an eyebrow at a term paper submitted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the search market. Varian, currently on leave from the University of California at Berkeley to serve as Google’s chief economist, thinks a lot of the arguments advanced by Microsoft in justifying its 10-year deal for Yahoo search are, in a word, “bogus.” Microsoft has said that it needs “scale” to compete in the search market against Google, saying that larger amounts of traffic and data allow it to improve the quality of its search experience.

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Google’s Varian: Search scale is ‘bogus’

People calling for better e-mail search on the iPhone are getting a possible answer: reMail. The software app downloads e-mail to your iPhone or iPod touch and lets you search the full text of the copy — even offline. The app sells for $9.99, but the developer has it on sale for $4.99 through Sept.

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reMail Searches Text in E-Mail on iPhone, iPod Touch

TuneWiki is one of the most ambitious social music projects we’ve seen.

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TuneWiki: Stream song lyrics from Windows Media Player

A sampling of Yahoo's new display ad templates. (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) Yahoo is hoping to make it easier for small companies enamored with search advertising to consider display ads. The company rolled out Yahoo My Display Ads Monday , which it described as “self-serve display ads” for advertisers that can’t necessarily justify a creative department or consulting firm to design display ads for their business.

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Yahoo rolling out DIY display ads