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Do Facebook's Social Ads breach privacy laws?

US privacy advocates are questioning Facebook's latest revenue spinner, Social Ads, for possibly breaching 19th century laws designed to protect celebrities from being exploited in print media. Read more »

Source code standoff in breathalyzer case

Minnesota authorities have missed a court-imposed deadline for turning over the source code for a breath-testing machine at the heart of a a high-profile dispute that recently made it to the state's Supreme Court. Read more »

California eyes OpenDocument

California may follow Massachusetts in making the OpenDocument Format the required standard for state agencies. Read more »

More US states mull OpenDocument move

Minnesota and Texas may become the next US states to adopt the OpenDocument Format as the required standard for their agencies, thanks to two state bills currently up for vote. Read more »

A formula for procrastination

Can you assign a formula to putting off to tomorrow what you can do today? One professor believes you can. Read more »

IT pioneer William Norris dies at 95

William C. Norris, who founded the giant mainframe company Control Data and made the first commercial supercomputer, has died at the age of 95. Read more »

Turning Wine into Windows on a Mac

It used to be that running Windows programs on a Mac was a slow, painful process. There was only one option: running Virtual PC emulation software. Read more »

Microsoft--forget PR, clean up the code

Have you noticed that Microsoft is on the offensive? After countless months of reading press clippings about the pathetic state of Windows security, the folks in Redmond have decided to fight back with one of their strongest weapons--public relations. Read more »

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You don't need a job to build your resume

Builder.com has put together this list of opportunities you can pursue and projects you can work on to round out your resume with some impressive line items that will give potential employers a reason to look twice. Read more »

Using personality tests

In addition to testing for technical skill, some companies use personality to identify suitable candidates. Read more to learn about types of tests. Read more »

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    This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Staff Google launches Apps Marketplace

    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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