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  Second Life strives
  for a second wind

  Linden Lab, maker of the iconic virtual world, gets a reality check in the form of a major executive shake-up. And that's a good thing.

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  Tax season brings phishing, other scams

  As April 15 approaches, security experts say beware of scams and fake tax-filing Web sites and tax prep software.

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• CompUSA 2.0

  The retailer went bankrupt in late 2007, but the new owner is trying to revive the brand.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Erica Ogg)

• Conficker also installs fake antivirus software

  In addition to dropping a mystery payload on infected machines, the Conficker worm installs software that tries to dupe people into paying nearly $50 for fake antivirus software.

  (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills)

• Google Book settlement faces legal assault

  The Google Books settlement has not only brought new attention to the issue of orphaned works. It's also brought a set of legal attempts to derail it.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• Microsoft pulls plug on campus bar

  The software maker was planning opening a bar on its campus. But with the economy headed in the tank, Microsoft has decided not to let its workers follow.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• AT&T increases bounty on fiber vandals to $250K

  Company is offering a reward of $250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals involved in cutting its fiber-optic cables in Silicon Valley.

  (Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

• March search share: Google up, rivals down

  Google claimed 64 percent of the U.S. search market in March, with growth that outpaced the overall market.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Stephen Shankland)

• Hotmail users suffer through outage

  A worldwide outage struck Microsoft's e-mail service for two hours Thursday night. Welcome to the club.

  (Posted in Webware by Stephen Shankland)

• Sun VP Fowler talks about 'classic' rival IBM

  John Fowler, the company's executive vice president, talks about IBM as a competitor in the wake of reported merger talks with Big Blue.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Sites can block the DiggBar, but is it worth it?

  Publishers are biting back against Digg's software free toolbar and link shortening service, but is it really such a bad thing? We dig in.

  (Posted in Webware by Josh Lowensohn)

• Report: Ex-Motorola CFO claims company inflated forecasts

  Paul Liska, who left Motorola in February, is reportedly suing the company claiming it fired him when he tried to report inflated forecasts to upper management.

  (Posted in Wireless by Tom Krazit)

• Q&A: Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov

  Liskov talks about software design, her current research interests, and issues from data breaches and cloud computing to the relative lack of women in the IT industry.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Natasha Lomas)

• New York church brings Good Friday to Twitter

  Trinity Wall Street, a tech-savvy Episcopal church in downtown Manhattan, has created a Twitter account that stages the story of Jesus' crucifixion.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Service restored in Silicon Valley after fiber cut

  AT&T said that service is back up in the San Jose, Calif., area after four of the company's four fiber-optic cables there were cut on Thursday.
  • AT&T uses Twitter during service outage
  • Vandals blamed for phone and Internet outage

  (Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)
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