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  Verizon changes
  tune on Wi-Fi

  After years of downplaying Wi-Fi use outside the home, the carrier partners with Boingo to offer free Wi-Fi access to its high-speed broadband customers on the go.
  • Weak economy hurts Verizon's earnings

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  A brief history
  of the USAF arsenal

  photos At the Hill Aerospace Museum in Utah, visitors can see a wide range of planes, from the Flying Boxcar to the B1 bomber.
  • Full Road Trip coverage

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• Design ideas show Firefox 4.0 with a Chrome look

  A Mozilla mockup for Firefox 4.0 raises the possibility of a very Chrome-like interface for the browser.

  (Posted in Webware by Stephen Shankland)

• Microsoft says security programs are paying off

  Company releases progress report on three programs launched a year ago to identify security holes and patch them faster.

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)

• Rival Twitter aggregator apps square off

  One third-party site, TweetMeme, claims that a yet-to-launch competitor called ReTweet isn't just similar--it's accusing ReTweet of ripping off its code.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• The good and bad of Google Latitude on iPhone

  We give Google Latitude for iPhone a spin over the weekend. How did it fare as a Web app as opposed to a native application? Read on to find out.

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)

• Western Digital releases 1TB laptop hard drive

  Company's new hardware significantly shrinks the storage-capacity gap between notebook and desktop drives.

  (Posted in Crave by Dong Ngo)

• Will this be the week for Microhoo?

  Ad Age's magic 8-ball says that "signs point to yes." That said, we've all been down this road before. Take it with a grain of salt, if your shaker isn't already empty.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• iPhone maker in China under fire after suicide

  Foxconn opens up a bit following the death of a 25-year-old worker who had been accused of stealing an iPhone prototype.
  (From The New York Times)

• Nissan unveils all-electric sedan prototype

  EV platform, which promises a 100-mile range and online services to find charging stations, is large plank of an efficiency strategy to be further detailed next week.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Labels to serve digital albums to iTunes rivals

  The biggest recording companies plan to release their own type of interactive album that may end up competing with Apple's version, code-named Cocktail.
  • Report: Apple, labels mixing musical 'Cocktail'

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• AT&T said to block 4chan; pranksters fight back

  After AT&T's broadband customers began reporting they couldn't access the forum site, a fake report surfaced on CNN's iReport alleging that AT&T's CEO was dead.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Images: Tech timetable to 2012 Olympics

  Company overseeing the tech for the London 2012 Olympic Games reveals how it's warming up in preparation for the starter's gun.

• Joule adds CO2 to sunlight to make fuel

  Two-year-old Joule Biotechnologies introduces its synthetic biology technology that uses engineered microorganisms to make ethanol from sunlight and carbon dioxide.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Astronauts in home stretch of marathon mission

  Endeavour astronauts are preparing for a fifth and final spacewalk Monday before departing the International Space Station Tuesday after an 'extremely successful' mission.
  • Dinner for 13, minus gravity

  (Posted in The Space Shot by William Harwood)
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