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  Can P2P coexist with network security?

  Following congressional complaints about data leaks, file-sharing software providers are modifying their apps to make them safer for use in enterprises.

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  TSMC deal: A glimpse
  of Intel's future

  An accord struck this week will be a test of Intel's ability to compete in a crucial market outside its home PC turf: smartphones.

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• Teen-created Muziic likely to irk YouTube

  Muziic is a new music service that harnesses all of YouTube's music and controls it through an iTunes-like interface. But is it legal?

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Schmidt: Google 'unlikely' to buy Twitter soon

  Search giant's CEO declines to address an acquisition of the micro-blogging site, saying the company has plenty of money but prices are too high.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

• Wolfram Alpha: Next major search breakthrough?

  Stephen Wolfram has come up with a new and potentially revolutionary search paradigm for finding answers via the Web.

  (Posted in Outside the Lines by Dan Farber)

• When everyone's a friend, is anything private?

  The popularity of Facebook and other social-networking sites has promoted the sharing of all things personal, dissolving the line that separates the private from the public.
  (From The New York Times)

• Gates foundation sells off Buffett shares

  The private foundation lets go of more than 36,000 shares of Berkshire Hathaway, bringing in nearly $100 million.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Natalie Weinstein)

• Can Spice Girls make music with iPhones?

  I'll wager they can't, but all-female Brit band The Mentalists certainly can. Using software from the iPhone App Store, the group makes music using nothing but their handsets.
  • More free on-demand audio with Muziic
  • Former Eminem producers lose royalty decision

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Kepler starts mission to detect other Earths

  NASA's spacecraft launches successfully, as it begins its three-and-a-half-year mission to discover planets like the one it just left.
  • Images: NASA's Kepler to seek Earth-like planets
  • Pluto is a planet again! (in Illinois)

  (Posted in Cutting Edge by CBS Interactive staff)

• Utility AEP plans backyard energy storage

  Will energy storage on the power grid be more a giant mainframe computer or a small PC? A U.S. utility company will try small-scale, distributed storage later this year.
  • Swedish utility targets carbon-neutral electricity

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Did Apple OK price cut on latest MacBook Air?

  The price on the high-end version of the latest MacBook Air has been cut at resellers.
  • Apple denies second round of layoff rumors

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

• Cybersecurity official quits, blasts NSA power grab

  Rod Beckström, director of Homeland Security's secretive National Cybersecurity Center, says folding his group into the National Security Agency would endanger "our democratic processes."
  • Lawmaker: Consumers need data breach details
  • Can P2P coexist with network security?
  • Biggest-ever Internet piracy bust claimed in Sweden
  • Expert: Twitter accounts hijacked in new attack

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)

• Photos: Automotive design revs up in Geneva

  Take a spin through the array of concept cars and sleek new rides rolled out at the high-profile auto show in the Alps.
  • More from Geneva auto show

• Examining Amazon's games trade-in program

  Amazon's latest move into the games re-sale business has sent a message to competitors. It means business. What does Amazon's program do right and wrong?

  (Posted in Gaming and Culture by Josh Lowensohn)

• Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

  Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the new iMacs, the LG Versa, and the Roku Digital Video Player.
  • Week in review: Apple hardware harvest

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