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  Windows 7 pricing,
  upgrade programs set

  Software maker will let consumers preorder Windows 7 at a big discount, while offering permanent prices at or below the retail prices for Windows Vista.
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  What happened
  to the Red Planet?

  road trip University of Colorado is studying whether changes in Mars' atmosphere affected its ability to support life.
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• iPhone app goes topless

  With Apple's apparent approval, the developer of the iPhone/iPod Touch app "Hottest Girls" uploaded topless photos to the 17+-rated app.

  (Posted in iPhone Atlas by David Carnoy)

• Green Dam exploit in the wild

  A buffer overflow exploit for the Chinese censorware is circulating online, as university researchers warn the software remains vulnerable to a flaw.

  (Posted in Security by Tom Espiner)

• Road test shows texting slows reaction time

  A test conducted by Car & Driver magazine included reading texts, writing texts, and then drunk driving to see the effects on two actual men behind the wheel. The results aren't pretty.

  (Posted in Wireless by Lance Whitney)

• Showtime for Yahoo's Bartz

  One year after a raucous annual meeting, things should be quieter for Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz at Thursday's shareholder meeting. Still, they'll want to know the plan.

  (Posted in Webware by Tom Krazit)

• Twitter search sites: 3 best and all the rest

  When you want to know what's happening on the Web right now, Google won't cut it. These sites will.

  (Posted in Webware by Rafe Needleman)

• U.K. cybersecurity office to have attack role

  In extreme cases, a government official says, the U.K. would launch a cyberattack in response to intrusions into its own systems.

  (Posted in Security by Tom Espiner)

• Apple iPhone 3GS: The sum ($) of its parts

  iPhone 3GS carries $178.96 bill of materials and manufacturing cost, iSuppli teardown reveals.

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

• Will more competition finally mean better TV?

  Everyone from the the cable companies to the phone companies want you to subscribe to their networks. That's good...probably.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Marguerite Reardon)

• VC's automated Twitter feed spreads malware

  Auto-feed tweet distributed by Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account sends people to a link that installs a Trojan.

  (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills)

• Microsoft defends Outlook HTML decision

  A Twitter campaign to overturn Microsoft's choice to use Word to render HTML in Outlook has caught the software giant's attention, but don't expect changes.

  (Posted in Microsoft by Stephen Shankland)

• Adobe's Flash to ship on new Android phone

  Adobe gains an important mobile-phone beachhead for its Flash technology: HTC's upcoming Android-powered Hero phone due to start shipping next month.

  (Posted in Wireless by Stephen Shankland)

• Buffett: Apple should have disclosed Jobs' surgery

  Warren Buffett says in a TV interview that a liver transplant is "material fact" that should be communicated to Apple investors.

  (Posted in Apple by Erica Ogg)

• Facebook wants you to do it live

  Site adds new bells and whistles into the "stream"--extra privacy controls and embeddable streaming status-update widgets for developers and site owners.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)
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