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  Facebook seeks
  a new CFO

  Gideon Yu is out as chief financial officer, and the social site aims to hire someone with experience at a public company.

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  My painfully poky week
  with Internet Explorer 8

  There are plenty of good things about the new version of Microsoft's browser, says CNET News' Stephen Shankland. But he found the interface sluggish.

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• Live blog: Countdown to Conficker

  Researchers say the worm is awake on computers in Asia where it's already April 1, but so far it hasn't taken much action. We'll keep you updated here.
  • Rid your computer of the Conficker virus

  (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills)

• Symantec investigating customer credit card data theft

  BBC News films undercover reporters purchasing credit card numbers of Symantec customers.

  (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills)

• Yahoo engineer ID'd in murder-suicide

  The man police say killed five members of his family before turning the gun on himself had worked at the Internet giant since 2004.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Steven Musil)

• Hitachi exec indicted in LCD price-fixing scheme

  Sakae Someya is the eighth person charged in the scandal involving fixing the price of LCD screens sold to Dell.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Erica Ogg)

• Retailers: Credit card data inadequately protected

  Credit card companies are more interested in using their self-imposed data security standards to protect their own interests rather than consumers, the retail industry says.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• Fiorina 'seriously considering' bid for Senate

  Former Hewlett-Packard CEO makes the comments at a think tank, saying that her varied experiences would be an asset if she were to pursue political office.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• House floats draft of energy and climate change bill

  Green technologies stand to get further support with the bill, particularly in renewable energy and efficiency, but global warming provisions face a tough political fight.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Report: HP considers Google Android for Netbooks

  The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Hewlett-Packard is "studying" Google's open-source software for mobile phones to use on its low-cost Netbooks.

  (Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

• Neil Young has a lotta love for his eco-car

  The legendary rocker has written an album about his LincVolt electric-car project, featuring the crisis in the auto industry and the economic downturn in general.

  (Posted in Crave by Erik Palm)

• Windows users brace for Conficker's wiggle

  roundup The Internet worm is expected to strike on April 1, but experts disagree on how extensive the damage could be.

  (Posted in Security by CNET News staff)

• Google bans tethering app from Android Market?

  A developer says Google has banned his Wi-Fi tethering application from the Android Market over concerns that it violates T-Mobile's terms of service.

  (Posted in Wireless by Tom Krazit)

• Facebook flick moves ahead, but Facebook not thrilled

  Remember that tell-all about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's early years? Not a huge surprise the company is reportedly warning ex-employees not to talk to anyone involved.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Honda thinks up mind-controlled robots

  Honda Research Institute and Shimadzu demonstrate a technology that lets humans control a bot through thought alone. But don't start trying to think your Scooba into writing your thesis just yet.

  (Posted in Crave by Leslie Katz)
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