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  LED TVs: 10 things
  you need to know

  Many big TV makers are pushing LED TVs as the latest and greatest flat-screens. But just what are LED TVs, and what should you know before buying one?

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  Sidekick outage casts cloud over Redmond

  Although Microsoft inherited Danger's service, its big outage could call into question the broader reliability of keeping data in Redmond's cloud.
  • Users' tales of woe
  • Missing data: Gone for good?

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• Microsoft wants multicore boost from Windows 7

  The new operating system should be able to make better use of modern multicore chips--in part through changes to adapt Windows to big servers.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Levinson quits Google's board

  With his dual service on the boards of both Google and Apple a point of contention, former Genentech Chairman Arthur Levinson departs from one of the posts.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Lance Whitney)

• IBM privacy chief: Asia need not mimic Europe

  Harriet Pearson discusses data protection legislation, the need for a balanced view regarding data breach notification, and why Asian regulators should not "photocopy" European law books.

  (Posted in Security by Vivian Yeo)

• Cirque founder, station fliers return to Earth

  Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté, cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA flight engineer Michael Barratt returned to Earth Sunday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

  (Posted in The Space Shot by William Harwood)

• Marathon winner disqualified for wearing iPod

  A woman is disqualified from the Lakefront Marathon in Milwaukee for wearing an iPod. She only actually wore it for a couple of miles.

  (Posted in Technically Incorrect by Chris Matyszczyk)

• Downed Facebook accounts still haven't returned

  It's been a week and some members say they still receive a "down for maintenance" error message when trying to access their profiles.
  • 'The Social Network' filming starts in Boston soon

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• LG takes e-book craze outside

  E-book reader from LG Display taps solar power to recharge in four to five hours, yielding an additional day's worth of reading time.

  (Posted in Crave by Jack Loftus)

• Training to climb an Everest of digital data

  Google and IBM are offering help to universities to get students to cope with vast amounts of data.
  (From The New York Times)

• Solar homes go for high-tech and practicality

  Contestants from the Solar Decathlon in Washington build net zero-energy homes that push the envelope of green building design using solar and energy efficiency.
  • Photos: Solar Decathlon, start your houses

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Hacked Web mail accounts used to send spam

  While Websense has seen a rise in spam following the compromise of thousands of Web mail accounts, security experts are split over how the accounts were breached.

  (Posted in Security by Carly Newman)

• Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

  Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the Malibal Veda series notebook, Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch, and the Monster Turbine Pro In-Ear Speakers.
  • Week in review: Android has arrived
  • This week in Crave: The all-the-ooze-you-can-use edition

• Take down the enemy, while doing some shopping

  The GeoXray software lets you click on a satellite image and get information about a given location. Now DARPA wants to beef up its capabilities.

  (Posted in Military Tech by Mark Rutherford)

• Photos: A whirlwind tour of wind tunnels

  At NASA's Langley Research Center there's long been more than one way to test the aerodynamics of things that go zoom.

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