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iPhone 3G queue forms in Manhattan - But the usual suspects--gadget fanatics--aren't the ones at the front of the line.
Privacy advocates praise Google's new link - Company's decision to add a link to its home page that leads to its Privacy Center is enough to quell a controversy.
Photos: Army designates year's best inventions - Every year, the U.S. Army designates a set of top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers.
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week - CNET Reviews rates the Garmin Nuvi 880 car GPS gadget, a Panasonic Viera flat-screen TV, the Asus Eee PC 901 laptop, and more.
Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal - Fourth-ranked search engine completes its acquisition of the parent company of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
1 euro eBay baby goes home - Parents had put their baby boy up for sale on eBay--apparently as a joke--but German authorities didn't find it particularly amusing.
VeriSign names interim CEO - Company's founder takes the place of the CEO and president, who resigned abruptly earlier this week.
Week in review: Microhoogle intrigue - Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are facing probes, proxies, and accusations of backroom politicking as their various attempts to link up come under scrutiny. Also: searching for content within Flash is becoming easier.
Photos: Cracking Open the Apple Macintosh Classic - TechRepublic examines just what went into one of the most famous personal computers ever manufactured--and what tech was like in 1991.
Photos: Up close with the Blue Angels - News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman visits Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola, home of the Blue Angels.
At home with the Blue Angels - During a visit to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman gets to see the high-performance pilots up close.
Japanese Shell subsidiary plans solar-panel plant - Oil company turns to the sun, with plans to build a factory manufacturing thin-film solar panels with a cumulative yearly power generation capacity of 1 gigawatt.
EA debuts new family, sports games for Wii, PlayStation - After its pairing with board game maker Hasbro, EA shows off its new family-oriented games and an "All-Play" series for Wii.
Video: Latest in Viacom-Google lawsuit raises questions - News.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom.
Researcher faults Apple iPhone on security updates - He says iPhone, still at version 1.1.4, is at least four months behind desktop OS in patching many known Mac OS X security vulnerabilities.
Google RatProxy looks for cross-site flaws - Free tool helps Web developers analyze their site for a variety of cross-site vulnerabilities.
Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own online - On Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the latest development in the Google-Viacom lawsuit.
News.com Daily Podcast: Should YouTube users worry about privacy? - How engineering is helping revive post-Katrina New Orleans; Google and Viacom battle over user privacy; and what Microsoft has to do with the Facebook and ConnectU legal battle.
Hundreds of Lithuanian Web sites defaced - Loosely affiliated supporters mount an online protest over new laws in Lithuania banning the display of Soviet symbols.
Mozilla and Opera fix security flaws - Opera updates its most recent release, while Mozilla continues to support an older version of Firefox with updates.
EIC Squared: Indexing Flash; Powerset; and Viacom vs. Google - On this week's EIC Squared podcast, CNET News.com's Dan Farber and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discuss the week's big stories.
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