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3/8/2010    White House tweeting spreads president's message (AP)

FILE - In this July 7, 2008, file photo then-Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., checks his BlackBerry in St. Louis, Mo. Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of Obama's record, White House and administration officials are increasingly communicating through Twitter, the popular social network that operates as a Web-based clearing house for public statements on subjects as broad as the federal budget and as narrow as personal grocery lists. It's similar to a bulletin board where anyone can post short notes and users cull the pieces they see by choosing to 'follow' individuals' account.  (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - #wanttospinWHreporters?


3/8/2010    Toyota disputes critic who blames electronics (AP)

Dr. Matthew Schwall, Toyota's Managing Engineer of Exponent's Vehicle Engineering, performs a pedal test on a BMW during a live webcast  Monday, March 8, 2010, at Toyota Headquarters in Torrance, Calif. Toyota, dogged by millions of recalls and claims that it still has not fixed its safety problems, assembled a group of experts who said studies by an Illinois professor who revved Toyota engines simply by short-circuiting the wiring were flawed because they created conditions that would never happen on the road. (AP Photo/Bret Hartman)AP - Toyota, dogged by millions of recalls and claims that it still has not fixed its safety problems, took its strongest step yet Monday to silence critics who blame faulty electronics for runaway cars and trucks.


3/7/2010    Database can crack missing person cases — if used (AP)

FILE- In a photo made March 17, 2007, Janice Smolinski poses in her Cheshire, Conn., home where a photo of her son, Billy, is visible in the foreground. Billy disappeared from his Waterbury, Conn. home in Aug. 2004 and Smolinski believes a Justice Department database program will someday help find her son who was 31 when he vanished. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, File)AP - A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.


3/8/2010    Web standards group gets former tech exec as CEO (AP)

AP - A former executive with IBM and other tech companies has been named the new CEO of an organization in charge of coordinating the technical specifications behind the World Wide Web.

3/8/2010    Tax season bringing out the fraud artists (AP)

AP - How do you know that the sender of an e-mail that has landed in your inbox is trying to steal your money or your identity? The message comes right out and asks for it.

3/8/2010    IBM CEO's pay ticked higher to $21.2M in 2009 (AP)

AP - The pay package for IBM Corp.'s CEO notched slightly higher in 2009, according to calculations by The Associated Press, as he was rewarded for a year in which the technology company wrung out big profit gains despite a rocky market that clipped sales.

3/8/2010    Cyber-bullying cases put heat on Google, Facebook (Reuters)

Attendees await the beginning of the unveiling of the Nexus One Android smartphone, the first mobile phone the internet company will sell directly to consumers, during a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California January 5, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those ideals.


3/8/2010    Panasonic 3D TVs Arriving This Wednesday (PC World)

PC World - Panasonic, makers of the popular Viera HDTV line, announced that its new 3D TVs will go on sale in the United States later this week.

3/8/2010    Texas Instruments (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Texas Instruments , a maker of cell-phone chips, raised its low end of Q1 EPS forecast to 48-52 cents vs. views of 49 cents. It also expects Q1 revenue of $3.07 bil-$3.19 bil vs. views of $3.08 bil. Shares dipped in late trading.

3/8/2010    Lil Wayne begins 1-year jail term in NYC gun case (AP)

FILE- In this Feb. 9, 2010, file photo, rapper Lil Wayne enters Manhattan criminal court in New York. After two delays, Lil Wayne is finally set to be sentenced Monday, March 8, 2010,  to a year in city jail, as planned when he pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He admitted illegally having a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun on his tour bus in July 2007. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, file)AP - After saying goodbye on concert stages and online video streams, Lil Wayne had nothing to add as he was sentenced Monday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.


3/8/2010    2K mobster videogame gets vintage Playboy touch (AFP)

Partial view of a Playboy bunny logo in lights. 2K Games on Monday announced a deal with Playboy to use some the iconic magazine's vintage covers and centerfold photos to set the mood in its AFP - 2K Games on Monday announced a deal with Playboy to use some the iconic magazine's vintage covers and centerfold photos to set the mood in its "Mafia II' videogame.


3/8/2010    CBS returns March Madness to the iPhone (Macworld.com)

Macworld.com - The fervor over March Madness is akin to the excitement over the Olympics: even if you're not a typical sports fan, you can't help but be interested.  Me, I’ll watch maybe one college basketball game during the regular season, but come tournament time I can't help but refresh scores and update my bracket like any other diehard. This year, two versions of CBS Sports Mobile's March Madness iPhone app should make that easier than ever.

3/8/2010    WordPress Guns for Web Content Management Duties (PC World)

PC World - Long popular with bloggers, the open-source WordPress blogging software is also starting to find a niche as a low-cost corporate CMS (content management system), at least for managing relatively simple Web sites.

3/8/2010    Cisco shares up ahead of Tuesday event (AP)

AP - Shares of Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest maker of computer networking gear, rose Monday after JP Morgan initiated coverage of the stock with an "Overweight" rating, and investors waited for a Cisco news conference on Tuesday.

3/8/2010    Energizer USB Charger Software Contains Malware (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Some Windows PC users may hope the Energizer bunny didn't keep going and going. It turns out the Energizer DUO USB battery charger is a vehicle for attacks on PCs, according to the Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team.

3/8/2010    Rivals Report Boost from Microsoft's Browser Ballot (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Mozilla and Opera Software say they are seeing an uptick in demand for their browsers in the wake of Microsoft's launch of a choice ballot in Europe. Mozilla CEO John Lilly told The New York Times over the weekend that more than 50,000 Firefox downloads have already occurred via direct links from the new choice screen that the European Commission mandated last year as part of its antitrust settlement with Microsoft.

3/8/2010    Stanford survey contemplates iPhone addiction (Macworld.com)

Macworld.com - Remember what life was like before the iPhone? Back when we had to print out maps for trips, do simple calculations in our heads, drive around to find a good restaurant, and watch YouTube videos on a device no smaller than a laptop? Dark times, indeed.