| Security scanner can see through clothes
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 AP - Sky Harbor International Airport became the country's first to begin testing a controversial new federal screening system that takes X-rays of passenger's bodies in an effort to find concealed explosives and other weapons.
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| Text messages land teacher in hot water
(AP)
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| AP - A middle school teacher trying to buy pot was arrested after she sent text messages to state trooper instead of a dealer, police said. |
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| Philly teacher assaulted over iPod
(AP)
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| AP - A high school teacher was assaulted by two students and hospitalized with broken vertebrae after he took an iPod away from one of them during class, officials said. |
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| Sony woos buyers with PS3 freebies
(AP)
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 AP - Sony is handing out freebies to buyers of its PlayStation 3 as its hefty price appears to be scaring away shoppers. The latest giveaway will take place in Australia, where the gaming console launches March 23. The first 20,000 buyers will receive a copy of the James Bond movie "Casino Royale."
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| Who will win the next high-tech jackpot?
(AP)
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| AP - As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich. |
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| Confiscated airline carry-on items become big sellers on eBay
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 AFP - What happens to those scissors, lighters and the occasional machete confiscated at US airports? Some land in an Ali Baba-style cave here, to be auctioned on eBay.
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| Skype Asks FCC to Force Open Mobile Networks
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| PC World - Skype Ltd. is looking to a 1968 ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to open up the country's mobile phone industry for "unlocked" devices and third-party applications-- such as Skype. |
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| Music and Video Players Add Wi-Fi Access
(PC World)
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| PC World - Devices from AOL, iRiver, and Sandisk will let you acquire tunes without a PC. |
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| Browser vulnerabilities and attacks will continue to mount
(InfoWorld)
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| InfoWorld - Window Snyder, chief security officer at open source browser maker Mozilla, is caught in the crosshairs of the raging browser vulnerability battle. |
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| Early Bird Consumers Lean On Software, Net To File Taxes
(TechWeb)
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| TechWeb - Taxpayers who want to do more than one thing with their refunds can divide the money and deposit it directly in up to three accounts this year. |
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| IBM not ready to say Oracle's Linux compatible
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - IBM is not ready to guarantee
that its computer programs are compatible with Oracle Corp.'s
recently launched version of the Linux operating
system, an IBM spokesman said on Friday. |
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| Nintendo Wii Takes Lead in Console Wars
(NewsFactor)
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 NewsFactor - Nintendo's Wii game console outsold its competitors in January, keeping its lead against rivals Sony and Microsoft, according to new sales figures from analyst firm NPD.
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