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Keep a closer eye on the neighbours

By CLAIRE McENTEE - The Dominion Post | 05:00AM

New Zealanders can look at their homes and streets on Google's controversial Street View software from today, but people's faces have been blurred to protect their identity.

Mobiles distract drivers more than passengers

Reuters | 05:00AM

Cell phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss exits.

Super hacker wants to be next Bill Gates

05:00AM

A Whitianga teenager who hacked into a United States university computer says he would ultimately like to start his own company and become the next Bill Gates.

Security 'could be better'

The Dominion Post

New Zealand organisations are less likely to have formal policies to tackle information security risks and are more willing to hand over responsibility for IT security to outsourcing companies or contractors, according to a global survey by Ernst & Young.

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Blogs feed information frenzy on Mumbai blasts

Reuters

Bloggers across Mumbai fed live updates of the action after Islamist gunmen launched waves of attacks in the heart of India's financial capital, highlighting the emergence of citizen jouralism in news coverage.

Online networks a magnet for job-seekers

Google Maps hack turns book into geo-novel

Man jailed after abusing woman he met on the internet

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Review: USB missile launcher

By ADAM TURNER - SMH

The USB Missile Launcher lets you take office warfare to a whole new level.

Do surge protectors really protect your gadgets?

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Videogames to go on vacation

Reuters

With the holiday travel season fast approaching, videogame makers are making sure they have games and consoles handy for trains, planes and automobiles - and so are holiday destinations.

Review: World of Goo

Review: Skate IT

Review: Wii Music

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HP profit growth driven by EDS, cost cuts

Reuters

Hewlett-Packard Co has posted a higher quarterly profit, helped by cost cuts and its acquisition of Electronic Data Systems, which boosted revenue from computer services.

TradeMe drops Smaps for Google

Cybercrime as bad as credit crisis - experts

Microsoft to give away free security software

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BAD MEN: An experiment to highlight computer security showed that an unprotected computer receives the first probes within seconds of being turned on and becomes unusable within just two hours.
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Games

Videogames to go on vacation
With the holiday travel season fast approaching, videogame makers are making sure they have games and consoles handy for trains, planes and automobiles - and so are holiday destinations.

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Gadgets

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Review: USB missile launcher
The USB Missile Launcher lets you take office warfare to a whole new level.

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Digital living

Wikipedia often omits important drug info
Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and adverse effects, new research shows.

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IT and Telecommunications

Telco market to grow slowly
The New Zealand telecommunications market grew 2 per cent to $7.1 billion in the year to June and shouldn't be greatly dented by the economic downturn, says Australian analyst BuddeComm.

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