DOJ officially opens investigation into Google Book Search
The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed on Thursday that it is investigating a settlement involving Google Book Search for possible antitrust violations, following months of speculation that the agency had its eye on the service. Read more...

Judge temporarily dismisses MySpace cyberbully case

Court orders spammers to pay $3.7 million

China will still require Green Dam Web filter program

Security guard charged with hacking hospital systems

US agencies require net neutrality with broadband grants

NASA: All systems go for shuttle Endeavour's July 11 launch

Facebook simplifies privacy settings, calls them too complex

Lawsuit seeks refund for Clear subscribers

TSA asked to ensure safety of customer data after Clear closing

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iPhone 3GS heats up, DOJ takes aim at Google
The iPhone scored quite a few headlines related to overheating problems with the 3GS this week. Depending on whom you believe, those issues are either real, exaggerated, the fault of users or some combination of the three. Otherwise, as warm weather takes hold above the equator and Bostonians contemplate whether it's time to brush up on our ark-building skills (rain, rain go away), we find this week's IT news offerings cover a broad range.

Internet cafe company offers $7.8 million for The Pirate Bay
The owners of The Pirate Bay have agreed to sell the site to a Swedish Internet cafe operator for 60 million Swedish kronor (US$7.8 million), the company said on Tuesday.

Obama's Cybersecurity Push: What It Means for CIOs
Happy Birthday, America. We're not as safe as we think. From the electricity grid to the banking system to the defense contractors building our most sophisticated weapons, computers running the nation's critical infrastructure see relentless attacks from criminals and countries alike. Sometimes we hear about it, sometimes we don't.

The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault
The goal is to have all the image files processed by February, producing a moon atlas with a resolution higher than anything previously seen.

Pirate Party finds France fertile territory
Sweden's Pirate Party won 7.13 percent of the vote in elections earlier this month. Its campaign for the respect of privacy, the reform of copyright law and the abolition of the patent system earned it a seat in the European Parliament, and it may yet gain another seat there, if planned changes to the number of seats attributed to each country win approval.

Energy-efficient servers earn a star -- but so what?
The Energy Star program for servers is a good first step, most agree, but it measures energy use only under limited circumstances and does not include popular hardware types, like blade servers -- at least not yet.

Pirate Party finds France fertile territory
Sweden's Pirate Party won 7.13 percent of the vote in elections earlier this month. Its campaign for the respect of privacy, the reform of copyright law and the abolition of the patent system earned it a seat in the European Parliament, and it may yet gain another seat there, if planned changes to the number of seats attributed to each country win approval.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita applies his predictive computer model, based on game theory, to national security issues, public policy debates, mergers and acquisitions, legal proceedings and questions regarding regulation, corporate fraud and more.

A Plan to Secure the Federal Cyberspace
About this series: In a paper he wrote and published before President Obama's announcement regarding the creation of a national cybersecurity coordinator, Ariel Silverstone, CISSP, put forward his thoughts about the necessity of having a chief security officer for the United States. In this first installment, he discusses the need he sees for the role, his idea of placement, timetable, and the CSO's role definition. Silverstone also lists his vision for the first (of 23) tasks that he sees as essential for information security in the United States.

Five Steps to HITECH Preparedness
CSOs in healthcare organizations know that the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, signed into law in February 2009, includes new privacy requirements that experts have called "the biggest change to the health care privacy and security environment since the original HIPAA privacy rule." These include:

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Don't trash your tired old desktop PC -- pump it up with a few inexpensive upgrades. Microsoft's Windows 7 pricing plans may derail efforts to make users move away from XP and forget Vista. Also see Preston Gralla: Don't believe the $120 Windows 7 pricetag. Trademark owners say cybersquatting on the Web has gone too far -- and they're pushing back. The goal is to have all the original Lunar Orbiter image files processed by February, producing a moon atlas with a resolution higher than anything previously seen.

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