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In this issue:

 * Hackers now offer subscription services, support for their malware
 * Don't Believe the Hype: The 21 Biggest Technology Flops
 * Mozilla eyes hardening Firefox against ANI exploits
 * Google to build $600M data center in S.C.
 * Domain name application gives phishers a new foe
 * Google agrees to update New Orleans imagery in Maps and Earth
 * How Webkinz is getting children hooked on the Web
 * Reznor adopts unusual Web campaign for new album
 * Google sssearch turns up wayward snake
 * Web 2.0 can be hijacked, claims Fortify


Computerworld Blogs:

 * EMI and Jobs blow away DRM (and historic Beatles)
 * Round 6: H-1B Battle - American engineering's "April Fools"
 * Shark Tank: Test session, redefined
 * The more things change ...
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Hackers now offer subscription services, support for their malware

Malware makers and cybercriminals are now turning the distribution of Trojan 
horses, spyware and data theft software into an online business, offering their 
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Don't Believe the Hype: The 21 Biggest Technology Flops

We fondly recall 21 overpromoted products and technologies that utterly failed 
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Mozilla eyes hardening Firefox against ANI exploits

Mozilla Corp. is looking at ways it could toughen the Firefox browser against 
the Windows animated cursor (ANI) file bug, according to the company's lead 
developer.

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Google to build $600M data center in S.C.

Google plans to invest $600 million in a new data center in South Carolina, the 
state government said on Wednesday.

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Domain name application gives phishers a new foe

A 26-year-old programmer has created an application to track newly registered 
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Google agrees to update New Orleans imagery in Maps and Earth

A congressional subcommittee wanted to know why Google replaced post-Katrina 
satellite imagery of New Orleans with pre-Katrina images.

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How Webkinz is getting children hooked on the Web

Plush toys are sold with a secret code that children can use to enter online 
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Reznor adopts unusual Web campaign for new album

Campaign features everything from cryptic phrases on T-shirts to Orwellian Web 
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Google sssearch turns up wayward snake

Employees at Google's New York offices can rest easier now that Kaiser, a 
3-foot-long ball python, has been captured after disappearing from his tank 
over the weekend.

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Web 2.0 can be hijacked, claims Fortify

Security vendor Fortify Software says a flaw in AJAX frameworks can enable an 
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COMPUTERWORLD BLOGS
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EMI and Jobs blow away DRM (and historic Beatles)

Monday's IT Blogwatch comes to you from from sunny London: in which EMI and 
Steve Jobs are expected to remove DRM from their music. Not to mention The 
Beatles on Doctor Who in 1965...

http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1421252/1378785/58059/2/
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Round 6: H-1B Battle - American engineering's "April Fools"

Good morning, you're fired and getting replaced by a software engineer from 
India with an H-1B visa ... APRIL FOOLS! This is a bad joke to play on an 
engineer these days, because it is just too close to actually being true.

http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1421252/1378785/57418/2/
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Shark Tank: Test session, redefined

Software developer pilot fish knows this user is an expert at testing 
applications -- after all, he's told her so. He boasts about the time he spent 
working as a software tester in an IT shop, fish says.

http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1421252/1378785/57176/2/
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The more things change ...

When I was in grad school, I tried to explain to a really nice man that some of 
his colleagues were great and some were slime.  All of them were my faculty 
members.  We had a chat about complimenting a woman on her attire.  Seems 
straight forward:

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