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  Net scams prey on jobless, social sites

  year in review Web surfers in 2009 were bombarded with fake antivirus alerts, bogus work-at-home ads, and phishing attempts and Trojan horses masquerading as Twitter and Facebook messages.

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  15 sites that went
  kaput in 2009

  images New sites launch all the time, but they also shut their doors. We highlight 15 that bit the dust in 2009.

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• New, no-electronics U.S. flight security rules?

  The TSA hasn't made an official ruling, but it appears the failed terrorist attack Friday is leading to restrictions on in-flight electronics on a case-by-case basis.

  (Posted in Crave by Chris Jacob)

• Kindle is most gifted Amazon item, ever

  Statement on holiday sales declares the Kindle king; On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, more books for the e-reader sold than physical copies.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Michelle Meyers)

• Microsoft, Intel to cede tablet market to Apple?

  commentary If the Apple tablet emerges as expected, this could be another market that Cupertino takes from right under the PC companies' noses.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)

  Here are a few of CNET's favorite items from the past week, including the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700, Asus Eee PC 1005PE Netbook, and the Mitsubishi LT-46249.

• Helping children find what they need on the Internet

  Google sponsored research to detect differences in how children and adults search and to identify barriers children face when seeking information.
  (From The New York Times)

• FCC member berates Verizon for termination fees

  Commissioner Mignon Clyburn says in an open letter that she find Verizon's defense of its early termination fees to be "unsatisfying and, in some cases, troubling."

  (Posted in Wireless by Natalie Weinstein)

• Ford sees bump in hybrid sales

  Carmaker says its hybrid sales are up 67 percent this year, despite an 11 percent slump industrywide.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Natalie Weinstein)

• Chinese dissident receives 11-year sentence

  Liu Xiaobo helped draft Charter 08, a petition that called for free speech and open elections. It garnered 10,000 signatures before it was removed from the Net by government censors.
  (From The New York Times)

• Apple owns iSlate.com--the mystery deepens

  More intrigue surfaces around Apple's widely rumored tablet. The latest: it may be dubbed iSlate, according to information uncovered by MacRumors.com.
  • Tablet hint? Apple developers supersizing apps

  (Posted in Apple by Dan Nosowitz)

• How tech touched the '00s

  Among the multitude of end-of-decade lists, the Associated Press rounds up 50 lifestyle trends. Whether it's surprising or not, tech-related items make up nearly half.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Natalie Weinstein)

• Poll: What do you most want to see in 2010?

  An iPhone on Verizon, still-cheaper Netbooks, or Google taking over the government? What would you most like to see in the coming year?

  (Posted in Crave by Matt Hickey)

• Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes/MySpace mystery solved

  A complex, potential deal centers on News Corp.'s Rotten Tomatoes merging with Flixster, a social-networking site for movies. The resulting company's content could then be threaded throughout News Corp.'s MySpace.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Kara Swisher, AllThingsD)

• Gift for Googlers: $2.3 billion

  A well-timed employee stock-option exchange has delivered a generous windfall to nearly all of Google's 20,000 workers--worth about $117,000 to each.
  (From The New York Times)

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