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  Google's social side
  aims for some Buzz

  Facebook and Twitter are the darlings of the social-media world, not Google--which hopes to change that with Buzz, betting it can organize your online social life.
  • Live blog: Google Buzz
  • Podcast: Sergey Brin on Buzz
  • Google struggles with social skills

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  A Toyota Prius owner waits for the recall

  Last summer, CNET's Martin LaMonica wanted to see if his spiffy new hybrid could hit the magic 50 mpg mark. Now he's wondering when it will get a fix for faulty brakes.
  • Toyota adds 2010 Prius to global recall list

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• RealNetworks, Viacom to spin off Rhapsody

  Real and Viacom say the subscription music service will be more nimble as a standalone company. The move means that Real is satisfied to give up control.

  (Posted in Media Maverick by Greg Sandoval)

• Microsoft patches 26 Windows, Office holes

  Patch Tuesday update addresses vulnerabilities in DirectShow, SMB Protocol, ActiveX, Windows Shell Handler, and 32-bit Windows.

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)

• Hints of a bubble in green-tech IPOs

  Electric car maker Tesla, solar company Solyndra, and others have plans for public offerings. Is it too much too soon or will there be more start-up acquisitions?

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Microsoft looks at health potential of Xbox, apps

  Software giant is researching how gadgets like the Xbox and technologies like accelerometers in cell phones could improve personal health, and health care in general.

  (Posted in Health Tech by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore)

• Ex-Sun CEO ponders penning a book

  Jonathan Schwartz was a prolific blogger and now has begun tweeting. The next possibility: a book about being Sun's chief executive.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Ford to debut all-electric Transit Connect van

  Automaker to unveil 2011 Transit Connect Electric van at Chicago Auto Show. New model expected to go into production late 2010.

  (Posted in The Car Tech blog by Lance Whitney)

• McAfee: Spammers exploiting more news stories

  Spammers continue to capitalize on news headlines to try to trick people into clicking on e-mails to spread malware, says McAfee in its latest threats report.

  (Posted in Security by Lance Whitney)

• Watching the birth of a gaming start-up

  Stewart Butterfield and pals are back with a new company. CNET's Daniel Terdiman got exclusive, behind-the-scenes access as they built it from scratch.
  • In depth with Tiny Speck's Glitch
  • Images: Behind the start-up

  (Posted in Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman)

• Olympic snow still in short supply at Cypress

  Organizers have now shortened training, stepped up trucking of snow, and even turned to adding dry ice to the mix to make sure the venue is ready for the start of the Games.
  • Roundup: Winter Games tech

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Tweeting a book by its cover

  An indie magazine in Brooklyn has launched a Twitter account that broadcasts what books people are reading on the New York subway--an attempt to show that e-readers have their voyeuristic disadvantages.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Alleged Mario pirate agrees to pay $1.3 million

  An Australian man who allegedly copied and then uploaded to the Web the New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii has agreed to pay up.

  (Posted in The Digital Home by Don Reisinger)

• Apple's Aperture 3 adds face recognition, GPS

  New version of Apple's professional photography software adds more than 200 new features, including the popular Faces and Places introduced in iPhoto '09.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Microsoft, Google split over browser bug bounty

  Google follows Mozilla in launching program to pay researchers who find bugs, but critics say it won't necessarily pay off.

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)
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