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US House to vote on CISPA cyberthreat bill this week

The controversial information-sharing bill is scheduled for a Thursday vote

Facebook affirms its privacy commitment with national campaign

The project is designed to better educate people on how to share content

Report: Verizon wants to buy Clearwire spectrum

An offer for some leases would further complicate the financial wrangling between Sprint, Clearwire, Softbank and Dish

Microsoft eyes ditching browser for secure Web apps

The company is developing Embassies, a more secure client-side architecture using Internet addresses for external communications

Knocking down the “I need a full mesh between my locations” MPLS myth

While enterprises need any-any connectivity, neither traffic patterns nor VoIP require a fully meshed WAN.

Find My Mac both useful and frustrating for law enforcement

The service is often not accurate enough to get someone's stolen device back, Dutch police said

Dish Network launches $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel

No one is going to have a better pipe than Dish-Sprint, according to Dish chairman

Google’s Schmidt predicts ‘everyone on Earth’ online by 2020

That’s going to take some doing it would seem

Stupid user tricks 7: True tales of extreme brain fail

China’s Alibaba bolsters mobile OS after clash with Google

Google previously threatened to derail Alibaba Group from signing up handset vendors for its mobile OS