IT hiring to rise, but only slightly, study says (Network World)

A new study of more than 1,400 U.S. CIOs found that 11 percent plan to hire additional staff in the fourth quarter of this year, while 3 percent expect cuts.

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Google on Chrome EULA controversy: our bad, we'll change it (Ars Technica)

The end user license agreement for Google's new browser, Chrome, apparently gives the company the right to all data "submitted" or "displayed" by the browser. But the company now tells Ars it's all a big mistake and that the offending passages are being pulled.

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Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border (Washington Post)

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

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Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife (Network World)

The Global S.P.A.M. Diaries was an experiment by McAfee to find out what would happen if 50 volunteers from around the world put aside common sense and answered every e-mail.

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The Wharton School Beefs Up Data Center with Blade Servers (Campus Technology)

The new data center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will allow the school to triple both its mailbox quota and the storage capacity available to faculty and students, as well as provide researchers the ability to operate a Linux grid cluster powered by blade servers.

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FCC finally prepares to investigate embedded ads on TV (Ars Technica)

The FCC has, at long last, opened a proceeding on what to do about "paid placement" advertising in TV shows. The FCC Chairman says Americans should know when someone is trying to sell them something, no matter how sly the reference.

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