Military Chatrooms from California to Afghanistan (NYTimes.com)

Young Air Force analysts are showing how the Facebook generation’s skills are being exploited — and paying dividends — in America’s wars.

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Cloud tradeoffs: freedom of choice vs. freedom from choice (Ars Technica)

Joseph Tobolski, a partner at Accenture Technology Labs, talks with Ars Technica about the challenges to cloud adoption in the enterprise, the use and abuse of "cloud" as a buzzword, and the fundamental tradeoffs that cloud demands of its users.

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First human 'infected with computer virus' (BBC News)

A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus.

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8 Google Search Alternatives (PCMag.com)

Is Google just not doing it for you anymore? It's hard to avoid the search engine these days, but there are plenty of alternative services that may do a better job addressing your specific discovery needs.

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4Mbps broadband for all to cost $23 billion, won't use fiber (Ars Technica)

The FCC's national broadband target of 4Mbps isn't very ambitious, and neither is the tech that will deliver it to those who currently can't get it: DSL, with some 4G wireless and a bit of satellite. But it will still cost $23 billion.

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HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion (Business Wire)

HP and Palm, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm, a provider of smartphones powered by the Palm webOS mobile operating system, at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash or an enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion.

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