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| |  | Blogging live from Spiral Jetty |
| | | Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty. |
| | | Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store |
| | | The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell. |
| | | Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites |
| | | At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon's Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted. |
| | | What soccer team would your company be? |
| | | Martin Veitch at CIO.co.uk riffs on how certain football clubs resemble software companies, to good and painful effect. |
| | | iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web |
| | | Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way. |
| | | Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID |
| | | Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices. |
| | | Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle |
| | | q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed. |
| | | Week in review: A speedier new Firefox |
| | | Mozilla's latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green. |
| | | Defending against chemical and biological weapons |
| | | At the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against "bugs" that could easily kill or sideline them. |
| | | Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it |
| | | Open source has a role to play in cloud computing, but it's likely not to be the vanquisher of old, proprietary dominance. |
| | | Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography |
| | | Firefox 3.5 introduces a new embeddable font feature that can make Web typography much more visually appealing. But type foundries have to play along. |
| | | Sites that help you lodge complaints |
| | | If you've been wronged or you're just not happy with the way you were treated, there are some sites on the Web that will help you get your voice heard. |
| | | Google App Engine misfires |
| | | A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Thursday. |
| | | iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing |
| | | Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but that's just not true. |
| | | Report: Guilty verdict overturned in MySpace suicide case |
| | | Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her. |
