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Great white sharks have their own hang out in the Pacific Ocean, scientists say.

Beginning Nov. 9, sales associates for Best Buy Mobile will install google Mobile App on all BlackBerry, microsoft Windows Mobile, or Nokia S60 smartphones through the Walk Out Working program, a free in-store smartphone setup. The deal makes Best Buy the first retailer in the U.S. to distribute Google Mobile App on smartphones sold in store. However, Best Buy won't install Google Mobile App on the Motorola Droid or HTC Eris because it isn't available on Android. Google Mobile App support is missing in action on the iphone, too. - Google Nov. 5 partnered with Best Buy to let the retailer install Google Mobile applications on smartphones that it sells to consumers right in the store. Google Mobile App is a free mobile application users can download to their smartphone to Google Search by voice, use Google Se...

The founders of Skype will drop their lawsuits against the company and a consortium of buyers who bid to purchase Skype. In exchange, the founders will get a 14 percent share in the new Skype.

Lower costs and a good response for games such as Guitar Hero 5 and World of Warcraft helped the company in the third quarter.

Always-on Internet connectivity is keeping malware concerns alive and well. We examine whether antivirus software is up to the task, or whether it's a security solution of the past.

News Analysis: google again finds itself in a no-win situation, this time with Google Dashboard. Some claim Google collects too much data in Dashboard and others say it doesn't provide enough. Dashboard summarizes the data from the Web services associated with a user's account. Dashboard, which can be found here, or under the Personal Setting section under My Account, will list how many Gmail conversations we have going, how many Google Docs we have, Google Calendar appointments, and even Web history if we've enabled it. But it does not include detail Google collects on us from its server logs, cookies and ads. - News Analysis: With Google Dashboard, Google again finds itself in a no-win situation. In a utopian world, the search engine would be roundly praised for providing a window it's the data users generate from using Google applications. Yet whenever Google puts a foot forward, adverti...

It is quickly becoming commonplace for people to spend a few dollars to get ahead in an online game or to give a friend a gift on a social network.

Goatbert writes "Rafael Rivera over at WithinWindows.com has found evidence that microsoft has potentially stolen code from an open source/GPL'd project (ImageMaster) for a utility made available on the Microsoft Store to allow download customers to copy the Windows 7 setup files to a DVD or USB Flash Drive. If Rivera's evidence holds up, this could be some serious egg in the face for Microsoft at a time when they're getting mostly good press from the tech media."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

alphadogg writes "Cisco has finally publicly acknowledged it won't add support for new third-party devices to its security information and event monitoring appliance, ending months of speculation about the future of its Monitoring, Analysis and Response System. Some claim it's the beginning of the end for MARS as a multi-vendor SIEM device. 'MARS customers can expect non-Cisco network device data and signature updates to continue for currently supported third-party systems, but no new third-party devices will be added,' Cisco declared in a statement, noting that 'Cisco MARS continues to focus on supporting Cisco devices for threat identification and mitigation.' Cisco's SIEM competitors this week have eagerly grabbed at the topic of Cisco MARS freezing third-party support because of a Gartner research memo published Oct. 29 in which analyst Mark Nicolett stated, 'Cisco has quietly begun informing its customers of a decision to freeze support for most non-Cisco event sources with its [M