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Ciena to buy Nortel unit in $769 million deal Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Linthicum-based Ciena announced Monday that it has won a bid to buy a major piece of bankrupt Canadian tech firm Nortel Networks.
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White House official's net neutrality comments irk AT&T Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST AT&T doesn't like the idea of new regulations mandating unfettered access to the Internet, and recent comments from the Obama administration that connected the issue to censorship in China have really gotten under its skin.
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@Play: At libraries, fun and games now the lure Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Nine-year old Cody Wallace and his seven-year-old brother Justin spent the day at the library last weekend, but for once they weren't working on book reports. They were playing video games.
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Ted Leonsis has the option to purchase the Washington Wizards franchise Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Former AOL executive Ted Leonsis, who purchased the Washington Capitals from Pollin in 1999, has the first right of refusal to purchase the Washington Wizards, Verizon Center and the Baltimore-Washington Ticketmaster franchise.
New attack targets weakness in Internet Explorer Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:11:25 EST Blueprints showing attackers how to exploit a previously unknown security hole in versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser recently were published online. The danger here is if IE users browse to a hacked or booby-trapped Web site that uses the exploit, that site could install malicious...
Safety issue raised in Dulles rail bridge project Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Thirty-two years ago, the Virginia transportation department drove dozens of steel pilings 50 feet into the ground near the West Falls Church Metro station. Encased in concrete, the pilings formed foundations that one day could hold up a bridge carrying Metro trains across Interstate 66 to Dulles...
Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and disparaged climate-change skeptics.
