Samsung, Panasonic start selling 3-D TVs this week (AP)

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Sony's 3-D televisions are introduced as a model watches with its 3-D glasses included in the TV set in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, March  9, 2010. Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will start selling 3-D televisions in June, joining a competitive industrywide push to convince consumers to embrace the technology for their living rooms. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP – Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week, inaugurating what TV makers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room.

Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba (AP)

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AP – A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba.

Britain could force owners to microchip their dogs (AP)

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A dog walks past a landscape of central London, on Hampstead Heath in London, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. The British government have launched a new proposal which requires that all new dog owners fit their pets with microchips and that canine insurance is made compulsory. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP – British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country’s dangerous canines.

Ex-Novell exec takes Web leadership post

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As CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the HTML standard, Jeff Jaffe wants faster standards development and more work with outside developers.

MacBook Pro sports Core i7 chip label at Best Buy

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MacBook Pro with an Intel Core i7 label: Though likely a mistake, it’s probably enough to jump-start the rumor mill.

Database can crack missing person cases — if used (AP)

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FILE- In a photo made March 17, 2007, Janice Smolinski poses in her Cheshire, Conn., home where a photo of her son, Billy, is visible in the foreground. Billy disappeared from his Waterbury, Conn. home in Aug. 2004 and Smolinski believes a Justice Department database program will someday help find her son who was 31 when he vanished. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, File)AP – A new online database promises to crack some of the nation’s 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.

ABC restored to 3.1M customers after Oscars begin (AP)

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FILE - Bob Iger, president and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, delivers a keynote speech during the TelecomNEXT convention in Las Vegas on in this March 20, 2006 file photo. Cablevision Systems Corp. said early Sunday March 7, 2010 the stall in negotiations should be blamed on Disney CEO Bob Iger.  (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP – Cablevision’s 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut had their access to the Academy Awards telecast restored Sunday night after the cable operator reached a deal with ABC’s parent company in a dispute over fees.

Police get Webcam pictures in school spy case

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Two IT employees at Lower Merion School District have been put on administrative leave while alleged misuse of Webcams in student laptops is investigated.

At RSA 2010, the secure and the insecure (photos)

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The cybersecurity conference in San Francisco brings together hackers and security professionals to decode the latest threats to the digital world.

FCC to propose revamping Universal Service Fund (AP)

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AP – Federal regulators trying to bring high-speed Internet connections to all Americans will propose tapping the government program that now subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural areas.