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  • Google millionaires: From Mountain View to the wine bar

    Sometimes, it's not easy to leave the Googleplex. Even for the many millionaires among the search giant's pre-IPO employees, there's great appeal to a workplace that prizes creativity and rewards its employees -- of course, there's also the cachet of working at one of the hottest tech companies in the world, a virtual Shangri-La for the geek set.

  • Google millionaires: Where are they now?

    What would you do if you were flush with $10 million or $100 million? Would you retire, go to work every day at the company that made you rich, or chase other dreams?

  • IBM, Nokia and Sony want to share 'green' patents

    IBM is set to announce the creation of an Eco-Patents Commons -- shared innovations geared at environmental sustainability -- with the participation of Sony, Nokia and Pitney Bowes.

  • Can your PC crack the secrets of the universe?

    Not many insurance company employees can say they help unravel the secrets of the universe in their spare time.

  • Wikia Search unveiled next week

    Wikia Search, a community-driven search engine, will get its first public preview on Monday, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales.

  • XO laptops enter mass production

    Following a number of delays, the One Laptop per Child Foundation's much-awaited XO laptop for needy kids has finally gone into mass production.

  • McNealy keeps busy at Sun

    Despite leaving the chief executive role at Sun Microsystems last year, Scott McNealy is staying active with the company as chairman, and remains as outspoken as ever.

  • XSS flaw makes PM say: "I want to suck your blood"

    The Web sites of Australia's two major political parties contain cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, which could be exploited to fraudulently acquire political donations, say security experts.

  • $100 laptop 'will be sold to the public'

    The One Laptop per Child scheme has announced that it will make its ruggedised laptops available in the US for a limited time period.

  • George Lucas makes school IT smarter

    Star Wars creator George Lucas aims to bring computers closer to education, and in the process deliver practical learning to kids.

  • Telecom NZ makes NZ$1m apology for e-mail woe

    Telecom New Zealand is planning a NZ$1 million donation to charity and a week's free Internet access for its customers, in order to make amends for recent outages in its e-mail service.

  • Search engine privacy report slammed as bias

    The findings of a report that commended the privacy policies of search engine providers such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, has been slammed as bias because of potentially conflicting financial arrangements with the report's publisher.

  • eBay targets Romanian fraudsters

    Online auction site eBay has made public the details of a three-year long campaign to curb online fraud being perpetrated from criminals in Romania -- an effort that has resulted in several hundred arrests.

  • Bill Gates "graduates" from Harvard 30 years after dropping out

    The richest man in the world can now also claim a degree from the college he dropped out of three decades ago.

  • IBM donates new privacy tool to open source

    IBM has developed software designed to let people keep personal information secret when doing business online and donated it to the Higgins open-source project.

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