FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the agency's highly anticipated broadband plan will call for improve online safety for children and greater access to broadband service for the poor.

• FCC Mulling Free Broadband Plan, Again
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Information technology honchos are well represented in the latest Forbes magazine's list of billionaires with Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and the Google guys among the world's wealthiest.

• Microsoft Loses Another Round in i4i Case
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• IDC Says the Cloud Ready for Prime Time
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Flaws originating in WebKit are chief among the issues addressed in Safari 4.0.5.

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• NoSQL Supporters Challenge Relational Databases
• Google Unveils Apps Marketplace

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The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites gets targeted by criminals who may have gained access to travelers' credit cards.

• McAfee's Got the Skinny on Scareware
• Researcher Releases Exploit for IE Zero-Day Hole
• HSBC Breach Exposes 24,000 Clients' Data
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CA makes another cloud computing acquisition, picking up IT performance and availability monitoring software vendor Nimsoft in all-cash deal.

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• Microsoft-Sponsored CodePlex Moves Ahead
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Microsoft has been previewing a radical redesign of its MSN home page since last fall, but now it's time to start pushing it out to MSN's 100 million U.S. users.

• Twitter Takes Geo-Location Feature Live
• Awareness Helps Firms Manage Social Networks
• Twitter Surpasses 70,000 Apps
• Viacom Yanking 'Daily Show,' 'Colbert' From Hulu

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After a long time on the sidelines, Intel rival AMD is getting into the netbook game with a dedicated chip designed specifically for computers with screens 12 inches or smaller.

• Apple off to a Smooth Start With iPad Launch
• Microsoft Veteran Thacker Scores Turing Award
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Microsoft's Bing search engine managed to gain market share again in February, but its success isn't exactly sending Google running for cover.

• Google, Microsoft & Yahoo Tout Real-Time Results
• Ballmer Happy With Bing's Progress
• Google Snaps Up Picnik
• Google Faces EU Investigation

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