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Carol Ann Duffy in The Guardian:

From Harvard Magazine:

A growing number of police departments are turning to mobile camera systems to fight motor vehicle theft and identify unregistered cars.

The cameras read license plates of parked and moving cars -- hundreds per minute -- and check them against vehicle databases, said Lance Clem, a spokesman for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which purchased several systems for its police vehicles last fall.

The number-crunchers at Apple aren't counting just profits these days. Less than two months after it announced three billion applications had been downloaded from its App Store, the computer giant boasted Thursday that its iTunes Store has sold its 10 billionth song.

The lucky music fan who won Apple's download contest -- which for months enticed iTunes users with a $10,000 gift card -- was identified as Louie Sulcer, who, perhaps appropriately, comes from a place called Woodstock (albeit in Virginia, not New York.) Apple didn't release his age or occupation.

One of the largest textbook publishers is taking textbooks where they've never gone before -- to a digital publishing platform that paves the way for professors to customize the material. On Monday Macmillan launched the platform called DynamicBooks.

A new Zeus botnet has been discovered affecting 75,000 systems in 2,500 organizations around the world. Both corporate and government networks have become victims of the severe cyberattack dubbed the Kneber attack, named after the username linked with the attack.

Faster computers, broadband connections and free public Wi-Fi are taking the fun out of snow days.

The federal government was shut down for the second day in a row Tuesday and many offices were empty in the nation's snowbound capital, but work continued -- in homes across the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia region. It showed just how seamlessly well-equipped workers can soldier on even through disruptions such as heavy snowstorms.

From Slaveryinamerica.org:

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