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• Facebook Considers 'Panic Button' for Kids in UK Officials of the social network met with British officials to discuss adding a single-click connection to child protective services and other safety resources.
• FCC Website Pushes Emergency Wi-Fi Plan The agency's proposed National Broadband Plan includes a $16 billion national wireless network for emergency services.
• "iPad Killer" May be Palm's Last Hope Palm is losing the smartphone battle, but could rebound by returning to its PDA roots and creating a WebOS tablet to take on the iPad.
• How to Secure or Find Your Android Smartphone If you ever lose your phone, you'll want to find it or make sure that if it's truly lost, you can protect your private information.
• Sky Downloader Helps You Pull Music and Video From the Web Search for, download, and play media files with Sky Downloader.
• Toshiba Satellite M505-S4020 Glitters But Isn’t Gold Pretty case design and sufficient speed can’t compensate for missing features.
• HP Mini 5102: A Good, but Expensive, Netbook for Business The price skyrockets as you pile on the options, but this is a great all-day netbook for business travelers.
• To Fight Scammers, Russia Cracks Down on .ru Domain Russia is making it harder to register .ru domains, in a bid to crack down on inappropriate content.
• IPad Cases and Bags Galore Curious about the options out there for protecting your new iPad? Here's a look at some of the bags and cases on the way
• World Tech Update: Knockoff iPads, HTC's New Smartphone, and more... Knock-off MacBook Air laptops and iPads go on sale, HTC’s HD2 smartphone comes to the U.S., battling robots, and more...
• Ex-MySQL Chief Marten Mickos Lands New CEO Job Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos has taken a new job as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company said Friday.
• Hey, Apple TV: Wake Up and Smell the Google TV
• Pitch Imperfect: 10 Lousy Celebrity Endorsements A roundup of the worst celebrity product endorsements, including tech companies that really should have known better.
• Microsoft Pulls Bing App From Non-U.S. App Stores The iPhone app for Bing, Microsoft's search engine, has been pulled from all international App Stores, according to Neowin.net. However, it remains available for...
• Microsoft Researchers Test Microblogging Service Microsoft's Office Labs is looking for companies interested in piloting an experimental microblogging service.