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February 29, 2008 | Comments: (0)

Daily news beat for Feb. 29, 2008

Yes, you read that date correctly: It's leap year.

U.S. and Canadian agencies seize more than $78 million in counterfeit Cisco gear in an investigation into imports from China.

One day after Google said that JotSpot would be reborn as Google Sites, faithful users of the wiki service cite the lack of an API and limited information about a migration path as reasons for their mixed feelings.

Mozilla is in talks with telcom operators regarding a mobile browser project that, it hopes, will "break open a closed market."

Yahoo, again, is sued by Chinese dissidents, this time for allegedly aiding Chinese authorities by turning over e-mails and other communications that landed one plaintiff in jail.

With Dell, Google, Nortel and Sprint quarterly results underscoring a possible spending slowdown, high-tech stars are falling in investors' eyes.

And, the U.S. FTC lists top targets for ID theft, among the 25 companies that account for nearly half of all stolen identity complaints are a bank and two telcos.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on February 29, 2008 09:48 AM


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