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Appellate court unanimously sides with New York City school officials, dismissing parents' arguments that the policy is too broad and interferes with their ability to reach their kids.

Watch this space for live updates from Apple's keynote presentation Tuesday inside San Francisco's Moscone Center, starring Phil Schiller.

Company sees big opportunities in the connected home as it prepares to launch its first media-centric products at the Consumer Electronics Show.

The Chinese government has intensified its campaign against sexually-explicit Internet material by instructing companies including Google to curb the readily availability of pornography.

Mac users will be first to see new features such as screen sharing and an integrated Wi-Fi hot spot connector.

The Moto Surf A3100 is a Windows Mobile smartphone with a touch screen.

AMD is introducing new chips at CES that target the no-man's land between Netbooks and notebooks. Enter HP's Pavilion dv2.

Sling Media declares a deadline for its upcoming SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone, and reveals a new trick in the app's retinue.

Speculation about the former eBay chief executive running for California governor is growing, with the latest hint being that she has resigned from four corporate boards.

Referenced CVEs: CVE-2006-7236, CVE-2008-2383Description:  =========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-703-1 January 06, 2009 xterm vulnerabilities CVE-2006-7236, CVE-2008-2383 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: xterm 208-3.1ubuntu3.1 Ubuntu 7.10: xterm 229-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: xterm 229-1ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 8.10: xterm 235-1ubuntu1.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any running xterms to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Paul Szabo discovered that the DECRQSS escape sequences were not handled correctly by xterm. Additionally, window title operations were also not safely handled. If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted series of characters while in xterm, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands with user privileges. (CVE-2006-7236, CVE-2008-2382)

U.S. Internet users watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, an increase of 34 percent versus a year ago, according to ComScore data.

Moving further away from its one-price-fits-all model, the company will allow top four music labels more price flexibility.

Microsoft said its Xbox 360 had the strongest holiday season of its lifetime, while Sony and Nintendo both tout their own sales success.

In choosing to go public with CEO Steve Jobs' ailments to deflect damaging rumors, Apple may be forced to give regular updates on the health of its founder.

Longtime Server and Tools unit head Bob Muglia is now president of the company's server unit.

Using a slew of social networking services is great, but as Don Reisinger explains, that practice doesn't deliver the most rewarding Web experience. To fix that, Don has compiled a list of services you should use exclusively.

Web searches rise again for Google in November and drop again for Microsoft as U.S. searches overall increase, Nielsen says.

Dell needs a software business to grow, and it could hardly do better than to buy into open source through Red Hat.

This segment investigates breakthroughs researchers have made in identifying what people are thinking by conducting brain scans, and why the Supreme Court might one day get involved.

Company creates unit dedicated to building large-scale power plants using solar-photovoltaic panels.