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Bank of America Toughens Web Security (AP)
AP - Bank of America Corp. is rolling out a new security system aimed at thwarting efforts by online crooks to access its customers'accounts. Passwords will no longer be enough.

Microsoft and Marvel ink online game deal (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursdayit won exclusive rights to develop and publish multiplayeronline games starring Marvel Enterprises Inc.'s super heroes,including Spider-man, the X-men and the Hulk.

Sun Open-Sources ID Management Tools (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), continuing efforts to lift the lid on portions of its source code, now is open-sourcing its Internet authentication and single-sign-on (SSO) technologies through the OpenSSO project.

'Bookmark'keeps literary pretension in its place (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - In Bookmark Now, Kevin Smokler delivers just that as the editor of this provocative, irreverent and optimistic collection of essays by 24 young writers. They have come of age in the digital era but remain passionate about books as well as blogs and Web sites.

In Brief: IBM offers free technologies to universities (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - IBM announced an initiative to give universities free access to emerging technologies developed in IBM Research labs. The new Academic License program aims to accelerate development skills around open standards-based technologies.  In return, faculty and students will provide IBM with feedback on the technologies. The new program is open to academic institutions participating in IBM's Academic Initiative. More than 1,400 schools are currently part of the initiative, which aims to encourage students to enter the fields of science and mathematics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be the first universities to participate in the new program. Professors can get a list of the technologies and download them at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/academic .

ABC's'Hooking Up'is sex in the city for real (Reuters)
Reuters - A new documentary television series"Hooking Up"follows 11 New York women navigating the pitfallsof online dating in a show that one reviewer calls"hard-corevoyeurism."

E-commerce begins to come of age 10 years after birth (AFP)
AFP - A decade after Amazon.com led a cyber-shopping revolution that threatened to demolish bricks-and-mortar stores, rash web sites have perished while the sage have evolved to survive.

Internet speed battle heats up (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Comcast, the Bay Area's dominant cable provider, said Tuesday that it will upgrade customers to a faster broadband Internet connection this summer -- up to 6 megabits a second for most subscribers.

Review: Podcasting Easy for Everyone (AP)
AP - My introduction to podcasting— the convergence of iPods, broadcasting and the time-shifting that TiVo popularized— came when Apple's iTunes recently began making podcasts available for download.

Drawing clues from the covers (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - The clues are in the cover. Or so goes the chatter on HP Web sites. The cover on all three editions of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- the U.S. edition from Scholastic, the U.K. edition from Bloomsbury and the deluxe edition - seem to emphasize the relationship between Professor Dumbledore and Harry, says Melissa Anelli of the-leaky-cauldron.org.