1. Salesforce talks up Chatter Mobile apps
(News/Top Stories)

The social-networking tool, aimed at businesses, now comes in apps for the iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android devices.Source: CNET News.com  ...

2. Facebook closes hole that let spammers auto-post to walls, friends
(News/Top Stories)

Social-networking site plugs a second hole that allowed spammers to automatically post to people's pages.Source: CNET News.com  ...

3. Solving the wireless Net neutrality conflict
(News/Internet and Network News)

... networks (including the Internet, whose traffic moves through carrier networks for part of the journey) because data usage is growing 10 times as fast as the revenue from data, causing bandwidth shortages ...

4. Google Wave becomes Wave in a Box
(News/Software and Application News)

Google Wave, the social networking service canceled by Google, will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, a Google engineer said this week.Source: Applications - Infoworld  ...

5. Week in review: Apple harvests iPods, Apple TV
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Social-networked iTunes accompanies new iPods, while other companies look for a piece of digital distribution pie. Also: Net neutralitySource: CNET News.com  ...

6. Facebook reacts to Greenpeace anticoal campaign
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Social network gets flak from Greenpeace over its planned giant data center in Oregon, but Facebook says its efficiency will be industry-leading.Source: CNET News.com  ...

7. Apple's Ping dinged by spam
(News/Top Stories)

The new iTunes-based social network is getting hit by comment spam since Apple apparently left it vulnerable through a lack of spam- or URL- filtering, according to Sophos.Source: CNET News.com  ...

8. The hottest virtualization products at VMworld
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...  Network World No Source: InfoWorld Top Stories  ...

9. The InfoWorld news quiz: Sept. 3, 2010
(News/Top Stories)

...  What makes an Apple Special Event special? How about a refreshed line of iPods, lower prices on iTunes rentals, and a new music-oriented social network? But Apple wasn't ...

10. IETF: AT&T's Net neutrality claim is 'misleading'
(News/Top Stories)

A few days after AT&T said its push toward "paid prioritization" of network traffic is backed by technical standards, the Internet's primary standards body disagrees.Source: CNET News.com  ...

11. The mystery of the disappearing Facebook-Ping integration
(News/Top Stories)

On Wednesday, Apple said users of its music social network could find friends via Facebook. But the feature has vanished, apparently over a tiff between the companies.Source: CNET News.com  ...

12. Cisco buys Arch Rock in smart-grid push
(News/Top Stories)

Networking giant to augment its IP-based communications tech with planned purchase of start-up Arch Rock, which makes wireless sensors for buildings, data centers, and utility networks.Source: CNET News.com ...

13. Steve Jobs on why no Facebook for Ping
(News/Top Stories)

Talks with Facebook about Apple's new Ping music social network fizzled, Jobs says, because Facebook wanted "onerous terms that we could not agree to."Source: CNET News.com  ...

14. How Apple's Ping dings Twitter, Facebook
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Ping picks at the good parts of Twitter and Facebook and builds a social network around something for which everyone has strong feelings. Might Ping teach Facebook something about privacy too?Source: CNET ...

15. Apple's fall event: iPod refresh; Apple TV reborn (roundup)
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CEO Steve Jobs unveils redesigns for every iPod model; iTunes 10 features Ping, a social network for music; and iOS 4.2 to unify iPad and iPhone. Plus: Apple TV goes streaming, including Netflix offerings.Source: ...

16. FCC appears to delay Net neutrality rules
(News/Top Stories)

Instead of announcing a vote on new broadband regulations, federal regulators ask for "further inquiry" into whether Net neutrality should apply to wireless networks.Source: CNET News.com  ...

17. Eight great virtual appliances for VMware, free for the downloading
(News/Security News)

... that made hardware-based appliances immensely popular for network security, backup, storage networking, file services, email, and many other single-focus solutions.Source: Security Central - Infoworld ...

18. WashPo writer suspended after Twitter hoax
(News/Top Stories)

Mike Wise, a respected sportswriter at The Washington Post, posts a made-up story on Twitter. He learns that it's unwise to toy in this way with a social-networking site.Source: CNET News.com  ...

19. Xsigo gives Ethernet a path into converged I/O
(News/Internet and Network News)

I/O virtualization vendor Xsigo Systems is tapping into the most ubiquitous network connections around, offering an appliance that lets enterprises carve many virtual links out of the Gigabit Ethernet ...

20. Google buys fifth company for August
(News/Software and Application News)

... or via Facebook on a PC. Most of Google's recent acquisitions have been related to social networking and games, fueling speculation that the company plans to release a new social networking service, potentially ...