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Twitter's veracity chewed up by Britney's four-foot vagina Attack of the Tweats Micro-blogging site Twitter had to temporarily suspend accounts belonging to Barack Obama, Britney Spears and other celebrities after they were hijacked by miscreants and used to spread scandalous and false information Former eBay CEO preps for California power post? She'll be back Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman has reportedly cleared the way for taking a pop at Arnold Schwarzenegg Microsoft and Apple: 25 years of couples therapy Saved by a giant head Macworld Expo Microsoft wants you to know that it's not just the Mac that's holding a 25th birthday party: 2009 marks t Sun offers free GlassFish education Repeats download model The secret to business according to Sun Microsystems' chief executive Jonathan Schwartz is to first build volume and then figure out how to make money from the audience you've created.��� VCs still pump dough into green tech, renewable energy Q4 takes a bit of a haircut The economic meltdown has put a damper on a lot of things, but it seems to have been less of a wet blanket for investors in startups in the green technology and renewable energy in 2008 - if you exclude the fina PS2 the most played console of 2008 Xbox beats PS3 to second slot Nintendo may have cleaned up in console sales in 2008, but more US gamers spent their free time time playing Sony' Companies burying themselves in IT gear Doesn't virtualization fix this? The religion of virtualization may be all over the IT trade press, but apparently the data centers of the world haven't heard the good news yet and have been buying up PCs, servers, and storage gear like cr IT salary survey says: ���You���ve never had it so bad��� Dot-com crash a 'cake walk' Compared to the current job market, IT professionals should recall the collapse of the dot-com bubble with a fondness for the good ol' days.��� Linux: this year's silver lining? Watch out Windows and Solaris, says Zemlin With the new year under way and all of the problems in the old year still largely unsolved, people in the IT sector are looking around for a little good news and some prospects for growth. There a Boffin brings 'write once, run anywhere' to Cisco hijacks Curse of the ROMmon A researcher has discovered a way to reliably exploit a known security vulnerability in a wide class of Cisco System routers, a finding that for the first time allows attackers to hijack millions of devices with a singl