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• BlackBerry OS knocks Apple iOS down a notch

  Apple's iPhone and Google's Android might seem to have all the momentum these days, but RIM's BlackBerry OS is the surprise winner in StatCounter's latest U.S. mobile OS Internet usage numbers.

• Fortinet unveils high-speed security blade for Fortigate-5000 chassis

  Fortinet today introduced a high-speed security blade that combines a slew of capabilities -- including firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, identity-based application controls, anti-virus, anti-spam and Web filtering -- and delivers up to 40G bit/sec throughput.

• NHS link to Facebook raises privacy concerns

  The U.K.'s National Health Service plans to make clearer the privacy policy of its Choices health information Web site, which shares browsing information with Facebook, following complaints from a security expert and a lawmaker, an NHS spokesman said Thursday.

• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

  Our slideshow series picks apart tech's most infamous CEOs. Today, Mark Zuckerberg, it's your turn. This will be less painful than the movie. We promise.

• Open-source social network Diaspora goes live

  Diaspora, a widely anticipated social network site built on open-source code, <a href="http://joindiaspora.com/">has cracked open its doors</a> for business today, at least for a handful of invited participants.

• Facebook dethrones MySpace as social network

  While the battle may have been won some time ago, MySpace seems to be calling "uncle" in its competition with Facebook.

• Zuckerberg talks Facebook Messages, mistakes

  Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says that in the future, messaging will be much more simple than today's e-mail.

• 10 most exaggerated tech terms

  So much in the high-tech world that should be factually airtight-as in: it's either 4G speed or it's not-is, instead, always up for marketing's misappropriation, your CEO's hyperbolic exaggeration or a sales rep's truth bending.

• Facebook Messages: The worst thing that ever happened

  Facebook announced Monday that its new messaging system is blurring the line between e-mail and social networking, but that decision is the worst thing that ever happened.

• Google CEO not worried about Facebook

  The CEO of Google says he's not worried at all about Facebook's new messaging system.

• Facebook Messages: 3 reasons to say no

  Facebook's widely anticipated announcement Monday might have come as a surprise to some. It didn't, after all, announce a new e-mail service as many people had speculated. Not really, anyway.

• Privacy questions trail Facebook Messages

  After Facebook's struggle with one privacy issue after another this year, some in the industry are raising privacy questions about Facebook's new messaging system.

• Hackers, spammers will target Facebook Messages, say experts

  Facebook's revamped Messages will be a very attractive target for spammers, scammers and malware makers, security experts said today.

• Facebook's new message system supports online Office docs

  Microsoft today announced that its Office Web Apps will be integrated with the new Facebook messaging that the latter unveiled early Monday.

• You've got Facemail! Now what?

  I'm fascinated by how technology's center of gravity shifts over time. For a long time Microsoft was the 900-pound gorilla (careful where you stand -- it's got a bad case of gas). More recently Apple and Google have taken turns dominating what we talk about when the topic is tech. Now it's all Facebook, all the time.