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• Stella Maris College deploys social network protection for senior students

  Sydney Catholic girls’ school, Stella Maris College, has reduced the risk of Internet threats posed by social networking sites by deploying a Web security gateway.
  

• The 4G ad wars: Evaluating AT&T and Verizon Wireless

  Wireless carriers are battling in print, TV and Web commercials that focus on having the biggest 4G network or the most 4G coverage. All these commercials create a phony issue that doesn't relate to the actual reasons for choosing 4G service or choosing a given carrier to provide it.

• Israel, Palestine take fight to social networks

  As Israeli and Hamas forces continue to clash, firing rockets on each other, they've also launched a war of hashtags, English-language tweets and videos on sites like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Flickr.

• Windows Phone 8 TV ads launch tonight with Gwen Stefani, other celebrities

  Microsoft will begin running four new TV ads for Windows Phone 8 tonight, featuring celebrities Jessica Alba and Gwen Stefani and the live tiles interface in the new devices.

• E-voting machine swaps Obama vote for Romney; taken offline

  An electronic voting machine was temporarily taken out of service in Perry County, Pa., after a voter filmed it changing his vote for President Obama into one for Gov. Mitt Romney.

• Halloween for gamers: Tetris+Pumpkin=Pumpktris

  Just when you thought Halloween couldn't get any geekier, we bring you Pumpktris, a combination of a jack-lantern and the classic game of Tetris.

• Ballmer pitches Windows Phone 8 live tiles in video ad

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touts the personalization features of Windows Phone 8 in a new 46-second video ad.

• Android users embrace Facebook, Google apps

  Google must be pleased to know that Android users aged 18-44 tend to keep their apps all in the family – the Google family, that is.

• Skeptics find flaws in Carrier IQ application analysis

  Only now are some skeptical voices being raised that the case against Carrier IQ may be a rush to judgment without a real, or at least an adequate, basis in fact.

• VMware and Google on an acquisition frenzy in 2011

  While the world has been distracted by HP's baffling $10.2 billion purchase of Autonomy and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>'s surprising $9 billion buy of Skype, EMC/VMware and Google have been snapping up dozens of software companies throughout 2011.

• Mobile video might make carriers, providers clash

  As mobile video finally starts to take off, making money from it remains a challenge, and content providers and carriers may clash over economics before they find a way to share the costs and benefits.

• Allow social media vs. ban social media at work

  The pull of social media is proving hard to resist. Even some of the most buttoned-down institutions are <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/tech-debate-block-social-networks">rethinking bans</a> and relaxing access to social networks and social media sites.

• Google gives Gmail an updated look

  Just a week after Google teased users with a sneak peak at a Gmail redesign, the official updates were released today.

• New bill would target websites enabling copyright infringement

  A new bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would allow law enforcement officials to shut down websites that enable or facilitate copyright infringement, leading some digital rights groups to suggest that YouTube, Twitter and online news sites could be targeted.

• Group: New version of PROTECT IP may target legal sites

  An upcoming version of U.S. legislation designed to combat copyright infringement on the Web may include provisions that hold online services such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube legally responsible for infringing material posted by users, according to one group opposed to the bill.