SOURCE: BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer Barbara Ortutay, Ap Technology Writer – Fri Jun 3, 11:25 am ET

NEW YORK – It's not Big Brother, but "big business" that Internet users are more worried about.

A new survey found that nearly half of Internet-connected Americans age 16 and older worry about businesses checking what they do online. By comparison, 38 percent worry about the government doing so.

Not that those concerns are stopping people from using the Internet for shopping, social networking and a smattering of other activities. Read more about PRIVACY: Web users worry about privacy from snooping businesses

SOURCE: Barry Levine, newsfactor.com Barry Levine, newsfactor.com – Thu Jun 2, 2:36 pm ET

Mark your calendars: Wednesday, June 8, is World IPv6 Day. On that date, the Internet Society will oversee the first global trial for the new Internet protocol. Read more about NETWORK: World IPv6 Day is June 8th for Testing New Internet Protocol

SOURCE: Mark Hachman - PC Magazine Mark Hachman - Pc Magazine – Thu Jun 2, 10:01 am ET

It's rare when Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo agree - but agree they have, on a standardized list of schemas, HTML code that will allow Webmasters to design Web sites that can be optimized and more easily found on the top search engines.

The three Web giants on Thursday launched Schema.org, a collection of schemas, or HTML tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Read more about WEB: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Standardize Web Tags

SOURCE: Chloe Albanesius - PC Magazine Chloe Albanesius - Pc Magazine – Thu Jun 2, 1:46 pm ET

Malware is apparently the new spam. McAfee tracked more than six million unique malware samples in the first quarter, making it the most active quarter for malware ever.

"It's been a busy start to 2011 for cybercriminals," Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs, said in a statement. Read more about MALWARE: Malware Skyrockets in First Quarter

Google Inc. is blaming computer hackers in China for a high-tech ruse that broke into the personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists.

The breach announced Wednesday marks the second time in 17 months that Google has publicly identified China as the home base for a scheme aimed at hijacking information stored on Google's vast network of computers. Read more about INTERNET SECURITY: Google is blaming computer hackers in China

HP to open WebOS to directly compete with Android iOS and Windows OS.

Before today, experts considered HP’s WebOS (originally Palm’s WebOS before HP purchased Palm) to be more similar to the BlackBerry Phone OS. Initially people presumed that HP planned was going to offer it's WebOS only on its own propretary hardware. It now seems that HP will be following the lead of Google Andriod, and releasing WebOS for use on all hardware manufacturer platforms. Read more about HP WebOS Nearing Release Date

Microsoft has just officially revealed some key details of its soon-to-be released, new and improved Windows 8 operating system for personal computers, laptops, netbooks and touch-screen devices. This innovative next-generation Windows 8 OS, delivers an aggressively redesigned user interface, with a strong focus on new touch-based features that borrow key design elements of the Windows Phone UI operating system user interface. Read more about Microsoft Presents Windows 8

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Virtualization is a technology designed to provide a layer of abstraction between computer hardware systems and the software running on them. It is the process of distributing intelligence throughout the stack by creating a virtual slice of server, network, and storage components with the capabilities to dynamically provision a data center environment. Virtualization decouples the operating system and the services and applications supported by that system from a specific physical hardware platform.

Some common examples of virtualization include: Read more about What Is Virtualization?