The top 10 stories in IT this week

12.11.2010

6. : Users of Facebook and Twitter vented their fury in posts and calls for boycotts against Amazon after it was discovered that the online retailer was selling copies of a guide to pedophilia, leading Amazon to stop selling the book.

7. : The U.S. Federal Communications Commission joined what seems to be an ever-growing list of agencies globally that are investigating Google and its data collection for the Street View service.

8. : Community banks face a financial threat from the Zeus Trojan, which continues to be used to steal money from accounts, according to speakers at a symposium about cybercrime.

9. : IBM gave journalists a peek at its advanced nanotechnology laboratory due to open in a few months in Zurich.

10. : We're looking forward to next week's SC10 supercomputing conference in New Orleans, which always provides interesting news about the frontiers of high-powered machines.