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• LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

  A court has rejected LinkedIn's effort to stop a San Francisco company from using information that its users have deemed public.

• Kiwi firms can be naive when entering US market: KLP

  Many companies are entering the New Zealand market with naivete, says Catherine Robinson, director of Kiwi Landing Pad (KLP) in San Francisco.

• Judge vacates three charges against SF network admin

  A San Francisco Superior Court judge has dismissed three of the four felony charges brought against Terry Childs, a former network administrator who was arrested last year for allegedly sabotaging a crucial city network.

• Sabotage of San Francisco IT dept raises questions

  What do you do when a network administrator goes bad? That's the question IT staffers for the city of San Francisco are facing. One of their own, a net admin named Terry Childs, was arrested for sabotaging the city government's new fibre backbone network.

• Look out, here come the Digital Bedouin

  San Francisco Chronicle journalist Dan Frost wrote a nice piece about local digital nomads he called Bay Area Bedouins recently. Unlike the desert-dwelling originals, these are people who work for San Francisco start-up companies without offices. They roam from one coffeehouse to the next, working wherever they find a wi-fi connection.

• SF wi-fi idea draws mixed response

  While backers say free wi-fi in San Francisco will bring a wide range of benefits and critics fear a Googlistic Big Brother, ordinary locals and visitors to the city have another take on the controversy — or don’t even know about it.