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Four months ago, amidst a backlash from government regulators and privacy advocates, Google stopped collecting Wi-Fi data with its Street View cars. But that doesn’t mean Google has stopped collecting wireless data altogether, and neither have other companies such as Apple.

Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.

How to hack your location using Facebook Places through your mobile phone or a geo-aware web browser.

The bidding duel between Hewlett-Packard and Dell over 3PAR took over IT news headlines this week with a dizzying back-and-forth flurry of increased bids. Meanwhile, DLL attacks are keeping IT security pros up at night and a top official said that the Pentagon got a security-related wake-up call when a low-level worm caused a serious systems breach.

Facebook and Twitter users are complaining about their accounts being compromised and then being used to spam friends with suspicious “free iPad offers.”

Apple’s new iOS 4 operating system for iPhone 3G and above pays close attention to your location, in good and maybe not-so-good ways.

Users of Apple’s iTunes services should keep a close eye on PayPal and credit card statements for fraudulent iTunes charges.

With its new location-based Places feature, Facebook may have just lit the match that will ignite another round of privacy controversy.

Google on Thursday patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, but did not award any of the researchers who reported bugs the new top-dollar reward of $3,133. Google’s most serious threat rating, seven labeled “high” and another pegged as “medium.”

Intel’s acquisition of security company McAfee could help the chip maker make a splash in the handheld and embedded markets, in which the company has struggled to establish a presence, according to analysts.