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(5:03) This Market Needs an Intervention - and a 12 Step Plan Richard Muirhead, CEO of Tideway, shares his take on technology and the economy from the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. This week's top 25 most-read stories 1. Don't Fear the Penguin: A Newbie's Guide to Linux 2. Online privacy tips for teens... and the adults who ignore them 3. Tech industry's most famous Super Bowl ads 4. Downadup/Conflicker worm: When will the next shoe fall? 5. Google M-Lab provides a window into your ISP 6. HP readies for Cisco's data center assault 7. In Las Vegas, data center takes power and cooling to the limit 8. Open source identity: Linux founder Linus Torvalds 9. Cisco sets data center blast 10. iPhone to get global flat-fee voice service 11. FAQ: How to protect your PC against the Downadup worm 12. Thinking outside the storage box 13. FTC slaps Do Not Call Violators with $1.2 Million in penalties 14. Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage DLC now available 15. 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