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If you're using Password1 change it. Now.

SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney) -- The number one way hackers get into protected systems isn't through a fancy technical exploit. It's by guessing the password. That's not too hard when the most common password used on business systems is "Password1." There's a technical reason for Password1's popularity: It's got an upper-case letter, a number and nine characters. That...

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Windows 8 first impressions

 First impressions of Windows 8, from that Windows Phone-inspired "Metro" user interface to integration of Xbox Live. In one word: "disjointed." (Engadget) * Netflix's (NFLX) contract with Starz expired yesterday, so films like Toy Story 3 andScarface are no longer viewable online. (CNNMoney) * AMD (AMD) is paying almost $334 million for the low-power server maker SeaMicro. (GigaOm) * Video game publisher Blizzard Entertainment is laying off 600 employees...

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WORLD'S MOST ADMIRED COMPANIES

For the 50 most admired companies overall, FORTUNE's survey asked businesspeople to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry. Rank ▾Company 1Apple 2Google 3Amazon.com 4Coca-Cola 5IBM 6FedEx 7Berkshire Hathaway 8Starbucks 9Procter & Gamble 10Southwest Airlines 11McDonald's 12Johnson & Johnson 13Walt Disney 14BMW 15General Electric 16American Express 17Microsoft 183M 19Caterpillar 20Costco Wholesale 21Nordstrom 22J.P. Morgan Chase 23Singapore Airlines 24Wal-Mart Stores 25Target 26Nike 27Exxon Mobil 28Whole...

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