Yahoo adds security and workflow management to Hadoop

Yahoo, which has championed the open source Apache Hadoop distributed computing platform, is adding capabilities for Kerberos security and workflow management to the platform.
The company on Tuesday will unveil the open source additions at the Yahoo-sponsored Hadoop Summit 2010 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., and donate them to the Apache Software Foundation.

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Misconfigured Cisco wireless gear could lead to Wi-Fi breach

Users of a popular Cisco Systems wireless access point may be setting themselves up for trouble if they leave a WPA wireless migration feature enabled, according to researchers at Core Security Technologies.
The issue has to do with Cisco's Aironet 1200 Series Access Point, which is used to power centrally managed wireless LANs. The Aironet 1200 can be set to a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) migration mode, in which it provides wireless access for devices that use either the insecure WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) protocol or the more secure WPA standard.

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Apache upgrades Tomcat Web server

Apache Tomcat 7.0, the latest version of the popular open source Java Web server, is available Tuesday from the Apache Software Foundation.
The upgrade constitutes the first major release of the project since 2006. To ease Web framework integration, version 7.0 implements the Java Servlet 3.0, JavaServer Pages 2.2 and Expression Language 2.2 specifications.

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Microsoft Store Places Kinect at $149.99 available for Preorder

The rumors of Kinect's $150 price tag weren't exaggerated--if you buy the unofficially "official" price line from Microsoft's own web store, that is. Microsoft's software store now lists Kinect for $149.99, available for pre-order only.
The disclaimer tells a slightly different story, cautioning that "official pricing has not been announced," and that "$149.99 is an estimate only and subject to change."

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Smartphone Camera Battle: iPhone 4 vs. the Android Army

If a picture really is worth a thousand words, this summer's camera-equipped smartphone pack should save you several minutes on your monthly voice plan.

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iPad: The new halo for the Mac?

Some industry watchers keep questioning whether the Mac has benefited from a “halo effect” from the iPhone. In spite of the naysayers, I suggest that yes, Mac sales bounced from iPhone sales, and history will repeat itself with the iPad.

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SAP set to unveil first app for new 'River' cloud platform

SAP is segmenting its emerging cloud-computing strategy across multiple development platforms, including one code-named "River," which will support lightweight extensions to its on-premises ERP software.
The first River-based application, Carbon Impact 5.0, is slated to be unveiled next month and will run on Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud.

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Web abuzz on talk of Google Facebook killer

Speculation is spreading around the Web that Google Inc. is building a site that could be a Facebook-killer.
The talk spreading virally online is that Google is developing a social networking service, dubbed Google Me. The rumor started to fly after Digg founder Kevin Rose posted a tweet Saturday, saying, "Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon 'Google Me,' very credible source."

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iPhone 4 parts cost Apple just $171

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4 costs the company about $171 to build, a Wall Street analyst said today, giving the new device a profit margin of more than 61%.


Materials and parts for the 16GB iPhone 4 total $171, said Brian Marshall of BroadPoint AmTech, while non-hardware costs such as licensing fees and set-asides for warranty claims add another $35, bringing Apple's total cost to $208. The 32GB iPhone 4, meanwhile, has a cost of materials price tag of $195, and a total cost including non-hardware fees of $230.

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White House backs FCC national broadband plan

The FCC has been under intense political and industry pressure ever since Congress directed the agency to come up with a National Broadband Plan to guide the modernization and expansion of broadband Internet access in the United States. The White House is stepping in, though, to support the FCC plan and proceed with freeing up unused frequency spectrum for use in expanding wireless broadband.

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Microsoft's Bing turns up the heat in war with Google

Microsoft fired another salvo as its battle against Google for search turf heated up this week.
Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled new features aimed at making Bing more than just a search site. Bing was enhanced with an entertainment page that will let users watch TV shows, play games and listen to music -- all without leaving the Web site.

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Pakistan Bans More Web Sites on Religious Grounds

Pakistan has blocked 17 Web sites and is closely monitoring seven other sites and search engines for content considered offensive and blasphemous, according to a spokesman of the country's telecommunications regulator, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA).

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IT wants public and private cloud services, survey shows

Skeptics who disparage the concept of the so-called private cloud and doubt its relevance should think again, according to research from IDC.
In a recent survey, IDC asked IT executives about their preference for using a private versus a public cloud. Fifty-five percent said that a private cloud was more appealing than a public cloud, and 22% said they were equally appealing, said Frank Gens, an IDC chief analyst who spoke on Thursday at an IDC Tech Outlook event in Seattle.

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Aussie ISPs to cut off unsafe Web users?

An Australian government report into cybercrime has recommended that Internet service providers force customers to use antivirus and firewall software or risk being disconnected.

Belinda Neal, committee chair, said in her introduction to the 262-page report, titled "Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime," that due to the exponential growth of malware and other forms of cybercrime in recent years, "the expectation that end users should or can bear the sole responsibility for their own personal online security is no longer a tenable proposition."
"We need to apply the same energy and commitment given to national security and the protection of critical infrastructure to the cybercrime threats that impact on society more generally," she said.

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Apple releases troubleshooting article updates for iPhone and iOS devices

Following the new iPhone's release last week and the availability of iOS4 for other mobile devices, Apple has updated a number of knowledgebase articles that specifically troubleshoot the usability of devices running the new OS. These include errors in receiving MMS messages, inability to connect to data networks, managing accessories, and dealing with multimedia files created on the iOS devices.

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Google Chrome passes Safari in U.S. browser share

Google Chrome is now the third-most-popular browser in the U.S., behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, but ahead of Apple's Safari for the first time, according to a study by Web analytics company StatCounter.

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Google blocks Android games in South Korea

Google is now blocking access to the game category of its own Android Market in South Korea. The reason is that the Korean government threatened to block the entire Android Market to stop Google from violating local laws concerning the sale of games unvetted by government censors and raters.

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A Peek at the Playstation Plus

GamePro learned recently that European PlayStation Network users who bought a one-year subscription to PlayStation Plus would score a free copy of LittleBigPlanet. Now we find that the U.S. gets no such deal, but Plus might still be worth your while right from launch.

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Mobile Broadband Adoption Slows in UK

The number of Brits signing up for Mobile broadband has decreased by 57 percent in the last year, says Broadband Expert.

The broadband comparison website revealed that in May 2010, just 1,300 web users signed up to mobile broadband contracts through the website, compared to 3,000 in May 2009.

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Sexual Assault via Internet

Now, this is different. A computer cracker, Luis Mijangos of Santa Ana, California has been arrested by the FBI for taking over more than 100 Windows PCs and using what he found on them to extort sexually explicit videos from women and teenage girls by threatening to release their personal data.

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Vonage Beats the Anti-Spam Laws

"You Could Save up to 50% on Your Phone Bill!" screamed an email from voice-over-IP vendor Vonage. Naturally, users complained this unsolicited, bulk e-mail was spam. But some spam filters weren't having it -- a surprising number of these messages reached user inboxes. Vonage's marketing agent sent the e-mail from a list of "nonsense" domain names, including the unpronounceable urgrtquirkz.com. Surely that's illegal? Let's find out, in this week's Security Levity...

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Microsoft Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 on Collision Course

Microsoft's Windows Azure and Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud tackle two very different cloud computing technology problems today, but are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud official Tim O'Brien says.

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White House Seeks Comment on Trusted ID Plan

The White House is seeking comment on a draft plan for establishing a trusted identity system online, with the goal of making Internet transactions more secure and convenient.

 

Howard Schmidt, the White House cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to President Barack Obama, released a draft version of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace on Friday.

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US Trade Panel to Investigate S3 Complaint Against Apple

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched a formal investigation into four patent complaints filed against Apple by computer graphics hardware maker S3 Graphics, which asked the agency to block Apple from importing the iPhone, iPad and other products into the U.S.

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Google Gmail to Harness HTML5

In keeping with Google's enthusiasm for the emerging HTML5 standard, many upcoming features of the company's Gmail Web-based e-mail service will be rendered in HTML5, said Adam de Boor, a staff software engineer working on the service.

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Google Moves its Encrypted Search

If you're paranoid about snoops discovering your Web search terms and results, you'll have to start pointing your browser to another URL to use Google encrypted search.
The search giant announced in a blog post on June 25 that its encrypted search service moved from https://google.com to https://encrypted.google.com.

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iTunes music artwork not showing in the Finder

A number of people are reporting an issue with the latest iTunes 9.2 update, where after installing it the Finder no longer displays album artwork for songs when previewing them in a Finder window. This is a relatively minor bug, but one that seems to happen in Snow Leopard. It seems to happen when artwork has been added manually or with third-party tools.

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Google launches HTML5 developer site

HTML5 rocks, Google declared this week. The company launched a developer resource site devoted to HTML5 technologies and is calling it HTML5rocks.com
The budding HTML5 specification features multimedia capabilities for the Web and is being embraced by companies ranging from Google to Microsoft and Apple. HTML5 covers a broad spectrum, said Eric Bidelman of Google Chrome developer relations, in a blog entry.

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Business school swaps Google Apps for Microsoft Live@edu

A French business school plans to trade Google Apps, used by around half its staff and students, for Microsoft's rival Live@edu service.
Skema Business School's 6,250 students, 500 administrative staff and 128 teaching staff will have access to Microsoft's Live@edu hosted e-mail service, which includes calendar and contact management, instant messaging, video conferencing and 10GB of storage space, the school announced Wednesday.

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Hulu subscription service might soon be available on PlayStation 3

Not everyone is entirely enthusiastic about the idea of paying for Hulu, but a subscription for streaming via a gaming console makes a little more sense. That might be possible with Sony’s PlayStation 3 very shortly.

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eBay scans RedLaser barcode scanning app for iPhone

One of my favorite and most used apps for iPhone is RedLaser. The main reason is that it has saved me a ton of money since I first downloaded it for 99 cents.
If you’re not familiar with RedLaser, you simply launch the app and then hold your iPhone so that the bar code of the item you want to scan is in view of the iPhone’s camera. Seconds later it does a lookup to the internet and shows you the prices that the item is selling for at various stores and internet sites.

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Microsoft opens its fourth retail store

Microsoft is opening its fourth retail store on June 24, the same day that Apple is delivering the iPhone 4.
The newest store is in Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego — where there’s also an Apple retail store. The other three stores that are already open are in Mission Viejo, Calif., Scottsdale, Ariz., and Lone Tree, Colo.

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Skype offering up free calls in over 30 countries for one month

Someone at Skype is in a good mood lately. It might have something to do with the U.S. team advancing in the World Cup yesterday, because to celebrate soccer this summer, Skype is offering free calling for a month in countries with World Cup teams.

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Mophie rolls out juice pack batteries for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Apple has improved the battery life on its products over the years. Miraculously, my first-gen iPhone still survives, while I still have bad memories about exchanging my now-extinct iPod Mini every six months because the battery refused to charge.

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6 iPhone 4 tips

Get more from your iPhone 4 by turning on character counts in text messaging, changing fonts for readability, avoiding the "Death Grip," and more.
Turn on character counts in text messaging.
To keep track of text message character counts, go to Settings -> Messages -> Character Count, and flip the switch to "on." When you type a text message, you'll see a character count. The character count started when I got to 30 characters in a quick test.

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Facebook stays with its homegrown infrastructure

Facebook regularly reviews whether to continue using its own data centers or hand off its processing to a cloud service provider, and its operations remain on homegrown infrastructure.
"We look at, probably once or twice a year, does it make sense for us to build more infrastructure in the cloud, and on someone else's backbone, and less for ourselves?" said Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, in an onstage conversation at the Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco. "We've determined, for two reasons, that it doesn't, each time we've done this analysis," Heiliger said.

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Man Charged With Hacking Neighbor's Wi-Fi to Threaten Biden

A Minnesota man has been indicted for hacking into his neighbor's Wi-Fi network and posing as the neighbor to threaten U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and e-mail child pornography, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

The indictment, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, charges Barry Vincent Ardolf, 45, of Blaine, Minnesota, with two counts of aggravated identity theft, one count of making threats to the president and successors to the presidency, one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of distribution of child pornography.

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Senate Panel Approves Controversial Cybersecurity Bill

A U.S. Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the U.S. president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack.

Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the charges that the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act gives the president an Internet "kill switch."

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Chinese Language Top-level Domains Win ICANN Approval

Web site operators will be able to register domain names written entirely in Chinese characters, including the final characters to the right of the last dot, in a matter of months.

Until now, site operators could register Web sites in the Chinese country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) using Chinese characters for all except the final ".cn".

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ICANN OKs .xxx domain name for porn sites

Porn sites may soon be able to tag themselves with a .xxx address now that ICANN has given the new domain name its initial OK.

After denying several requests over the years for a new .xxx top-level domain, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) finally relented Friday by giving the new domain its conditional approval.

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Intel prepares 'Android x86’ for netbooks and Tablets

Intel will ship a fully native x86 version of Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ to developers in the next two months to spur growth of Atom-powered Android netbooks and tablets

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Beware of Phising Amazon emails

I don't know about you, but my inbox has been filling up over the past few days with impressively real-looking spam from Amazon. I get a lot of emails from Amazon anyway but these looked just a little too funky. So naturally I couldn't resist investigating a bit further.

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FTC settles Twitter hacking investigation

An investigation that the Federal Trade Commission launched into Twitter's allegedly lax security practices following two high-profile hacking incidents last year has been settled, the company announced Thursday.

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Red Hat says everybody gets a cloud

At its Boston developer summit Red Hat is pushing the theme that every company can have its own cloud with the first in a line of Cloud Foundation tools.
The offering includes new JBOSS and KVM hypervisor and VMWare support software, a white paper, and a closer relationship with Microsoft.

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Android has remote-kill functionality for apps

In a blog post, Android security lead Rich Cannings said Google had "developed technologies and processes to remotely remove an installed application from devices" for use "in cases where users may have installed a malicious application that poses a threat". The iOS operating system used in the iPhone and iPad gives Apple similar power to remove apps from their customers' phones.

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Apple iPhone FaceTime versus Fring video chat

It wasn't exactly a surprise when Apple demoed video chatting that uses the front-facing camera during the iPhone 4 announcement on June 7.

However, many expected Apple to introduce a Skype-made solution akin to Skype's iPhone app instead of video chat service crafted in-house. The result of Apple's mobile video chatting efforts is FaceTime, which can be roughly considered an iPhone 4 take on the video calling portion of iChat for Mac.

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EU regulations to put a stop to huge roaming charges

Here’s a good move by the EU - put in place regulation to prevent roaming users from running up huge bills.
From July 1st, travelers using mobile data in Europe will be cut off from the internet if they hit a €50 (around $60) ceiling. All mobile operators will also be required to give customers a warning when they reach 80% of the charges ceiling.

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SD Association defines new ultra high-speed symbol for SDXC, SDHC cards

If you’re looking for the fastest SD card out there, make sure there’s an “I” symbol on there as the SD Association has redefined the code for speed.

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Trustwave acquires Breach Security

Trustwave has acquired Breach Security for an undisclosed sum, an acquisition that the company said would bring Breach Security's Web application firewall together with Trustwave's own enterprise security tools.
Trustwave will continue to sell and support Breach Security's Web application firewall, which is designed to filter out attacks that could give hackers access to personal customer data and to an enterprise's internal systems, the company said in a press release.

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HP buys Melodeo

Hewlett-Packard confirmed on Wednesday that it had acquired Melodeo, its second recent acquisition in the mobile market.
HP did not disclose the purchase price. TechCrunch first reported on the acquisition.

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Nokia Declares Itself a 'Software Company'

Nokia says it is now a software company, not a phone manufacturer.
The company began as a rubber works in the 19th century and is well known for its extensive portfolio of mobile phones that cover a range of markets from ultra low-cost phones to high-end smartphones with the latest "must-have" technology.

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International Android to Android Calls Free with New App

Android smartphone users can now place calls to their Android smartphone user contacts around the world absolutely free thanks to an updated app from Rebtel. Based in Sweden, Rebtel--which claims to be the world's largest independent mobile VoIP provider--may not be familiar to many users, but this app may change that.

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Survey Results Paint Android as Technically Superior Also-Ran

Appcelerator has published the results of its most recent app developer survey. The survey--which includes responses from more than 2,700 developers--shows Android in the lead in a handful of categories, but the iPhone OS, or IOS4, is crushing all competitors in every category that counts for businesses and developers.

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Verizon Unveils Droid X Accessories

Motorola and Verizon Wireless unveiled the new Droid X on Wednesday. The device arrives on July 15, and Verizon also previewed a number of accessories for the device, from vehicle mounts (left) and charging cradles to snap-on covers and NFL skins.

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HP and Linux' OEM problem

An Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), the brand name on your PC, wants the software it supports to deal with customers so it can deal with everything else.
By this I mean it wants software with scaled support, and with the marketing heft to help push units through stores. It wants software that will bring people into the stores and keep them off the manufacturer’s back.
Linux has never been able to do this in consumer markets.

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Yahoo: Advertisers to finalize transition to Microsoft adCenter before holiday 2010

The behind-the-scenes work between Microsoft and Yahoo to realize the terms of their ad/sales partnership is moving ahead on schedule, according to Yahoo execs.
In May, the pair provided an update on their plans — which include Microsoft serving up Bing results on Yahoo Web searches and Yahoo becoming the lead online sales agent for the twosome.

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New VLC more open source than ever

Version 1.1.0 of the open source VLC media player, code-named The Luggage, is now available for download, and it is even more open source than ever.
VLC 1.0 is said to have been downloaded 175 million times, 2.1 times each second. So this is a big deal that will generate lots of Internet traffic.

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Cloud computing to grow at 5 times rate of traditional IT, says IDC

Global revenue from public cloud computing services is expected to grow at five times the rate of traditional IT, according to IDC.
As for the hard numbers, public IT cloud services revenue is expected to hit $55.5 billion in 2014, up from $16 billion in 2009. That adds up to a compound annual growth rate of 27.4 percent. Traditional IT product growth is expected to be 5 percent over the same period.

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Microsoft ready with IE 9 developer preview

Like Neowin, I’m hearing from my sources that Microsoft is planning to make available for download later today, June 23, its third technical preview (i.e., pre-beta) of Internet Explorer 9.
Back in March, the IE 9 team committed to providing developers with updates to its IE 9 code every eight weeks.  The team delivered its first developer preview in March, 2010, and made a public commitment to providing more support for emerging HTML5, CSS3 and SVG2 standards with the product. The most recent developer preview was released to the Web in early May.

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Flash Launches on Android

Adobe launched Flash Player for Android 10.1 today--the latest move in the Chess match between Adobe and Apple over the future of interactive mobile ads and video content. Now, the world can begin to experience firsthand whether Flash delivers as expected on smartphones, or if Steve Jobs made the right move in turning his back on the platform.

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Motorola Droid X unveiled

Attendees to Wednesday's New York press conference get a rundown of the new Droid X's features.

(Credit: Bonnie Cha/CNET)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a guest appearance at a press conference here Wednesday where Google, Motorola, and Verizon Wireless unveiled the new version of the popular Android Droid smartphone.
Schmidt took the stage first and touted the importance of the smartphone category.

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OpenDNS Introduces FamilyShield Parental Controls

Your browser is totally reliant on a worldwide collection of DNS (Domain Name System) servers to translate names like www.pcmag.com into IP addresses like 208.19.38.58. Your ISP supplies this service by default while alternative services like Google's Public DNS and the budding Norton Live DNS promise added features or better performance.

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Bing's Update Wants to Turn Search into a Dialogue

Now that summer has officially started, Bing's new release is here. Microsoft's steadily growing Web search challenger to Google is undergoing a renovation, with changes to the user interface and additions to vertical search options like Entertainment, Shopping, Travel, and Autos. A new Bing iPhone app has also been released, with new commerce and social features, including product barcode reading.

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AMD Announces 'Lisbon' Opteron 4000 Chip

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday formally announced its Opteron 4000 series or "Lisbon" processor, which the company says was specifically designed for cloud computing.
The chips are designed for either what AMD calls "hyperscale data centers" or cloud computers with a secondary emphasis on SMB customers. The processors, designed for 1P and 2P systems, are the lowest-power-per-core server processor on the market, according to Gina Longoria, a product manager for AMD.
The first products in the space, the AMD Opteron 4100 chips, are available in either 6- and 4-core options, and can be purchased in either 32-, 50- or 75-watt power bands.

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Verizon Business adds new IP services

Verizon Business today unveiled unified communications and collaboration services that it said are designed to simplify adoption of the technologies and lower costs for business users.
A new IP-based audioconferencing service eliminates per-minute charges for calls originating from a Verizon IP-enabled location.

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Tickets.com attacking Ticketmaster dominance with open cloud systems

There are few monopolies as total as the one enjoyed by Ticketmaster. When's the last time you purchased a ticket online without paying Ticketmaster's $10-plus "convenience fees"?
Ticketmaster has beat back every competitor's attempt to displace it from the top of the online ticketing industry, but John Rizzi, vice president of product management and strategy at Tickets.com, is hopeful that a partner ecosystem based on new cloud computing technologies can eat away at Ticketmaster's dominant market share.

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Microsoft in cloud computing

Microsoft is betting on the cloud to provide the next wave of innovation and opportunities for technologists, businesses and consumers. CEO Steve Ballmer has said that the vendor is "all in" for the cloud, which potentially represents a $3.3 trillionmarket. But where does its cloud computing platform stand today? To gauge Microsoft's cloud momentum, check out our latest news stories, product reports and user adoption stories.

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20 percent of Android apps can threaten privacy

Twenty percent of applications on Android Market let third parties access private or sensitive information, according to a report from security vendor SMobile Systems.
SMobile, which develops software for protecting smartphones, has performed an analysis of over 48,000 applications available on Android Market, and looked at what permissions are granted to the application by the mobile operating system.

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Intel Builds a Private Cloud

Intel's research and development group was the first internal segment to increase efficiency with an infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service approach, improving its server utilization rate from 59 percent in the first half of 2006 to 80 percent today. By reducing infrastructure spending and avoiding building new data center facilities, the company expects to save nearly $200 million. Following this success, Intel decided in early 2009 to build an enterprise private cloud for its office and enterprise groups.

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Apple patches the iPhone but leaves the iPad vulnerable

 As part of Monday's iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical.
Apple released iOS 4 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, and the second- and third-generation iPod Touch on Monday shortly after 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT.

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Apple: FaceTime Will Not Use Airtime Minutes

Apple has confirmed that FaceTime, iPhone 4's new video chat feature, will not consume any minutes of cellular airtime once activated.
A company spokesperson told Business Insider that all cellular voice use is terminated as soon as a FaceTime connection is established between two phones, and all subsequent communication happens through Apple's own transmission protocol over Wi-Fi.

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HP to Sell $300 Netbook for Primary School Students

Hewlett-Packard has put its own spin on Intel's Classmate PC concept, offering a US$300 netbook aimed at students in primary schools.

Designed to handle juice spills and other perils in the life of a young student, the Mini 100e bears a striking resemblance to Intel's Classmate PC reference design, a netbook intended for classroom use.

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Appcelerator warns Apple on possible tool ban

Apple may want to think twice before banning Appcelerator Titanium as a tool for building iPhone and iPad apps, vice president of marketing Scott Schwarzhoff told ZDNet Open Source.
Titanium is good enough, it works well enough, and by gosh, developers like it for building apps.

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Microsoft rolls out new software, services for Apple, Nokia phones

To kick off the week, Microsoft is releasing new software and services for the iPhone and Nokia E series phones.
On June 20, Microsoft began rolling out an updated version of its Windows Live Messenger instant-messaging service for the Apple iPhone. On June 21, it began delivering the unified communications client for Nokia E Series devices which Microsoft and Nokia promised last year would be done by 2010.

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Google's Iterative Web App helps to Compose email on the iPad

Google announced the first major mobile application of its newly rebuilt web interface today, Gmail for the iPad. Although Gmail has always been accessible on the iPad, this so-called “Iterative Web App” fixes a number of bugs on the iPad (particularly related to scrolling, among other issues). It also provides an improved tablet-oriented interface for composing emails.

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WiMax carrier Clearwire offering raises $290M

WiMax service provider Clearwire raised more than $290 million in a rights offering that expired on Monday, building up its war chest while it deploys a national 4G network.
Sprint Nextel holds a majority stake in Clearwire.

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Apple stirs privacy row with iOS 4 policy

Apple may be about to get roped into the privacy policy debate that has dogged other technology companies like Facebook and Google over the past few months. On Monday Apple quietly changed its privacy policy as part of the iOS 4 update to allow the company to collect and share your Apple device's location information, as first reported by The Los Angeles Times.

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EA titles for 99 cents on iPhone

For 48 hours only, you can score some of EA's top-selling games for just 99 cents apiece.

(Credit: EA)

Want to score some top-rated games on the cheap? Now's your chance: Electronic Arts Mobile is having a pretty big sale on 14 popular, high-profile titles.
Games that originally sold for as much as $9.99 are now available for just 99 cents. Here's the complete list of sale titles.

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Popularity is the biggest hack magnet

I frequently tell readers and audiences that the most widely used software in a particular category is successfully exploited the most. I've alluded to this theory as Roger's Hacking Popularity Corollary -- I've also seen it called the "Grimes Corollary" -- though taking singular credit for widespread commonsense may be a bit disingenuous. As the popular saying goes, bank robbers rob banks because that's where the money is.

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Cloud Computing Has Jumped the Shark

At long last, after a couple of years of obsessive coverage by trade rags and analyst firms, I think "the cloud" has jumped the shark. We've been inundated by stories declaring that cloud infrastructure will mark the end of cap ex for IT -- and almost as many articles labeling the cloud as an unreliable, underpowered security nightmare. Is anyone listening anymore? If you ask me, this dog has had its day.

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U.S. Government to Crack Down on Piracy

U.S. President Barack Obama's administration will seek to aggressively enforce its intellectual property laws by putting pressure on countries that don't shut down piracy Web sites and by requiring all government contractors to check for illegal software, the White House announced.

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Salesforce.com Chatter is Social Networking with a Business Twist

Salesforce.com officially launches Chatter today at Cloudforce 2010--the largest cloud computing event of the year. Chatter brings social networking to the enterprise in much the same way salesforce.com brought Web 2.0 to the enterprise--enabling the benefits of social networking to be utilized for new strategic advantages.

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Google Working on Fee-Based News, Music Services

Google is developing services to let consumers pay for access to news articles and songs through individual purchases and subscriptions, according to various news reports.

The system to access fee-based news articles is called Newspass and would give people a single log-in and payment account to access the "paywalls" of multiple publications, according to the reports, which were triggered by an article last week in Italy's La Repubblica newspaper.

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3 million iPads sold in 80 days

Apple has sold 3 million iPads in 80 days.

(Credit: James Martin/CNEt)

In less than 3 months, Apple has sold 3 million iPads, the company announced Tuesday.
For those keeping score at home, that's 3 million in 80 days, and 1 million sold in the last 20 days alone. Apple announced after 60 days that it had sold 2 million of the touch-screen tablets. It took Apple 28 days to sell the first million.

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Apple makes WWDC video sessions free for registered developers

Did you miss out on attending Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this year? Not to worry. If you are a registered developer, you can now download all the session videos from apple.com for free. With more than 100 sessions available in HD or standard definition as well as presentation slides, you will be able to get all the information.

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Three Safari 5 secrets

Since Apple released Safari 5, MacOSXHints.com has been getting a lot of tips for the new browser. Here are three of the best.
Add a refresh button
Since the introduction of Safari 4, I've been missing the dedicated Refresh button in the Toolbar. While there is one available at the end of the location bar, it's much smaller than it used to be and too close to other easy-to-hit targets. Fortunately, someone has taken advantage of the advent of extensions in Safari 5 to bring back the Refresh button.

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PC prices to increase with rising Chinese yuan

People looking to buy new PCs or other gadgets will see prices continue to rise after a move by China's central bank to relax the exchange rate of its currency.
But the rising value of China's yuan against the U.S. dollar isn't the only reason for price increases: It simply adds to other pressures causing PC prices to rise, including shortages of key components and rising labor costs in China.

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Google Voice Now Available to Everyone in the U.S.

Google Voice, which began as an app called GrandCentral before Google bought it back in 2007, is a difficult beast to explain. It's sort of like a phone management system--it gives users one number which, when called, rings however many devices that user wants (cellphones, landlines, work phones, whatever).

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Securing 4G smartphones

">smartphones have typically had both limited storage and connection speeds, they traditionally haven't been as vulnerable  to some of the security threats that have long plagued PCs.
But with the advent of super-powered smartphones and 4G mobile networks, this might be changing. Today's high-end smartphones have storage capacities in the 32GB range and processing speeds that go 1GHz or higher. And once 4G technologies such as WiMAX and LTE become more widely available, smartphones will have average connection speeds of 3Gbps or higher, giving them speeds that http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/01/us-broadband-still-lagging-i... ">approach the average U.S. wireline broadband speed.

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Google releases new version of Froyo

Though it’s not much different from the original version, Google has released a new version of Froyo. FRF72 is the latest version — but you probably won’t be getting it OTA for a while yet.
If you want to jump the gun and install it yourself, feel free. It’s downloadable from Google’s servers

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Intel starts selling fastest Core i3 chip to Dell, HP

Intel is now offering its fastest dual-core Core i3 laptop processor to PC makers including Dell and Hewlett-Packard, which are selling laptops with the chip.
The Core i3-370m will run at 2.4GHz and include 3MB of cache. HP's Pavilion dv6t is selling with the new chip inside.

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Dell in Talks Over Google Chrome OS

Talks are under way between Google and Dell to bring Chrome OS, the search giant's cloud-centric operating system, to Dell's computer lineup, according to a Dell executive.
Dell wants to be "on the forefront" of "unique innovations" like Chrome OS that will hit store shelves in the next few years, Amit Midha Dell's president for greater China and South Asia recently told Reuters.

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Toshiba's Innovative Two-Screen Libretto Tablet

Toshiba announced on Monday a limited edition dual-touchscreen ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows 7 that will be available for purchase from select retailers later this summer. Called the Libretto W100, it could be a challenge to Apple's iPad, suggest some critics; however, unlike Apple's single-panel touchscreen computer, Toshiba's new UMPC sticks to the traditional clamshell design found in most laptops and netbooks. Toshiba did not announce pricing for the W100.

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What Is Your Facebook Data Worth?

The gargantuan amount of high-quality user data on Facebook is causing everyone--from marketers to hackers--to salivate like dogs gazing at a steak. They all want a piece of you.

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Memeo Connect brings Google-hosted cloud storage to desktops

Demonstrating a seemingly small yet important evolutionary step from today's predominantly desktop-bound world of apps and storage to tomorrow's work of cloud-based IT services, Google partner Memeo has unveiled an intriguing upgrade to its Memeo Connect app: the capability for users to seamlessly save files to a hosted hard drive with the same ease that they can save files to a local drive or to an organization's storage network.
With Memeo Connect 2.0, end-users have access to a logical drive, dubbed the GDrive, that integrates with a computer's file system. Though it's effectively a virtual hard drive residing in the cloud, hosted by Google, the GDrive looks and functions exactly like any drive a user would access on his or her machine: It can store any type of file, including executables. It has a clickable icon that can be opened to view contents. Users can drag and drop files to and from the GDrive for copying, or save files to it directly from any application.

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Verizon to launch cloud storage service

Verizon Business is set to announce a cloud-based storage service on Tuesday, leveraging the formidable Verizon Communications global data network as a draw for large enterprises to subscribe.
Starting in October, the company will launch storage facilities at Verizon data centers around the world. These facilities will be provided by cloud storage provider Nirvanix but will be located in the carrier's data centers, on its global IP network, said Patrick Verhoeven, manager of cloud services product marketing.

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Researchers find 12 zero day flaws

Security researchers from TEHTRI-Security, have found twelve zero day flaws targeting five of the most common web malware exploitation kits such as Neon, Eleonore, Liberty, Lucky and the Yes exploitation kits.

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Acer predicts to surpass HP as world's top laptop vendor before 2011

Acer Chairman J.T. Wang has predicted that his company will become the world’s biggest mobile computer supplier by the end of 2010, after first quarter results surpassed that of Hewlett-Packard - the current leader.

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Verizon Wireless eyeing tiered data service

Verizon Wireless is toying with the idea of eliminating its unlimited data plans and switching to tiered pricing, according to its parent company's chief financial officer, John Killian.
In an interview with Bloomberg's BusinessWeek, Killian said, "We will probably need to change the design of our pricing where it will not be totally unlimited, flat rate."

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FCC sets sights on satellite spectrum

The Federal Communications Commission is looking to free up spectrum allocated to satellite services as the agency moves forward on plans to get more spectrum in the market for wireless broadband services.
The agency said in the National Broadband Plan issued in March that it planned to make 300MHz of spectrum available for wireless broadband use over the next five years. To meet this goal, the agency has suggested getting about 120MHz of spectrum from TV broadcasters. And now it's planning to reclaim 90MHz of spectrum from the Mobile Satellite Service band, or MSS.

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Good Technology boosts iPhone security controls

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When an employee at AIM Media lost his iPhone containing company e-mails and other sensitive data last year, there was nothing to be done except hope that whoever found it didn't care to snoop.

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Use a Smartphone to Control Your PC or Media Center

So I'm testing this super-cool Lenovo system that would make a perfect media center for the den. It's an all-in-one, meaning there's no bulky tower--just a screen, a base, and a wireless keyboard and mouse.
What it's missing, however, is a remote, which is shame given that it has a built-in TV tuner. How am I supposed to kick back on the couch without a clicker?

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Icera files antitrust complaint against Qualcomm

Qualcomm faces another antitrust complaint in Europe, this time filed by Icera, a U.K. fabless semiconductor company.
"We understand that matters are at a very preliminary stage and we are currently reviewing the allegations," Qualcomm said in a statement. The company said it believes the allegations are meritless and that it will cooperate with the European Commission's investigation.

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Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive

Initial attempts at boosting magnetic hard-drive performance with a dose of flash memory fell flat; these so-called hybrid hard drives, released by Seagate and, in smaller quantity, by Samsung, didn't deliver on their promised speed gains. Now, nearly three years later, the concept of the hybrid drive gets new life, with the Seagate Momentus XT, the second generation of hybrid drive that mixes flash and hard disk. But does this drive deliver a measurable performance boost over its standard hard-disk cousins?

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Researchers ask whether multitouch devices cause physical stress

Mulittouch interfaces are gaining popularity, but little is known about whether the finger flicking done on devices like the iPad or iPhone put undue stress on our bodies.
A team of researchers led by Kanav Kahol of Arizona State University is beginning to study whether long-term use of multitouch devices could lead to musculoskeletal disorders. The team, supported by a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, includes computer interaction researchers, kinesiologists and ergonomics experts.

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OCZ releases 1.8-in. SSD line for upgrading netbooks, tablets

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. today released a series of 1.8-in. solid state drives (SSD) to offer a storage upgrade for products such as netbooks, ultra-thin notebooks and tablets.
The new drives have the same performance as their larger 2.5-in. counterparts, which are sold under the Vertex and Onyx product names, and come with a three-year warranty and are rated for 2 million-hour meantime between failures.

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Toshiba parties with lighter laptop and Android smartbook

Toshiba has spent the last 25 years refining the basic laptop design of flat screen, x86 processor, full-size keyboard and removable storage. Its Portégé R700 will continue that tradition when it goes on sale next quarter, but two other new portable computers Toshiba will release around the same time take the company in new directions.

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iPhone management tools step it up with iOS 4

There's one big new reason today for corporate IT to embrace the use of iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads for business email and network access: Apple has released iOS 4.0 (the new name for the iPhone operating system). iOS 4 includes enterprise management capabilities for the iPhone 3G, 3G S, and 4; the second-generation and later models of the iPod Touch; and the iPad. And the major mobile management tool providers have simultaneously announced iOS 4-specific updates to their products.

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Security software lags explosion of new malware

New research has further confirmed the difficulties security software companies are having keeping up with an explosion in malicious software programs on the Internet. Security software from major vendors can take an average of two days to block a Website designed to attack a computer visiting it, according to the latest report from NSS Labs, which tested security software suites against fresh malware released on the Internet.

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Intel's Westmere-EX increases the core count

Intel's next-generation processor code-named Westmere-EX may include more cores than the company's current server chips, according to the title of a paper about the chip announced on Sunday.
Intel will present a paper, called "Westmere-EX: A 20-Thread Server CPU," at the Hot Chips 22 conference, which will be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California between Aug. 22 and 24.

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Cloudera, Quest to link Hadoop to Oracle

Cloudera and Quest Software are unveiling on Monday plans to build software to connect the popular Hadoop data management platform to Oracle databases.
Code-named "Ora-Oop," the free software will accommodate users who need to link relational data in Oracle databases with the data handled in Hadoop, which serves as a large-scale storage and computation engine, said Michael Olson, Cloudera CEO.

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India's outsourcers tap into low-cost rural labor pool

India's outsourcing companies are clamoring to locate back-office operations in the country's small towns and villages to tap a low-cost labor pool, said Som Mittal, president of India's National Association of Software and Service Companies.

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Church offers live services via iPhone, iPad

St Andrew's Church in Bo'ness, West Lothian, Scotland is offering a chance for Apple iPhone and iPad owners to watch the latest services live.
The Rev Albert Bogle has teamed with congregation member Neil MacLennan to screen its services in real time. "We tried the technology last weekend and I was able to sit in my car on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh and watch the morning service live," MacLennan told The Herald. "Essentially you could watch the service anywhere which had a 3G network."

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Microsoft to boost Bing's music, TV, movies, game search

Microsoft will unveil new features next week to enhance the Bing search engine's capabilities to search for entertainment-related content, specifically in areas such as music, television, movies and online games.
The announcement will be made on Tuesday by Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's Online Audience Business, at a press conference in West Hollywood, California, according to an invitation Microsoft sent to journalists.

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Protect Windows XP from Zero-Day Flaw in HCP Protocol

Earlier this week was Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for June--a busy Patch Tuesday with ten new security bulletins fixing 34 different vulnerabilities. However, there is now a publicly disclosed vulnerability with potentially dire consequences that didn't make the list of patches this month. IT administrators need to understand the risks, and act now to mitigate the threat and protect Windows XP systems from the HCP protocol vulnerability.

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GoogleCL: Control Your Google Apps From the Command Line

As of today, true nerds, geeks, and Internet trolls can perform their Googling tasks straight from their Terminal window with a new program called GoogleCL. The GoogleCL tool can be used for your Blogger, Calendar, Contacts, Docs, Picasa, and YouTube and is supported by Windows, Linux, and Mac.

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Web Browsers in Future

What will your Web browser look like in 2015? Five years doesn't always bring dramatic change to some technologies--today's desktop PC, for instance, isn't that different from its 2005 predecessor--but browsers are undergoing major changes that will alter our day-to-day computing lives.

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5 Useful iPhone Apps for Business Networking

 

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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 70% of all jobs are found through networking. It’s no surprise, then, that so many businesspeople are on the lookout for tools to improve their networking skills. With the growing collection of business apps in the App Store, the iPhone is becoming a portable toolkit for business professionals everywhere.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X8

Did you love what you saw when Sony Ericsson announced their mid-range Xperia X8 yesterday?
Are you longing for a little more than a few press shots and a photo of the various colours?
Have I got a hands-on video? Yes! Yes I do!

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Digital Storm announces Special|Ops gaming computers

Digital Storm just announced their latest PC, the Special|Ops. Intended mainly for the gaming fanatic, the Special|Ops runs the latest is CPU/GPU technology, and comes boxed in a quite attractive and well ventilated case. Of course they’ve already brought us the Black|Ops and the Black|Ops Assassin, so I think we’re starting to see a trend here.

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Verizon makes the Droid X official a few days earlier than expected

The Android arena is a tough one to play in, man. One manufacturer might have the baddest handset on the block one week, only to have the competition release a superior monster-of-a-phone a week later. The rate at which these things are being cranked out doesn’t give the carriers — or their customer — any time to figure heads from tails.

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Inside the Xbox 360 Slim

 

Wondering what’s in the new Xbox Slim? No? Well tough, it’s a slow news day, and I’m writing about it, so you’re just going to have to read it. Microsoft has been hard at work on the the 360 Slim for a while and it’s only fair that you pay attention and see what’s they’ve done to improve the original hardware and make the new system run cooler, quieter, and more efficiently.
AnandTech took theirs apart (you didn’t think I was going to crack mine open did you?) and found out that Microsoft hasn’t just improved the appearance, they’ve updated the CGPU (to a 45nm), changed the cooling so it won’t sound like a jet airplane taking off, and even reduced the power consumption by 50%. Sounds like a much better console to me.

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Motorola Droid 2

You love Motorola, don’t you? You’ve been rockin’ each of their models before even the RAZR was cool. So you’ve no doubt been excited by the upcoming sequel to the brought-moto-back-from-fiery-doom Droid: the Droid 2.

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LinkedIn Tops 70 Million Users

 

Professional social network LinkedIn now has 70 million members, according to the company’s home page. The company hit 60 million users in February, and has been growing fast, especially in international markets. LinkedIn’s network’s CEO, Jeff Weiner, stated in a blog post last fall that half of LinkedIn’s membership is international. The company is also listing one million company profiles, which are similar to a user profile.

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iPhone 4 Ups the Ante in the Smartphone Wars

Overrun by more than 600,000 pre-sale orders on the first day of its launch this month, Apple's iPhone 4 looks to be the biggest selling smartphone ever. The sheer volume of pre-sales clogged Apple and AT&T's order-taking systems.
So will this "Apple Tuesday" be known as the day that launched millions of new iPhone owners and signaled the end of the smartphone wars?

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3.7 Billion Phishing E-Mails Sent in the Past Year

Cybercriminals sent 3.7 billion phishing e-mails over the last year, in a bid to steal money from unsuspecting web users, says CPP.

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Google TV Finds its First Champion

Google TV now has at least one real retail product firmed up: the Logitech Revue, scheduled to ship this fall. This is a set-top box that's supposed to bring the Google TV experience to your existing home entertainment center.

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MobileMe May Find Its Niche in Small Business

MobileMe has always seemed like a hard sell in the consumer market. For $99 a year, Apple's suite of Web-based services delivers...<drum roll>...e-mail! A calendar! Online apps and storage! Yep, stuff you can get for free elsewhere.

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Android vs. iPhone: 5 Battlefields

Apple's iPhone and Google's Android smartphones are getting set for another epic battle next week as these two titans of the smartphone industry show off their latest devices.

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Dell Unveils Colorful Inspiron Laptops

 

17-inch Inspiron R modelsDell today announced U.S. availability of the sleek new Inspiron R laptops first launched a few months ago in parts of the world such as Australia and India.

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Apple releases Find My iPhone app

Apple has released a new app to help users track lost iPhones on the go. Find My iPhone does what the Web application version, found on me.com, did previously but allows users to log in from another iPhone or iPad to help in the search.
True to Apple form, the interface is simple, elegant, and easy to use. Users need only log in to the application using their MobileMe user name and password to begin finding their lost iPhone or iPad. Each device connected to the user's account will show up and begin to be tracked, appearing on a Google Map once it is found.

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AdMob Deal Breakdown

Thanks to an SEC filing, another detail emerged today about Google’s acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob. We already knew the $750 million Google-AdMob acquisition was a cash and stock deal but we didn’t know the breakdown between the two. According to an SEC filing submitted by Google today, the search giant sold $530 million worth of stock as part of the deal, indicating that AdMob (and its investors) may have taken home the remainder, $220 million, in cash (because of some accounting issues, this number may not be exact).

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Appbistro Lands Wildfire For Its Facebook App Market

Last month at TechCrunch Disrupt, we saw the launch of Appbistro, a marketplace for Facebook tab applications that help companies and brands flesh out their Facebook Pages. Developers like it because it gives them an easy way to charge for their applications using Appbistro’s payments system (previously there wasn’t an easy way to charge for Facebook apps). And today, Appbistro is announcing that it’s landed a deal to distribute Facebook apps from a significant new partner: Wildfire Interactive.

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The Best iOS 4-Ready Apps So Far

 

We all know that the iPhone 4 launches this coming Thursday. But on Monday, current iPhone users get an early treat in the form of iOS 4, the new iPhone operating system (formerly known as iPhone OS 4). It comes with several enhancements, but the ones people seem most excited about involve multitasking (or background tasks). A little over a week ago, Apple began urging developers to submit their iOS 4-ready app, and a number of them have. And actually, some have already been approved, or will be shortly.

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Facebook For iPhone

 

There was a time when Facebook was at the forefront of mobile app development. Before there was even an App Store, the web app Facebook put out that was optimized for the iPhone was brilliant. Then the App Store came and with it was a great Facebook native app. Then came version 3 of the app, which was even better. Those days, sadly, are long over.
Everyone already knows that the Facebook Android app sucks. The iPhone app, though, thanks largely to version 3, has remained a bright spot. But while some people are gushing today over the latest iPhone update (3.1.3, the first update in a while), I’m not one of those people.
First of all, Facebook still has yet to release a native iPad app. This is pretty ridiculous considering that undoubtedly a high percentage of the millions of iPad owners have searched the App Store for a Facebook app, and come away with only imitations (which Facebook has demanded be taken down). As I noted above, the original Facebook app for iPhone launched alongside the App Store itself. We’re now almost 3 months post-iPad launch, and there is absolutely no word about when we can expect an iPad app.

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The New Digg

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Social news site Digg is set to launch a large overhaul of its service very soon. The new site has already entered Alpha testing, and one such tester has leaked screenshots of the new interface.
Manmohanjit Singh uploaded the shots below, which we found courtesy of The Next Web. Singh claims he is not an Alpha tester, but that he received the images from a friend.

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Facebook Hit $800M in 2009 Revenue, Sources Say

$800 million? That's a lot of advertising and, to be honest, a somewhat-unexpected amount of revenue for Facebook to be generating per year. But that's the figure, according to two sources that briefed the New York Daily News about Facebook's apparent financial success. As well, the sources have maintained that Facebook's profits for 2009 pushed the company into the black--a tantalizing metric for those dreaming of cashing in on a potential Facebook IPO.

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Nintendo CEO reveals how company toiled for years on 3DS concept

Satoru Iwata, chief executive of Nintendo, proudly waved the Nintendo 3DS on stage this week as the company showed off a surprisingly well received handheld game player that can depict movies and games in 3D without the annoying 3D glasses. We caught up with Iwata at the end of the E3 video game convention to talk about how Nintendo created the handheld, which was the talk of the show. Here’s the transcript of the interview.

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