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Apple has released a software patch to address a recently described security flaw in the iPhone. Experts revealed on Thursday that modified SMS messages could result in iPhones being disconnected from the network or hijacked altogether. Apple said phones incorporating other mobile operating sy
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A mega partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft, nearly a year and a half in the making, may finally be nearing reality. The two technology giants are said to be close to finalizing a search advertising deal, according to AllThingsD. Microsoft would sell search engine ads for both companies whi
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A community implementation of .NET is splitting in two, hoping to protect Linux and open-source against potential patent claims from Microsoft. The Mono Project plans to split between a core set of APIs that are based on ECMA specifications of Microsoft's C# and Common Language Infrastructure
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Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will launch a tiny new laptop starting in August, the company's belated entry into the growing but cutthroat "netbook" PC market. The new addition to its Vaio line of computers will cost about $500 in the U.S. and 60,000 yen ($630) in Japan when it goes on sale next
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It's Twitter day at Microsoft, apparently. Not only did the software giant announce that it would start adding tweets to its Bing search results, the company actually started officially using Twitter today. To be clear, Microsoft had a rather large presence on Twitter before through its various d
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Teen air crash survivor clung to debris in ocean for 12 hours The 14-year-old girl believed to be the only survivor of a Yemenia jetliner crash off Comoros was thrown from the plane amid darkness, she tells her father. The 14-year-old girl believed to be the lone survivor of a yemini jetli
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Google says it will take "all necessary steps" to remove pornography from its Chinese language portal, Google.cn The firm was responded to criticism from China's internet watchdog which said Google was "disseminating pornographic and vulgar information". Google has been warned twice about allo
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Iraqi police say early morning bomb attacks have killed at least 11 people in different areas of Baghdad. A car bomb exploded on the road to the government compound known as the Green Zone killing at least five people. Another attack in the eastern Sadr City area killed three students on a min
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British scientists have developed a portable microwave scanner to help police identify individuals carrying concealed guns and knives. It is small enough to be used covertly, at some distance from the subject. The device is based around microwave radar technology and is designed to pick up the
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BEIJING -- China plans to require that all personal computers sold in the country as of July 1 be shipped with software that blocks access to certain Web sites, a move that could give government censors unprecedented control over how Chinese users access the Internet. The government, which
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