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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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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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Google is looking for solution providers serving the energy market to help utilities get its Google PowerMeter application up and running. PowerMeter is a Google Gadget application that can show consumers their personal electricity consumption on a home computer. It relies on "smart meters" or o
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt says he will not resign his Apple board position despite a government inquiry. The Federal Trade Commission is looking at a possible breach of antitrust laws given Mr Schmidt's directorships at Google and Apple. Both companies have competing browsers and phone opera
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Android 1.5 will allow new features such as soft keyboards, home screen widgets, and speech recognition. Google Subnet, NetworkWorld.com Google Android Looks like the next version of Google's Android OS will actually swallow the features from the "Cupcake" development branch whole. At least
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[caption id="attachment_357" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Twitter.com attacked by worm"][/caption] Twitter has been given the all clear after a worm infected "tens of thousands of users". But experts say the attack could have been much worse. Over the weekend, a self-replicating
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T-Mobile, the first carrier in the world to build a phone with Google's Android platform, is breaking new ground again. This time they are putting Android on a home phone and a tablet computer according to an article in the New York Times. Last week I said putting Android on netbooks make
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Google is giving Gmail users the chance to change their mind and retract an email they have sent. The Undo Send feature lets you abort the delivery of any Gmail message within moments of sending it. Undo Send can be activated from the Settings/Labs tab in Gmail. Once the feature is activat
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This May will possibly be the end of Google selling radio ads. Google paid $102 million to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, a radio advertising company, in 2006. Google told the AP it plans to continue selling TV ads; but unless that branch of business picks up it may lead to more layoffs. In addi
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