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April 29th, 2010 by michael.frier

Daily News – 29/04

BBC – Legality of raid on home of iPhone blogger raid queried

The examination of computers belonging to a technology blogger who bought an iPhone prototype has been put on hold.

BBC – Google warning on fake anti-virus software

Fake anti-virus software that infect PCs with malicious code are a growing threat, according to a study by Google.

IT PRO -Data breaches often an insider job
It is time to worry about what those inside your company are doing rather than focusing on external threats, according to the chief executive (CEO) of Cyber Ark.

IT PRO – Will BlackBerry 6 OS help level the mobile playing field?
For over a decade RIM has been delivering push email, calendar and contacts integration and all-day battery life but despite boasting more than 40 million BlackBerry users, in recent years first iPhone and then Android have challenged the popularity of the BlackBerry.

Information Age – HP to buy mobile device maker Palm for $1.2 billion

Hewlett-Packard has agreed to acquire Palm, a US mobile device maker whose financial performance during 2009 was one of the worst in the technology industry.

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February 17th, 2010 by Steve

Daily News 17/02

Silicon.com – BlackBerry: ‘Blazingly fast’ browser and ‘super-apps’ unveiled

BlackBerry-maker RIM has given a glimpse of the next-generation of the BlackBerrry web browser that will be based on WebKit technology.

BBC – SeeSaw internet TV service launches in UK

SeeSaw’s online TV service has launched in full for British internet users after less than a month of beta testing on 20,000 users. The service offers viewers the chance to catch up for free on 3,000 hours of archive and recent programmes from the BBC, Channel 4 and Five.

BBC – Facebook launch ‘Zero’ site for mobile phones

The world’s biggest social network has revealed details of a stripped-down, text-only version of its mobile site called Facebook Zero.

Computerworld UK – Google Android & processor squeezed onto SIM

The SIM cards in cellular telephones might be smaller than a postage stamp and less than a millimetre thick but that hasn’t stopped South Korea’s SK Telecom from cramming all the major components needed to run Google’s Android OS inside one of them.

The Daily Telegraph – Steve Jobs to ‘cooperate’ on his first official biography

Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, is allowing and helping an author to write his official biography for the first time, according to reports. Several authors have written biographies about the man who reversed Apple’s fortunes, but they have all been without Jobs’s consent or help.

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