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Article | 18/12/2009 Got Facebook privacy concerns? You ain't seen nothing yet

Carnegie Mellon University researcher, Tom Mitchell, says that privacy risks "on a scale that humans have never before faced" hinder real-time data an...

Article | 10/12/2009 Apple plugs in iPhone developers with news feed

Apple this week has taken another step toward better communicating with iPhone developers, launching an RSS feed for iPhone app news.

Article | 17/11/2009 "Unfriend": Oxford's Word of the Year

New Oxford American Dictionary has announced the verb "unfriend" as its word of the year, confirming the social networking term's ubiquity.

Article | 3/11/2009 Motorola Droid vs. Apple iPhone 3GS

Motorola's new Droid 3G smartphone could have what it takes to grab a chunk of the mobile data market and rival the iPhone's success: Big touchscreen ...

Article | 24/10/2009 Week in smartphones: BlackBerry gets Bolder; Verizon invades iPhone territory

Here's a roundup of a wild week in smartphone news. Apple, Nokia, Research in Motion, Verizon, AT&T and others all got in on the action.

Article | 16/10/2009 Husband, wife team arrested for allegedly stealing US$23M from Cisco

Federal authorities arrested a husband and wife team for allegedly stealing US$23 million from Cisco in a scheme that had the network giant shipping r...

Article | 13/10/2009 From Sidekick to Gmail: A short history of cloud computing outages

This past week's Microsoft-T-Mobile-Sidekick data loss mess is the latest in a string of high profile cloud computing outages that have grabbed headli...

Article | 9/10/2009 Cienna was prepared to pay millions more for Nortel's Metro Ethernet business

A mere five days before Ciena (NASDAQ: CIEN) announced it's deal to purchase Nortel's (NRTLQ.PK) Metro Ethernet Networks business, Ciena was prepared...

Article | 29/09/2009 Apple roars past 2 billion app download mark

Apple Monday said it has passed 2 billion applications downloaded from its App Store, a number that promises to balloon further as the iPhone likely m...

Article | 16/09/2009 Google Chrome 3.0 gains zip, style

Google Tuesday launched Version 3 of its Chrome Web browser, which keeps the pressure on competing tools by boosting JavaScript performance by 25% vs....

Article | 9/05/2009 Bill would turn Internet flamers into felons

A little-noticed bill re-introduced in Congress last month would make the use of popular electronic communications a felony if "the intent is to coerc...

Article | 21/04/2009 Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition

iPhone enthusiasts from around the Web offer their visions for the next-gen iPhone

Article | 7/04/2009 Network World: iPhone app: Skype for iPhone

The popular VoIP and chat application makes its iPhone debut. Watch Keith Shaw make a phone call to Jason Meserve.

Article | 7/04/2009 Network World: Imprezzeo's impressive image search engine

Searching for an image based on text is frustrating. But Imprezzeo's new search engine technology lets you find what you're looking for based on simil...

Article | 26/03/2009 Network World: Altec Lansing's Octiv Air streams the iPod tunes

Wireless stream tunes from your iPod or iPhone to the Altec Lansing Octiv Air system up to 100 feet away.