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 AP - The new iPhone application mTrip is a travel guide and then some: It uses the latest in smart phone technology to make it easier to stay on track in a foreign locale. |
| Review: mTrip iPhone app uses augmented reality
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 AP - Worries about spying by the U.S. and Israel spurred plans to sharply limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai's police chief said in comments that suggest a tough line in talks with the smart phone maker. |
| Dubai police chief calls BlackBerry a spy tool
(AP)
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 AP - Dell Inc. doesn't have to start over in its quest to become a significant purveyor of technology for businesses after losing a multibillion dollar bidding contest for an obscure data-storage maker. |
| Dell's enterprise challenge remains after 3Par
(AP)
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| Ben Patterson - Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while you’re on holiday doesn’t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, it’s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while they’re trying to tune out. |
| Able to unplug from work while you’re on vacation?
(Ben Patterson)
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| Ben Patterson - Feel the need to "check in"on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research. |
| Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says
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| Macworld.com - ItâÂÂs a long weekend for many of us and, as you probably know, the term âÂÂlong weekendâ was in fact named after actor Justin Long, who played the part of Mac in the long running Get a Mac ads that concluded earlier this year. |
| Remains of the Day: Justin Long a Mac no longer
(Macworld.com)
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| AP - A German court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s subsidiary YouTube LLC must pay compensation after users uploaded several videos of performances by singer Sarah Brightman in violation of copyright laws. |
| German court rules against YouTube over copyright
(AP)
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| Macworld.com - As you all know, itâs never a proper aftermath of an iPod event without some new cases, and we here at Macworld are more than happy to present some of the first options available for that iPod Touch or Nano in your pre-order basket. From protective covers to eighties-inspired wrist straps, weâve got a little something for every kind of case loverâexcept maybe a wrist-watch adapter for the Nano (and if someone wants to get on that before Halloween, I would be much obliged). |
| Rounding up the new iPod touch and iPod nano cases
(Macworld.com)
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| NewsFactor - Samsung Electronics is predicting it will sell 20 million to 25 million smartphones this year. The company also aims to ship 50 million smartphones in 2011, J.K. Shin, the president of Samsung's mobile communications division, told South Korean media outlet EDaily on Friday. |
| Samsung Expects Galaxy S To Lead Fast Sales Growth
(NewsFactor)
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 AFP - Google has agreed to pay 8.5 million dollars (US) to settle a privacy lawsuit over a Buzz social networking tool added to free email service Gmail in February, according to court documents. |
| Google to pay 8.5 million dollars to settle Buzz case
(AFP)
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 AFP - Google-owned videosharing website YouTube is expected to turn a profit this year on revenue of 450 million dollars, The New York Times reported Friday. |
| YouTube to turn profit this year: NY Times
(AFP)
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| Mashable - In less than two days, Apple's Ping music social network has surpassed the 1 million user milestone. |
| Ping Surpasses 1 Million Users
(Mashable)
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| Appolicious - The free WordPress for Android app was upgraded thanks to feedback from faithful users. Updates include fixes to numerous, annoying bugs like unexpected app crashes, log-in issues and more.Most notable in the recent upgrade is a new comment feature, which displays comments in real time as comments arrive in your Droid notification bar. |
| WordPress upgrades free app for blogging on the go
(Appolicious)
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| PC World - More people browsed the Internet last month with a device running Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, than used Linux to do so. That's a first for Apple, according to NetMarketShare, a firm that produces metrics on the market share of browsers, operating systems and search engines. |
| Apple Browsing Share Tops Linux, Android Steals Share Everywhere
(PC World)
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| PC World - Some of the first fruits of a European Union-funded project led by IBM are making their way into the field of cloud computing, in the form of a virtual machine migration technology. |
| IBM Code Unfetters Virtual Workloads
(PC World)
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