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Gawker Media Deals Its Way Out of iPhone Search Warrant

July 19, 2010
By Adrian
Gawker Media Deals Its Way Out of iPhone Search Warrant

A California court has granted the request of local prosecutors to withdraw a controversial search warrant against an editor for the tech site Gizmodo over its scoop about the iPhone 4G. Prosecutors reached an agreement with Thomas Nolan, the attorney representing Gizmodo and reporter Jason Chen, to return a computer and other seized items...
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Airline Ticket Fraud Ring Dismantled

July 14, 2010
By Adrian
Airline Ticket Fraud Ring Dismantled

Thirty eight suspects have been indicted for their role in a fraud operation that involved selling underpriced airline tickets acquired using stolen identities. The scam affected thousands of individuals...
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Open source media player embraces HD

June 30, 2010
By Adrian
Open source media player embraces HD

The VideoLAN project is shipping version 1.1 of its open source VLC media player, adding hardware acceleration, WebM support, and faster HD decoding, but deleting Shoutcast support. Meanwhile, several...
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FBI: Spies Hid Secret Messages on Public Websites

June 30, 2010
By Adrian
FBI: Spies Hid Secret Messages on Public Websites

Moscow communicated with a ring of alleged spies in America by encoding instructions in otherwise innocent-looking images on public websites. It’s a process called steganography. And it’s one of...
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Google Tweaks Rerouting In Fight For China Business

June 30, 2010
By Adrian
Google Tweaks Rerouting In Fight For China Business

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Google said it will stop automatically redirecting web searchers in China to an uncensored portal in Hong Kong as it hopes to convince Beijing to renew...
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Apple Announces End-Of-Life for iOS 2.x and Pushes for iOS 4 Adoption

June 30, 2010
By Adrian
Apple Announces End-Of-Life for iOS 2.x and Pushes for iOS 4 Adoption

Apple has announced via their iOS Developer newsfeed that iOS apps that were developed and compiled for iOS 2.x will no longer be supported. Developers are being advised to...
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Hackers vandalise 200 web sites, cripple 150

June 29, 2010
By Adrian
Hackers vandalise 200 web sites, cripple 150

The web sites of more than a whopping 200 Australian organisations were hijacked and vandalised in a spate of hacks last week. In the largest single attack, a hacker...
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Is Facebook’s Social Search Engine a Google Killer?

June 29, 2010
By Adrian
Is Facebook’s Social Search Engine a Google Killer?

Its new Open Graph protocol, an extension of its Facebook Connect, is a clear challenge to Google but may not prove useful for many Web searches When Facebook launched...
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iPhone 4 Sales Top 1.7 Million

June 29, 2010
By Adrian

CUPERTINO, California—June 28, 2010—Apple® today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone® 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June...
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In E-Mail, Steve Jobs Comments on iPhone 4 Minerals

June 29, 2010
By Adrian
In E-Mail, Steve Jobs Comments on iPhone 4 Minerals

Despite last week’s flurry of bad press surrounding the iPhone 4’s antenna, Steve Jobs is still in a chatty mood about his company’s newest handset. His latest personal e-mail...
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