Apple's New Developer Terms: What's In, What's Out
Apple has changed the guidelines for its App Store now allowing some programs and services previously banned into the App Store. Here is what's out and in.
Apple - AppStore - Macintosh - Apple II - Companies
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"Here You Have" a Reason to Improve Malware Security
The "Here You Have" worm is taking the world by storm using rudimentary techniques that are a decade old, and illustrating the need for malware defense to evolve.
Malware - Security - worm - Animals - Agriculture
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Nokia Names Microsoft's Elop as New CEO
Nokia has named Stephen Elop, former president of Microsoft's business software group, to become its new CEO effective from later this month.
Microsoft - Stephen Elop - Nokia - Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo - Business
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Stephen Elop: Listening Will Be Task Number One at Nokia
Stephen Elop plans no immediate changes at Nokia, he said in a news conference Friday.
Nokia - Stephen Elop - Microsoft - Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo - Apple
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Ebay and Alibaba Eye China US Partnerships
Two of the world's biggest e-commerce marketplaces, eBay and it's Chinese counterpart Alibaba, will explore online partnerships.
EBay - Alibaba Group - China - Asia - Alibaba
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Elop Departure Leaves an Executive Vacancy at Microsoft
The departure of Stephen Elop to Nokia leaves Microsoft with a vacancy at the top of one of its largest and most important divisions
Microsoft - Nokia - Stephen Elop - Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo - Apple
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Nokia Names Microsoft's Elop as New CEO
Nokia has named Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business software group, to become its new CEO effective from later this month.
Microsoft - Stephen Elop - Nokia - Business - Nokia Names Microsoft
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'Here you Have' Virus Tries to Delete Your Security Software
A new worm spreading through e-mail looks like a harmless message, but instead downloads malware that searches for and tries to delete your security software, then spreads via your address book.
Malware - Security - Computer worm - Malicious Software - Address book
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Apple Offers App-Making Guidance, But No DIY Tool
Apple releases guidelines to make app development easier and to curtail "useless" or adult content, but there's still no DIY tool for building apps.
Apple - AppStore - IPhone - IOS - Apple II
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Best Buy Could Be Holiday Gift for Kindle
The Kindle's increasingly strong presence in physical stores should boost e-reader sales.
Best Buy - Business - Shopping - Retail Trade - Retailers
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Remains of the Day: Schooled by the IPad
Think the iPad's too cool for school? Think again. At least it isn't being viciously beat up and dissected by those iFixit bullies like its iPod cousins. And...
iFixit - IPod - Apple - IPad - IPod Touch
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EBay Claims Win in 2008 Craigslist Suit
A Delaware court has ruled in favor of eBay in its 2008 lawsuit against Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark, majority shareholders of Craigslist.
Craigslist - Craig Newmark - Jim Buckmaster - eBay - Shopping
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'Limitless' Whiteboarding Tool Enables Online Meetings
With Prezi Meeting comes a Web-based presentation service with features that place it in a category apart from PowerPoint and others.
Microsoft PowerPoint - Prezi - Presentation - Web Applications - Presentation Sharing
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Rosy WiMax Forecast Gives Way to LTE
ABI Research predicts 59 million WiMax users worldwide by 2015, about 15 percent less than an earlier forecast.
WiMAX - ABI Research - Telecommunications - Business - Equipment
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OmniFocus 1.8 Gets Better Organization, Sharing Features
The Omni Group has updated OmniFocus, its flexible task and project manager, adding a number of organization, sharing, and sync updates.
Omni Group - OmniFocus - IPhone - Apple - Project Management
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Prank Auto-Tune Friends With T-Pain Dialer
Smule's I Am T-Pain app gained immense popularity last year for letting iPhone users emulate rapper T-Pain's trademark auto-tune vocal styling. Rather than let...
IPhone - Smule - I Am T-Pain - T-Pain - Medicine
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Google Instant: Pros and Cons
Detractors say Google's new "instant" search technology is both a security risk and a distraction for the company.
Google - Google Instant - Search - Search Engines - Companies
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Apple's New App Store Rules Don't Change Anything
Apple may have released a set of guidelines for getting into its App Store, but the parameters for what'll get an app rejected remain as murky as ever.
Apple - AppStore - IOS - Macintosh - Apple II
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'Here You Have' E-mail Worm Spreads Quickly
Security vendors are warning of a mass-mailing worm that links to a malicious screensaver file.
Agriculture - Computer worm - Screensaver - Worms - Security
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Hotel Operator Warns of Data Breach
An operator of upscale hotels and resorts under such widely-known names as Marriott, Sheraton and Westin.
Travel and Tourism - Westin Hotels - Lodging - Asia - Hotels and Motels
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Android App Brings Google Voice to Home Screen
Revised app adds two new widgets to Android's home screen, thereby making it easier for users to access Google Voice's inbox and settings.
Google - GoogleVoice - Mobile phone - Android - Searching
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Vector Drawing App Features Powerful Tools, Minimalist Look
There's no shortage of vector drawing apps on the market today, but Bohemian Coding's Sketch stands out from the crowd by combining a minimalist, Mac-like...
Vector graphics - Apple - Graphics - Drawing - Visual Arts
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Apple’s iPhone App Policy Revisions: The Good and The Bad
Apple’s iPhone App Store acceptance process has been like dealing with the great and powerful Wizard of Oz. But today, Apple is opening the curtain, at least a little.
AppStore - Apple - IPhone - Smartphones - Handhelds
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Wall Street Beat: Tech Fails to Lead Markets
Good macroeconomic news boosted the markets this week but tech stocks are still down for the year.
Wall Street - Macroeconomics - Business - Investing - Stocks and Bonds
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Apple's App Store Guidelines Go Deeper Than Adobe
Ever since the App Store launched and the first app developer complained publicly about having his app rejected, Apple's received a lot of criticism about how...
Apple - AppStore - Adobe Systems - IPhone - Macintosh
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GetGlue Brings Social Networking for Entertainment to IPad
Social media network GetGlue has released a new app that brings its service, dedicated to the world of entertainment, to the iPad.
Glue - IPad - Social network service - Social network - IPhone
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How Six Memorable Tech Companies Got Their Names
Fifteen years ago, if I told a friend I had spent the day Googling myself or looking for names at Go Daddy, he would have assumed I'd gone off the deep end.
Go Daddy - Domain name - For Sale or Auction - Website - Generic top-level domain
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Business Groups Question Net Neutrality Rules
Three business trade groups question the need for new net neutrality rules.
Network neutrality - Programming - Component Frameworks - NET - Business
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BaseApp Watches Basecamp From Your Menu Bar
If you find that e-mail notifications aren’t the best way to stay on top of activity from Basecamp, 37signals’s popular project management and collaboration...
Basecamp - Project management - 37signals - Project and Program Management - Management
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It Pays to Break the Rules When You're Mark Hurd
Hurd scored $34 million for his bad behavior at HP; now he's nabbed a high-profile gig at Oracle. What's the message here?
Mark Hurd - Hewlett-Packard - Oracle Corporation - Oracle - Larry Ellison
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T-Mobile G2 Plus HSPA+ Network Could Be a Fast Combo
The new phone is the first to take advantage of the fast speeds delivered by T-Mobile's 3.5G network--now in 55 cities.
T-Mobile - Evolved HSPA - Business and Economy - High-Speed Downlink Packet Access - Telecommunications
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Another SMS Trojan Appears on Android Phones
Android users may be becoming a viable target for mobile malware: Kaspersky Labs has found a new SMS trojan affecting Google's platform.
Kaspersky Lab - Google - SMS - Android - Mobile Computing
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Apple Flinches on Flash, Eases Dev Tool Restrictions
Relaxed restrictions on cross-platform compilers may allow Flash apps on iPhone.
IPhone - Apple - Flash - App Store - Handhelds
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iFixit Tears Down the iPod Touch: Here's What It Found
The new iPod Touch is impressing reviewers with its slim design and front and rear cameras. So what did the folks at iFixit think about the inside?
iFixit - iPod Touch - IPod - Apple - IPhone
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New IPods: The Unanswered Questions
After we posted our reviews of the new iPod shuffle, iPod nano, and iPod touch, we got questions from readers about things we didn't specifically cover in those...
IPod Nano - IPod - IPod Shuffle - IPod Touch - Apple
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Online Privacy Bills Would Hurt E-commerce, Trade Group Says
E-commerce trade group NetChoice names recent online privacy proposals in the U.S. Congress as the worst current legislative proposals for the Internet.
Electronic commerce - Privacy - Security - United States Congress - Protocols
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Intel to Spotlight Future Laptop, Desktop Chips at Show
Intel at IDF will share further details on the Sandy Bridge chip design, which will be used in its next-generation chips.
Intel Corporation - Intel Sandy Bridge - Intel Developer Forum - Hardware - Sandy Bridge
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Size Does Matter: LaCie Shrinks 2TB USB 3.0 Drives to Fit in your Pocket
Not to be outdone by Iomega, LaCie is making tiny portable USB 3.0 drives with up to 2TB of storage. How do they stack up against the competition?
Iomega - Universal Serial Bus - LaCie - hard drive - Hard disk drive
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AT&T Boasts of Billions Spent on Network Improvements
A letter sent to AT&T customers and a news release about wireless network improvements are stoking speculation that the carrier's exclusive iPhone deal is coming to a close.
AT&T - iPhone - Smartphone - Wireless network - iPhone 3G
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Microsoft Apologizes for Service Outages
Microsoft apologized for three outages that affected users of its hosted business software services.
Microsoft - Business - Companies - Microsoft Corporation - Groupware
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T-Mobile Unveils Its G2, the Successor to First Android Phone
T-Mobile today unveiled the G2 smartphone made by HTC. It is the successor to the first Android phone, the G1.
Android - T-Mobile - HTC Corporation - Handhelds - HTC
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Simple Steps Small Businesses Should Take for Smart IT Investments
Spending on IT is expected to ramp up in the second half of the year. Here are tips to consider before leaping to make new purchases.
Business - Small Business - Business and Economy - mirror-edge - Technology
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Aruba Networks Brings 'Network Virtualization' to Enterprise
Executives from Aruba Networks aim to address the wireless network needs of businesses at a lower cost through virtualization.
Aruba Networks - Caribbean - Aruba - Wireless network - Wireless
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Fact or Fiction? Top 8 Linux Myths Debunked
Think Linux is just for experts, or that it's less secure than Windows or Mac OS? It's time to dispel such false perceptions once and for all.
Mac OS - Linux - Operating system - Windows - Mac OS X
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RIM's DataViz Purchase Could Impact IOS Support
Research In Motion has made a move to shore up its position in the mobile productivity market by snapping up software maker DataViz. But the mobile phone maker's...
DataViz - Research In Motion - Mobile phone - BlackBerry - IPhone
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Parallels Desktop 6 Provides Best of Both Worlds
Who says you have to choose between Windows 7 and Mac OS X? Parallels Desktop 6 lets you run Windows virtually from within Mac OS X and straddle the line between the two platforms.
Mac OS X - Windows 7 - Microsoft Windows - Operating system - Parallels Desktop for Mac
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Smile Releases PDFpen, PDFpenPro 5.0
Editing and searching PDFs on the Mac got a little easier on Thursday with Smile's release of a major upgrade to PDFpen.
Portable Document Format - Apple - Macintosh - Business - Smile
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Kindle Coming to Best Buy
Best Buy promises new displays, allowing shoppers to compare e-readers side-by-side, just in time for the holiday shopping season.
bestbuy - Amazon Kindle - Sony - Barnes & Noble - Retailing
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Parallels Desktop 6 Coming to Mac
On Thursday, Parallels announced the latest version of its virtualization software, Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac. The software allows Mac users to run Windows...
Microsoft Windows - Parallels Desktop for Mac - Apple - Macintosh - Operating system
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Samsung Fascinate: Why Verizon? Why?
Verizon has made some disappointing choices with its new Android phone, taking a perfectly fine device and tainting it with profit-driven modifications.
Android - Verizon Communications - Smartphone - Samsung Group - Verizon
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