Reuters – Global handset shipments grew nearly 5 percent in the second quarter, the first quarter- on-quarter growth in 9 months, marking a reversal of course for the struggling market, researchers at iSuppli said on Friday.
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Reuters – Apple Inc has released an iPhone software patch to fix a critical software bug uncovered by two independent researchers that make the devices susceptible to secret attacks by hackers.
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AP – Apple Inc. says it has fixed an iPhone vulnerability that lets hackers knock people offline and possibly take over the phones by sending them specially crafted text messages.
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AP – Student who admitted downloading, sharing music ordered to pay $675,000 to record labels.
PC World – Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser has just hit a new milestone, reaching its 1 billionth user download. The big event happened Thursday night, according to the company’s official download counter.
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AP – The race to build a “smarter” electrical grid could have a dark side. Security experts are starting to show the dangers of equipping homes and businesses with new meters that enable two-way communication with utilities.
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PC World – “Take that, Microsoft,” may not be what PlayStation 3 special projects manager Dr. Richard “EyeToy” Marks actually said when he took the stage back in early June at E3 2009. Still, you could practically hear it whispered in the rare downbeats as Marks divulged Sony’s own two-fisted take on precision motion-control.
AP – Kathleen Byrnes and Justin Choi, a married couple attending medical school at Tulane University, say $40 is just too much to fork over for a Nintendo Wii game they might not enjoy. They haven’t bought one since last fall, when they picked up “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.”
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PC World – At the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday, former Google VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill gave the opening keynote presentation, and it wasn’t a traditional security industry talk. The takeaway: Let users dictate enterprise security needs.
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AP – Yahoo Inc. invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realizing it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider hearkening back to a conclusion the company’s co-founders reached shortly after they started their Web directory in the mid-1990s.
Continue reading " Yahoo comes full circle with retreat from search (AP) "
