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Google snips Facebook's Gmail line
5 November 2010, 1:56 pm

'You want our data? We get yours' Google has fired the latest salvo in its ongoing war with Facebook over who gets to know who your friends are, updating its terms of service so that Facebook can't access Gmail's Contacts API unless Zuckerberg and company offer a similar API. Mountain View has already started to cut Facebook's access to the Google API, according to a source familiar with the matter.…

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iTunes App Store sprouts 'Hall of Fame'
5 November 2010, 12:16 pm

Criteria for inclusion? Unknown Apple has added a new section to its iOS-centric iTunes App Store: a Hall of Fame.…

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Two 21-year-old ZBot mule suspects cuffed in Wisconsin
5 November 2010, 11:50 am

Pair were both on the FBI list US authorities have captured a further two ZeuS-malware money mule suspects.…

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Clearwire cuts 15 per cent of staff
5 November 2010, 11:41 am

Praying for profits Clearwire is laying off staff as it tries to eke out its funds until it starts making money.…

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Shuttle Discovery further delayed by leaky boil-off umbilical
5 November 2010, 11:21 am

Veteran ship wreathed in explosive gas NASA's several-times-delayed bid to launch space shuttle Discovery on its final planned mission - a trip delivering supplies and parts to the International Space Station - has been scrubbed again following a "significant" leak in a hydrogen boil-off safety flare stack pipe.…

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US Army's new $0.5bn British airship will fly 'mid-next summer'
5 November 2010, 11:05 am

Still puny vs '30s zeppelins - Reg units analysis The US Army's bold scheme to build a mighty optionally-crewed airship with the aid of British designers is going well, according to the ship's builders.…

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Dell dumps RIM, saves fortune
5 November 2010, 10:14 am

Staff clear pockets for porky Venue Pro sets Dell reckons it will cut costs by a quarter when staff dump 25,000 BlackBerrys for its own Windows Phone 7 handsets, and is encouraging others to do the same.…

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Scarlett Johansson unleashes voracious sexuality in steamy alien film
5 November 2010, 9:42 am

Hollywood star gets Under the Skin Delightful news reaches us that the svelte and rather lovely Scarlett Johansson will be starring as a “ruthless alien seductress” in an upcoming sci-fi film entitled Under the Skin.…

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'Hippy' energy kingpin's electric Noddy-car in epic FAIL
5 November 2010, 9:04 am

Dale Vince bummed out in Clarkson bitchslap mishap An electric concept car commissioned by soi-disant "hippie" energy-trading biz lord Dale Vince specifically to “blow the socks off Jeremy Clarkson and smash the stereotype of electric cars” has unfortunately done neither, as on its first public outing the "Nemesis" abruptly ground to a halt in busy traffic and had to be pushed.…

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Pentax X90 superzoom bridge camera
5 November 2010, 9:00 am

Telescopic sights Review  If you're shopping around for a compact bridge camera, then the Pentax X90 shouldn’t be overlooked. The company entered the superzoom bridge camera market comparatively late with the X70, and the X90 revamp retains the design and a similar range of features. These include the 12.1Mp CCD sensor with sensor-shift image stabilisation, and a 2.7in LCD screen with a 230,000 dots resolution.…

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$8.9m poker prize up for grabs - humans only please
5 November 2010, 8:47 am

Why can't a bot play at this level? The biggest deal in the poker calendar kicks off tomorrow, but only humans will be allowed to sit in on the final table of the World Series of Poker's main event.…

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ZeuS miscreants offer up honeypot
5 November 2010, 8:31 am

Cybercrooks turn the table on researchers with fake interface Cybercrooks are attempting to turn the tables on security researchers by setting up fake interfaces on their botnets in a bid to confuse and confound analysis.…

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Windows 7 'I'm a PC' man quits Microsoft
5 November 2010, 8:23 am

'I'm a PC and I'm pissing off' Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” bloke is reportedly leaving the software maker.…

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WD and Xyratex discuss future tech roadmap for disk drives
5 November 2010, 8:18 am

Heat-assisted magnetic recording product could arrive by 2014 It seems the disk drive industry has decided which future technology to use and in which order, judging by recent Western Digital and Xyratex discussions with investment analysts.…

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Adobe Flash foils MacBook Air battery life
5 November 2010, 8:00 am

Uninstall Flash, get two more hours' runtime Why isn't Apple integrating Adobe's Flash plug-in into the version of Mac OS X pre-loaded on the new MacBook Airs? Maybe not for the resulting battery life boost, but it's as good a reason as any.…

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