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So what is new in iPhone 3.0 other than cut and paste?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-03-17 15:50:41
Apple announces 100 new features to be added to the iPhone with the forthcoming iPhone 3.0 update, so what's looking good for end users and developers alike? iTWire reveals all...


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Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 out in the wild
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2009-03-12 05:15:44
Microsoft is doing a real bad job of keeping the lid on Windows 7 builds, as the availability of the latest RC1 Build 7057 software via BitTorrent demonstrates.


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Uh oh, Google goes all Phorm on your ass
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Search engines

2009-03-11 10:00:38
The whole concept of behaviour-based targeting of online advertising is guaranteed to kick up a privacy stink wherever it appears. When that place is Google, though, the stink could quickly become something of a shit-storm.


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Small talking iPod shuffle finds a voice
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: Peripherals

2009-03-11 09:03:56
As if an iPod does not do enough already, someone at Apple obviously thought it was missing the ability to talk. But not any more.


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Is YouTube doing an iTunes by blocking music videos in royalty row?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-03-10 06:11:38

Brits are discovering that decent music content on YouTube is disappearing fast after the online video giant decided to block all premium music videos in a row over a hike in royalty payments to musicians, songwriters, composers and publishers. So is Google copying Apple with the hard man tactics and more to the point will it work?


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Does watching pirated movies make you a terrorist?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Regulatory

2009-03-09 00:09:09
You might consider movie piracy a victimless crime, but some folk are now directly linking pirates to terrorists.


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Are Twitter users becoming porn stars?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-03-06 21:51:02
Twitter is often accused of being boring, but this weekend many users were discovering their online friends had apparently started a new career as online porn stars.


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Stupid clucking question: which came first the chicken or the dinosaur?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science

Category: Biology

2009-03-06 09:21:38
You might think that the world's leading paleontologists had better things to do than reverse engineer a chicken, but you would be wrong.


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Would you let a convicted botnet builder keep his job?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-03-06 07:41:16
As a security consultant gets four years in prison for helping to build a botnet which infected a quarter million computers, his IT company boss says he will give him a job when he is released.


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Boffins take 70 years to name new species the No Parking Tree
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science

Category: Biology

2009-03-06 06:34:04
Who gets to give trees their names, and why would anyone call a new species the No Parking tree?


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Is Spotify being crucified on a cross of media misunderstanding?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-03-05 06:14:50
Users of popular online music service Spotify are understandably worried by the news of a security breach that, according to many reports, has exposed password and sensitive information. But how accurate are those reports?


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Gates Hates 'Pods
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2009-03-04 09:04:47
File under not so strange and apparently true: Bill Gates has banned the iPod, and the iPhone for that matter, from his home. As well as from his family.


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Should a Facebook under fire adopt the Apple approach to security?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-03-02 16:30:55
With malicious hackers targeting Facebook a total of five times in seven days, has the time come for the social network to take a leaf out of the Apple book?


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More sex please, I'm British
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-02-27 06:30:17
Would you rather work hard for promotion or go for a quicker, if slightly sweatier, route to success? 


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Warning: Excel Zero Day Vulnerability
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-25 06:37:58
Microsoft has issued a security advisory regarding a zero day vulnerability which could allow remote code execution upon the opening of an Excel file.


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Is ISP blocking the answer to child porn?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Regulatory

2009-02-23 17:34:22
Some 95 percent of all UK ISPs filter known child abuse sites, yet that leaves a huge number still able to access some horrific images.


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Searching for the world's funniest fart
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science

Category: Biology

2009-02-21 17:06:59
Professor Trevor Cox once conducted research into the world's most sickening sounds, now he has turned his academic focus towards farting noises.


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Windows Mobile 6.5 is no iPhone killer
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-21 15:58:54
The media has made much of a Microsoft iPhone killer prototype handset being stolen during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. iTWire ponders if it all might just be a publicity stunt for the failing Windows Mobile OS?


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Dell: All Your Netbooks Are Not Belong To Psion
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-21 08:07:07
Dell desperately wants a bigger share of the netbook market, but it also wants to be able to call them netbooks and is taking the trademark fight to Psion.


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Could Sexy View SMS worm build the first mobile botnet?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-20 04:05:15
Watch out mobile phone users, a new worm is in the wild and spreading via text message.  Worryingly, security experts warn it could be building the world's first mobile botnet.


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