Google acquires iPhone search application ReMail

From InfoWorld: Google on Wednesday acquired ReMail, a popular iPhone application that provides "lightning fast" full-text search of your Gmail and IMAP email accounts.

Terms of the deal were not released. ReMail may not have been a household name, but the app received critical...

Windows Phone Classic: WinMo 6.5's New Lease on Life

From PC World: Despite the excitement Windows Phones 7 Series is generating, Microsoft's not ready to let go of Windows Mobile 6.5.

An unnamed Microsoft representative told iStartedSomething that the old mobile operating system will live on as Windows Phone Classic, its phones...

Last words? Google Books to get final hearing

From CNET News.com: A federal judge will start writing the ending to the Google Books saga on Thursday, finally paving the way for a resolution of the five-year dispute.

Representatives from Google, groups representing authors and publishers, privacy advocates, and competitors will...

BlackBerry users get Amazon Kindle app

From CNET News.com: Continuing its effort to expand the e-book business beyond its own hardware, Amazon.com on Thursday released a Kindle application for BlackBerry phones.

Amazon got its start as an online book seller, expanded to electronics and other retail categories, then...

Report: Windows Phone OS 7.0 Development Details Leak

From DailyTech: Windows Phone 7 Series hopes to continue Microsoft's recent success that began with Windows 7 for PCs. The new mobile OS, set to air this holiday season, scraps past efforts entirely. In its place is a colorful operating system quite unlike anything else on the...

Microsoft to Charge for Windows Phone 7

From Tom's Hardware: The Web is buzzing about Microsoft's new mobile OS, Windows Phone 7. With a sexy and sleek UI, it seems Microsoft has finally gotten it right and is now able to compete with the bigger players like Apple and Google (Android). However, design aside, it would seem...

OpenOffice 3.2 Fixes Several Vulnerabilities

From PC World: The latest version of OpenOffice fixes several vulnerabilities that could cause a computer to become compromised by a remote attacker.

OpenOffice.org has issued version 3.2, which adds a lengthy list of new features and improves the suite's overall performance while...

Linux Phone Group LiMo Adds Adobe as Latest Partner

From DailyTech: The LiMo Foundation has added Adobe as its latest global partner, with Adobe applauding the group's open standards that will allow Adobe to "further its goals of open standards" in 2010.

"There has been a step change for Linux in mobile," said Morgan Gillis, head of...

Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia

From CNET News.com: Google has made a $2 million donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind the widely used Wikipedia reference site.

Jimmy Wales, a member of the board who helped create Wikipedia, announced the donation in a tweet on Tuesday. He said a formal...

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