Cheap Android smartphones coming soon

From InfoWorld: New low-cost smartphones running Google's Android software have been launched in Taiwan recently and the good news is they should start showing up just about everywhere soon.

A new group of companies, electronics contract manufacturers, are starting to make high-end...

Skype Pulls Windows Mobile Apps; No Word of Return

From PC World: Skype's VoIP apps for the Windows Mobile operating system, Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Phones, are no longer available for download, the company announced, claiming the apps didn't offer a good enough experience.

The popular Internet calling service has seen...

EU cautions Google over Street View photos

From CNET News.com: In a letter sent to the search giant this week, the European Union's privacy watchdog told Google that it should warn towns and cities before it snaps photos for its online Street View maps. The EU also told the company that it should cut the time it keeps the...

JMicron Lives; Corsair Announces New Mainstream SSDs

From DailyTech: Solid state drives (SSDs) have come a long way in the past year. Long gone are the early days when SSDs like OCZ's Core Series were plagued with stuttering problems in every day usage scenarios courtesy of the JMicron JMF602 controller. Now we have SSD controllers...

Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Update Now Live

From Tom's Hardware: Earlier this month, we detailed that Microsoft was prepping a Windows 7 Update that would improve Windows Activation Technologies to detect more than 70 known and potentially dangerous activation exploits.

Those paying attention to their Windows Update will see...

IBM: Software vulnerabilities fell in 2009, but other risks abound

From InfoWorld: The number of software vulnerabilities fell overall in 2009, but the number of bugs in document readers and multimedia applications increased by 50 percent, according to IBM's annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report.

IBM's X-Force research and development team studies...

No Explicit Category for iPhone Apps After All?

From PC World: Looks like there won't be any 'Explicit' category for apps in Apple's App Store after all, as the Cupertino company reportedly removed the option from the App Store submission software.

"It's not going to happen anytime soon," an Apple representative said, according...

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