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Tweet Apple fix to iPhone security flaw Mobile handsets including iPhones and those using Windows Mobile or Google’s Android operating system are vulnerable to text-based attacks, say experts. Software code that arrives in a text message can hijack the phones, said Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. The [...]

Tweet Review: Microsoft’s Bing has a smart presentation, but still far from Google in key ways Is Microsoft’s Bing really a better search engine? Since it debuted last month, it has earned praise for the smart way it presents results and how it lets users preview Web sites without clicking through to them. Yet a [...]

Tweet Nokia To Get Into Netbooks – Android As OS For Netbooks? Earlier Brian Caulfield argues on Forbes that Nokia could kill the netbook, pointing at the company’s flagship device N97, though the convergence of mobile computing and phone is finally coming into existence, it doesn’t seem quite like N97 will kill netbook business for [...]

Tweet Compute: A closer look at Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 In case you had not noticed, Microsoft unleashed Internet Explorer 8 onto the cyber world this month, which brought with it some good news and bad. Version 8, which has been awaited for more than a year, came with little fanfare by Microsoft standards. The [...]

Tweet New Wacom Intuos Official, Feels Like Pen and Paper The mysterious Wacom Intuos 4, the graphics tablet which shipped before even turning up on Wacom’s site, is finally, officially, official. What’s more, Wacom worked closely with the folks at Adobe to make sure the new tablet plays nice with Photoshop. Actually, really really nice [...]