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The past week saw - cooperation on two cloud projects, A/V extensions to HTML5 and Symbian Foundation membership for individuals. A new Blu-ray library, DrupalCON Europe registration opened and GENIVI choose MeeGo. An exchange of views on vulnerability disclosure and Microsoft caught on a flaw in the short cuts code. Adobe security hardening Reader, browser auto-completion shown to be a security hole and a new intrusion detection engine from Suricata

The past week saw - cooperation on two cloud projects, A/V extensions to HTML5 and Symbian Foundation membership for individuals. A new Blu-ray library, DrupalCON Europe registration opened and GENIVI choose MeeGo. An exchange of views on vulnerability disclosure and Microsoft caught on a flaw in the short cuts code. Adobe security hardening Reader, browser auto-completion shown to be a security hole and a new intrusion detection engine from Suricata

No one knows for certain what Microsoft plans on doing with its recently acquired ARM architectural license. However, there are a number of likely possibilities, including a new generation of processors designed for smartphones, tablets and even game consoles.

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Are you sick and tired of your passive and outdated digital dashboard? Have you ever wanted to customize or replace your traditional in-vehicle entertainment system?

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Time for our weekly installment of Unplugging, setting you up for a weekend of the best in music.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has officially disputed claims that he signed away a majority stake of his $25 billion dollar company to the owner of a wood-pellet fuel store in upstate New York. 

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BAE Systems has designed an advanced "stealth overcoat" capable of shielding military vehicles from radar and thermal imaging devices.

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Experts say that it is only a matter of time before there are no more of the 4 billion potential combinations of 32-bit IP addresses online.

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Electronic Arts - which once designed really, really cool hardcore games - is now gushing embarrassingly over Nintendo's "magical" 3DS handheld console.

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NASA has published an amazingly detailed map of Mars which was painstakingly rendered using nearly 21,000 images gathered by Odyssey's  Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS).

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An unidentified man dressed in a Darth Vader suit and gnarly camouflage pants has robbed a NYC bank.

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Yesterday we reported that Microsoft was pimping out free Windows 7 phones to its employees. Today we learned that Redmond expects hard-working MS devs to code Phone apps in their spare time.

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With version 5.2.14 as the final point release, the developers have discontinued their regular support of PHP 5.2. Users are advised to switch to 5.3. Version 5.3.3 was also released earlier today

Making good on its promise last week, Apple is now beginning to accept orders for free iPhone 4 bumper cases, but you have to submit them through an app on your iPhone 4.

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The Indian government has successfully created a prototype for a new multimedia tablet computer that could sell for $35 and may ultimately drive the price down to $10.

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Don't think this means Apple is going to fix the antennas with the white iPhone, or that Apple is racist, but it has yet again delayed the availability of the white iPhone.

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The critical vulnerability in the code for processing short-cuts (.lnk files) in all versions of Window remains unpatched, attracting a growing number of exploits. While Microsoft is still working on a fix, the first worms are targeting all Windows users

A flaw in the FAQ module of vBulletin's forum software leads to a search for the term "database" revealing MySQL access data

AT&T has posted its quarterly earnings report which showed that profit as well as subscription numbers grew, but as the iPhone gears to head to other carriers it may be one of the last times AT&T can post these kinds of statistics.

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AOL, once an immensely powerful online commodity that is now forced to scrape by to keep its name, has launched a brand new mobile app that, curiously, is initally only available to Android.

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