LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Two security experts said on Friday they released a tool for attacking smartphones that use Google Inc’s Android operating system to persuade manufacturers to fix a bug that lets hackers read a victim’s email and text messages.
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Software released for attacking Android phones
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Microsoft talks up tablets, shows off new phones
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SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp set out its ambitions to dominate the consumer electronics market on Thursday with Windows-powered tablet computers and smartphones designed to beat back advances by Apple Inc and Google Inc.
Google says China search block may be tech glitch
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc said its earlier report that Internet search services in China were being fully blocked could have been the result of a technical glitch that overstated the problem.
Bitter smartphone war seen pinching vendor margins
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HELSINKI (Reuters) – An increasingly heated battle in the global smartphone market is set to weigh on handset vendors’ profit margins for the rest of the year, analysts said on Friday.
Facebook may postpone IPO to 2012: report
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(Reuters) – Social networking website Facebook Inc may postpone its initial public offering until 2012, Bloomberg said, citing three people familiar with the matter.
India raises security concerns over BlackBerry services
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has raised security concerns with Research In Motion over the Canadian company’s popular BlackBerry services, but is not planning a ban in the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market.
Low-tech Shatner eyes Twitter, says what the "$#*!"
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – William Shatner confesses he has problems with the digital age. At 79 years old, he doesn’t use Twitter and can’t remember computer passwords.
Russia clamps down on Internet, Google frowns
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A court in Russia’s far east has ordered an Internet provider to block five sites which it said disseminated extreme views, prompting U.S. Internet giant Google to say on Thursday the move restricted access to information.
U.S. sues Oracle, alleges software contract fraud
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department said on Thursday it sued Oracle Corp, alleging it defrauded the federal government on a software contract in effect from 1998 to 2006 that involved hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.