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Over the weekend I updated my
iPod touch to the 2.0 software, and I consider that $10 well-spent. Now I can access all the same great apps as iPhone 3G owners. Thankfully, many of them are free; I’ve rounded up five I really like. (Note that all links require iTunes.)
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Well, that didn’t take long. As soon as people started to get excited about open-source OpenClip, and its ability to bring copy-and-paste functionality to the
iPhone, Apple found a way to shut it down with its 2.1 firmware.
Of course, OpenClip is open source, and perhaps enterprising developers will find a way around the 2.1 firmware. Or [...]

At 8:00 AM UK time, the 3G
iPhone went on “pre-sale.” Within an hour, the site was down because it couldn’t handle the traffic. By the afternoon, the pre-order allotment was gone.
At a lower price and improved specifications, Apple may well hit the ball out of the park with this release. See you in line.
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I was reading through the Wall Street Journal and stumbled across this amazing piece of news: Palm still exists! As proof, the company has released a new Treo.
Remember the Treo?
It used to be the “it” device, the one you just had to have. Now? Well, now it’s the device that you get if you’ve been [...]

LAS VEGAS–The security issues we face today in cyberspace are the same ones the country faced during the American Civil War when Abe Lincoln was relying on telegraph transmissions to help keep the country united, a top U.S. cybersecurity official said in a keynote speech at the Black Hat security conference here Thursday.

Abe Lincoln, "the [...]

Google on Monday unveiled a new Web-based tool, Map Maker, that lets people add roads, lakes, businesses, and other features to unmapped regions of Google Maps.

Google Map Maker lets people add details to maps in some countries.
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With the tool, people can using tracing tools to build maps in Cyprus, Iceland, Pakistan, and Vietnam, according [...]

Shares of software-as-a-service company Salesforce.com fell Thursday in morning trading after the company announced cautious guidance for the upcoming third quarter.
Shares were trading at $55.80 by midday, down from Wednesday’s close of $65.30.
Looking ahead, the company said it expects revenue in the third quarter to be between $273 million and $274 million, slightly below [...]

This week on the Crave vodcast, Brian Tong and Jasmine France show off some vibrating earbuds, a bag made for both beer and music, and the comeback of the Polaroid.

Also, hide the pets, because we might just turn Fluffy into a new
iPod case.

When President Bush signed the bill creating the Department of Homeland Security in 2002, he said, “the department will be charged with encouraging research on new technologies that can detect these threats in time to prevent an attack.” What have we got to show for that? CNET News’ Declan McCullagh explains why Homeland Security is [...]

Mike Ricciuti of CNET says Windows XP is “doomed” and that “most of us will likely be using Vista sometime in the near future” (see Microsoft: All roads lead to Vista). In contrast, Ina Fried of CNET writes that Windows XP may get another reprieve, the title referring to the fact that major computer manufacturers [...]