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Twitter used to control botnets
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Jose Nazario, a security researcher from Arbor Networks has discovered a crimeware botnet using Twitter to distribute commands.
Exploding iPhone injures teenager
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In Marseille, France a teenager suffered an eye injury when his girlfriend’s iPhone exploded. The news comes a few weeks after an iPod touch exploded here in England.
Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word by Judge
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A court in Texas has ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, after coming to the conclusion that the extremely popular program infringes a patent owned by a company in Canada.
GM and eBay to launch new-car sales site today
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In hope to help the company stay afloat, General Motors will be moving the sale of some vehicles online, an industry first.
California will be the first state to trial the deployment where 225 of California’s GM dealers will offer Buick, Chevrolet, GMC and Pontiac cars on a co-branded page of eBay Motors.
Cat blamed for kiddie porn
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A man from Florida who has been accused of downloading child pornography is blaming his pet cat. Detectives found more than 1,000 images on his computer which accounts for 10 possessions of child pornography.
Web attack blogger blames Russia
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A blogger who was targeted in a co-ordinated attack against websites such as Facebook and Twitter has told the BBC he blames Russia for the assault.
Microsoft works on Direct X11
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Software giant Microsoft is trying to improve the visuals in Windows 7 by working with hardware makers on Direct X11.
Apple gags 11 year old over exploding iPod
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The activities of Apple’s legal team hit a new low after threatening an 11 year old girl after one of its iPods exploded.
Call for debate on killer robots
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An international debate is needed on the use of autonomous military robots, a leading academic has said.
Facebook now fourth largest website
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In June, Facebook had grown by a massive 24 million users. It now has around 250 million active users and recieves 340 million global unique visitors.
