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From VentureBeat I don’t know anyone who still uses Yahoo Mail or Microsoft’s Hotmail for their webmail, but I realize that there are still plenty of you out there. In fact, according to data from comScore , there are far more Yahoo users and Hotmail users than there are Gmail [read more] Tweet This Post

From VentureBeat Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to buy out shares of hundreds of regular employees. Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.’s employees have now toiled at the company for more than two… [read more] Tweet This Post

From ChannelWeb Google users are being targeted in waves of malware attacks that redirect their searches to compromised Web sites that will download malware and steal information. Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe, said that experts have seen…  [read more] Tweet This Post

From Wired So says the Apple-centric Hardmac, citing “informations from one of our sources”. The scoop says that the next-gen iPhone will look exactly the same as the current one from the outside, and that both the iPod Touch and the iPod Nano will gain cameras. We’ll be kind and say that Hardmac has scored [...]

From ArsTechnica Internet Explorer dropped a significant 0.72 percentage points (from 66.82 percent to 66.10 percent) and Firefox jumped 0.43 percentage points (from 22.05 percent to 22.48 percent). Safari dropped a minor 0.02 percentage points (from 8.23 percent to 8.21 percent). Chrome once again moved further away from Opera: it gained 0.19 percentage points… [read [...]

From InformationWeek NASA’s Atlantis astronauts embarked on their second spacewalk Friday afternoon. The astronauts were on schedule to wrap up by day’s end Friday after replacing batteries in one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s bays. STS-125 mission specialists Mike Good and Mike Massimino began the nearly 7-hour spacewalk just before 9 a.m. Massimino and six other [...]

From AppleInsider Apple may be planning to add camera functionality to a couple of its next-generation iPod models, according to a new report, which also claims that upcoming iPhones will retain the handsets’ existing form factor. Citing tips passed on from one of its sources, Hardmac, the English-language version of France’sMacBidouille, says that when Apple refreshes [...]

From InformationWeek AT&T has officially blocked SlingPlayer on the iPhone from working over their 3G network. You can still use the player, but only if you have a WiFi connection. AT&T is showing that its network is having difficulty keeping up with the increasing bandwidth demands of smartphones… [read more] Tweet This Post