Stories by: Brennon Slattery

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    Apple iPhone 4 "Self-Combusts" on airplane 01/12/2011 06:10:00

    In what appears to be a one-off incident and not a general manufacturing flaw, a passenger's iPhone 4 "self-combusted" on an Australian flight last Friday, according to an airline press release [PDF].
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    Cool features your iPhone 4 gets after downloading Apple iOS 5 13/10/2011 06:35:00

    Apple's major overhaul of its iOS operating system arrives today, but amidst the excitement comes a major concern: Will iOS 5 function properly on older model iPhones? Or will there be an added circle of bricked-iPhone hell comparable to what happened in 2010 when the iPhone 3G took on iOS 4?
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    Amazon Kindle E-Book lending program: What it needs 13/09/2011 03:47:00

    Amazon's plans to create a subscription-based lending library of e-books on the Kindle is just, at this point, a rumor -- but, despite the novelty of the idea, it's already running into problems, namely from major book publishers.
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    Fox's 8-day content delay encourages piracy 24/08/2011 06:45:00

    Fox recently decided to stop releasing free online streams of its TV shows on Hulu the day after they air -- instead, Fox is delaying free streaming for eight days. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this choice by the network has resulted in an increase in over-100-percent increase in piracy.
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    Facebook lets expectant parents share the news 04/08/2011 01:31:00

    Facebook has added a feature that lets expectant parents add unborn children to the "Friends and Family" section of their profiles by selecting "Expected: Child" on the drop-down list. Typical of anything Facebook does, this feature -- implemented so that parents-to-be wouldn't break Facebook's rules by creating a profile for someone who is very underage -- has stirred controversy for the social network.
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    Mozilla's Boot to Gecko: A Mobile OS that could succeed 27/07/2011 01:45:00

    Mozilla, the makers of the Firefox browser, hopes to revolutionize the modern operating system with Boot to Gecko, a universal-platform OS primary aimed at mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets that could theoretically drive futuristic desktops as well.
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    Twitter won't fly as high if it flubs Bing deal 18/07/2011 02:59:00

    Twitter stands to lose a lot of clout -- and money -- if it flubs its social search deal with Microsoft's Bing like it did with Google.
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    5 possible reasons U.S. users are ditching Facebook 15/06/2011 08:25:00

    Have we finally grown tired of Facebook? According to Inside Facebook, more than five per cent of U.S. users abandoned Facebook in May -- that's about six million people who have stopped "liking" the world's largest social network. Six million people jumping ship sounds like a lot, but when you consider that Facebook is on track to hit 700 million users any day now, it's not such a big deal.
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    Microsoft's Xbox TV service may be near 06/06/2011 04:51:00

    Streaming TV may soon be coming to an Xbox near you.
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    Google's Schmidt admits to screwing up on Facebook 02/06/2011 03:05:00

    When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage at the AllThingsD conference, it was almost guaranteed that he would blurt out something controversial. But Schmidt didn't go over the top -- he did, however, admit that Google "screwed up" on its social strategy, and that it's his fault.
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    Beware of malware even as Mac Defender details emerge 30/05/2011 04:39:00

    Apple users are getting new details about one malware scare, but should be careful not to fall victim to another that may be lurking.
 
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