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iPhones secretly stashing history of your location
Apple's iPhones are secretly storing data about your location, with a copy of the file being stashed on your Mac each time you sync with it. It's not clear why Apple captures the data, but the company apparently doesn't move it off your computers. Yet.


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Meet the fastest public-key algorithm few have even heard of
Here comes the fastest public-key algorithm that most people have never heard of: It's called NTRUEncrypt and this month was approved by the financial services standards body, the Accredited Standards Committee X9.

RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: The First Apps
We look at the initial crop of apps—good and bad—to appear in the BlackBerry App World.

On-premises BlackBerry servers won't connect to Microsoft's Office 365 at launch
The BlackBerry servers enterprises have installed in their data centers won't be able to connect to the Exchange Online portion of Microsoft's Office 365 cloud service, but RIM plans to have a cloud-based BlackBerry email service move into beta once Office 365 hits general availability, the vendors said this week.

Are IT departments too slow to patch Windows?
After reading that nearly half of U.S. PCs are infected by malware, Ed Bott at ZDNet called those statistics quoted by CNNMoney "bogus" and set out to get realistic numbers.

Skype plugs Android app privacy hole
Less than a week after confirming that a flaw in Skype for Android could leak sensitive user information, the Internet calling company Wednesday issued an urgent update to fix the problem.

Cisco going to NSS Labs to sort out alleged firewall issues
Cisco today is expected to confront more directly last week's allegations from NSS Labs that Cisco firewalls are vulnerable to a hacker exploit known as the 'TCP Split Handshake,' an attack that would fool the firewall into thinking the IP connection is a trusted one inside the network.

iPhone design ripped off Samsung? Not so much
Apple last week filed suit against Samsung for copying the "look and feel" of the iPhone with its line of Galaxy smartphones and tablets. As expected, Apple's lawsuit contains photos which show an uncanny resemblance between Apple's iPhone and a number of Samsung devices.

Linux patent protection network gets boost from Facebook, HP
Facebook, HP, Rackspace, Juniper, Fujitsu and dozens of other organizations have joined a group building a defensive patent portfolio to protect Linux-using members from potential lawsuits.

Toshiba's Tablet will arrive in June
Toshiba's first tablet PC will go on sale in June in Japan, the company said Wednesday. It will be available in other markets at about the same time.

AT&T racks up iPhone activations despite Verizon competition
It seems rumors of AT&T's demise as the top iPhone carrier were greatly exaggerated.

Web service guards SMBs against smartphone expense gotchas
Small and midsize companies can now manage their smartphone expenses with a Web portal and smartphone app from Anomalous Networks. The Web service tracks current phone usage, compares it to your carrier plan, and creates reports and alerts for managing phone accounts in real time.

DOJ limits Microsoft's purchase of Novell patents
The DOJ limits Microsoft's purchase of Novell patents.

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Microsoft released the official beta version of Office 365 today, but we've been playing with it for a while now. Here are 13 cool features of the cloud-based service that combines Office, SharePoint, Lync and Exchange.


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