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Today's Technology News: Spears, DeGeneres Twitpic accounts hacked Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale - privately 'Hacktivists' take up Iran fight as streets quiet Former law student gets life in PlayStation murder Companies appeal to China to drop Web filter plan Guatemalan fears a tweet will make him a jailbird China filter software faces tough sell in digital bazaar A Day in the Life of 3G Vodafone mulls offer for T-Mobile UK: FT Filipino inmates in `Thriller' video stage tribute Rumor: PlayStation 3 Update Coming Pre-Holidays, 'Huge Overhaul' PhoneSuit Turns iPhone, iPod Touch into Portable Projector Canadian software helps Iranian dissidents connect NetBeans IDE enhanced for teams, scripting US, Russia in dispute over computer attacks: report Firefox 3.5 eyed for Tuesday release Sony eyes cellphone/game gear hybrid - Nikkei Spears, DeGeneres Twitpic accounts hacked Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:17 pm PDT AP - Hackers have broadcast bogus information about celebrities including Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres after breaking into their Twitpic accounts. Full Story Top Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale - privately Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:47 am PDT AP - Scott Painter makes his living betting on startup companies, having played a role in launching 29 of them over the years. But with the bad economy choking initial public offerings and acquisitions, Painter is now backing an idea that makes it easier for insiders like him to sell shares in their companies even before they go public. Full Story Top 'Hacktivists' take up Iran fight as streets quiet Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:55 pm PDT AP - EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media. Full Story Top Former law student gets life in PlayStation murder Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:08 am PDT AP - A former criminal law student has been sentenced to life in a California prison for killing one man and wounding two others in a dispute over a Sony PlayStation console. Full Story Top Companies appeal to China to drop Web filter plan Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:08 am PDT AP - Global business groups have made an unusual direct appeal to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to scrap an order for PC makers to supply controversial Internet filtering software, citing security and privacy concerns. Full Story Top Guatemalan fears a tweet will make him a jailbird Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:50 am PDT AP - Jean Anleu was so fed up with corruption in his country that he decided to vent on the Internet, sending a 96-character message on the social-networking site Twitter. Full Story Top China filter software faces tough sell in digital bazaar Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:48 pm PDT Reuters - China's latest Internet controls have been assailed by rights advocates and Washington, and yet the real challenge to its "Green Dam" plan may be the nation's own computer market, an anarchic digital bazaar. Full Story Top A Day in the Life of 3G Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:00 pm PDT PC World - Only after the thrill of picking out your new smart phone is over--after you’ve marveled at all the stylish new gadgetry and features, signed a service contract and finally laid your money down--do you finally get a feel for the speed and reliability of the wireless service that connects your new phone. Full Story Top Vodafone mulls offer for T-Mobile UK: FT Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:43 pm PDT AFP - Britain's Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile phone company by revenue, is exploring a bid to buy T-Mobile UK, the Financial Times reported on Monday. Full Story Top Filipino inmates in `Thriller' video stage tribute Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:40 am PDT AP - The Filipino inmates who shot to global fame with a YouTube video of their "Thriller" dance swayed and stomped again Saturday in a behind-bars tribute to their idol, Michael Jackson. Full Story Top Rumor: PlayStation 3 Update Coming Pre-Holidays, 'Huge Overhaul' Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:11 am PDT PC World - An undisclosed source has apparently told VG247 that Sony's PlayStation 3 is in for a radical interface overhaul in an upcoming pre-holiday firmware update. PS3 Firmware 3.0 (v2.8 was just released--see pic above) will be "a completely new system," writes the site, citing its source as calling the update "a huge overhaul," comparable to Microsoft's New Xbox Experience "in some respects." Full Story Top PhoneSuit Turns iPhone, iPod Touch into Portable Projector Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:19 pm PDT PC World - We've heard reports of so-called pico projectors coming as a direct complement for mobile phones for more than a year now, first in demos at CES 2008, and later in the form of the Optoma Pico Project Projector. Full Story Top Canadian software helps Iranian dissidents connect Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:54 pm PDT AFP - Software developed by a Canadian lab to circumvent online censorship has been downloaded by more than 18,000 Iranians in the last 10 days, says its developer Rafal Rohozinski. Full Story Top NetBeans IDE enhanced for teams, scripting Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:00 pm PDT InfoWorld - etBeans, the open source IDE championed by Sun Microsystems, is being fitted with additional capabilities this week for development teams and scripting languages. Full Story Top US, Russia in dispute over computer attacks: report Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:05 pm PDT AFP - Less than two weeks before President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow, the United States and Russia cannot agree how to counter the growing threat of cyberwar attacks that could wreak havoc on computer systems and the Internet, according to The New York Times. Full Story Top Firefox 3.5 eyed for Tuesday release Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:36 pm PDT InfoWorld - Mozilla is expected to release its Firefox 3.5 browser on Tuesday morning, a company representative said on Friday afternoon. Full Story Top Sony eyes cellphone/game gear hybrid - Nikkei Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:59 pm PDT Reuters - Sony Corp is considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple Inc's highly popular iPod and iPhone, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday. Full Story Top

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