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Today's Technology News: Google plugs free PC-to-phone calling into e-mail Apple's 99-cent TV show idea is no game changer Review: Dell Streak is awkward phone, so-so tablet Apple 'special event' slated for Sept. 1; new iPod Touch, Apple TV? Virgin Mobile tees up $40/month unlimited broadband plan Remains of the Day: HTC strikes back Pentagon computers attacked with flash drive India holds crucial meeting on BlackBerry security Vampire Hunters: Devices Reduce Energy Waste Indiana man charged in Pa. Facebook stalking case Apple sets music event for Sept. 1 Web Faceoff: New Digg vs. Old Digg Bump Android app is the new business card Cracks in computer defenses abound: IBM Red Hat Offers Its Cloud APIs as Industry Standard Gmail Glitch Resends Messages Multiple Times Firefox 4 Browser Inches Ahead with Ease of Use PARTING SHOTS: Cali mosque vandalized, Putin shoots a whale Google plugs free PC-to-phone calling into e-mail Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:12 pm PDT AP - Google Inc. is adding a free e-mail feature that may persuade more people to cut the cords on their landline phones. Full Story Top Apple's 99-cent TV show idea is no game changer Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:32 pm PDT AP - Apple Inc.'s iTunes store may have revolutionized the music business, but its recent push to let people rent TV shows for 99 cents won't amount to a game changer for how people watch TV. Full Story Top Review: Dell Streak is awkward phone, so-so tablet Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:37 pm PDT AP - Lately I've been feeling very self-conscious when talking on the phone in public, and it's not because I'm worried about strangers listening in on my private conversations. Full Story Top Apple 'special event' slated for Sept. 1; new iPod Touch, Apple TV? Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:02 pm PDT Ben Patterson - Get ready to lay your eyes on Apple’s latest and greatest — including, perhaps, a new iPod Touch and a $99 Apple TV — next week, with Apple sending out guitar-decorated invites (hint, hint) for a September 1 "special event." Full Story Top Virgin Mobile tees up $40/month unlimited broadband plan Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:41 pm PDT Ben Patterson - Forty bucks a month for unlimited 3G data that you can share over Wi-Fi via the MiFi wireless hotspot? Where do I sign up — and how long before other carriers follow suit? Full Story Top Remains of the Day: HTC strikes back Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:30 pm PDT Macworld.com - You just can’t keep a good army of Terminators down. Apple may have had an ulterior motive in the deal it struck with the Liquidmetal folks; HTC has struck back at Apple’s patent infringement suits; and the EFF thinks Steve Jobs is a cackling, diabolical mastermind. The bad kind. If you can stomach that, you can handle the remainders for Wednesday, August 25, 2010. Full Story Top Pentagon computers attacked with flash drive Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:39 pm PDT AP - A foreign spy agency pulled off the most serious breach of Pentagon computer networks ever by inserting a flash drive into a U.S. military laptop, a top defense official said Wednesday. Full Story Top India holds crucial meeting on BlackBerry security Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:47 pm PDT Reuters - The fate of BlackBerry's encrypted email and messaging services in India will be decided in last-ditch talks starting on Thursday between the smart phone's maker and security agencies ahead of an August 31 deadline. Full Story Top Vampire Hunters: Devices Reduce Energy Waste Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:30 pm PDT PC World - It's 1 a.m., and everyone in the house is asleep. The television is off. The computers are off. Your cell phones and MP3 players are plugged in but no longer charging. And all these products are still sucking electricity. Full Story Top Indiana man charged in Pa. Facebook stalking case Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:28 pm PDT AP - An Indiana man created a Facebook page in the name of an ex-girlfriend he raped in Ohio, then used it to stalk a more recent ex in Pennsylvania and threaten to distribute a secretly filmed video of them having sex if she didn't return to him, police said. Full Story Top Apple sets music event for Sept. 1 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:38 pm PDT Investor's Business Daily - Apple (NMS:AAPL) didn't disclose the information about the event, but a guitar featured in press invitations raised expectations that the company will unveil revamped iPod digital media players. Some believe Apple will launch an iPod Touch with sharper screen and front- and rear-facing cameras. A revamped TV device may also be in the works. Full Story Top Web Faceoff: New Digg vs. Old Digg Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:00 pm PDT Mashable - The new version of Digg is here. After months of testing and a change in CEO, Digg version 4 has been unleashed on the masses. Full Story Top Bump Android app is the new business card Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:00 am PDT Appolicious - The free Bump app for Android is the calling card of the social media scene. Simply download this app and trade information with other users by bumping Android phones. Full Story Top Cracks in computer defenses abound: IBM Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:44 pm PDT AFP - IBM on Wednesday reported that the number of discovered cracks that hackers could exploit in computer software surged in the first half of the year. Full Story Top Red Hat Offers Its Cloud APIs as Industry Standard Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:20 am PDT PC World - As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability, the company said Wednesday. Full Story Top Gmail Glitch Resends Messages Multiple Times Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:50 pm PDT PC World - Gmail users have been reporting in droves that the Google webmail service is resending messages to their recipients, turning these users into accidental spammers who are unintentionally annoying friends, acquaintances and business contacts. Full Story Top Firefox 4 Browser Inches Ahead with Ease of Use Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:56 am PDT PC World - Mozilla on Tuesday released the fourth beta version of Firefox 4, complete with several new features that have the potential to propel the browser ahead of its competitors. Full Story Top PARTING SHOTS: Cali mosque vandalized, Putin shoots a whale Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:55 pm PDT The Upshot - Here's our daily roster of stories that evaded full-on blog treatment: • Police are investigating whether vandalism at a California mosque was a hate crime. A brick was thrown through the window and three signs were left behind on Friday, with one of them reading "No Temple for the God of terrorism at Ground Zero." [...] Full Story Top

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