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July 2010

Israel lifts ban on iPad imports

Two weeks after it began confiscating Apple iPads being brought into the country, Israel has lifted its ban on the tablet computer. More details

 

Google Says Navigation Will Come to iPhone

Google representatives speaking at a conference in London announced they are working to bring Google Maps Navigation to the iPhone.

No specifics were given on a time frame to add the app to iTunes’ App Store, but we bet it would be ready to go by the time the much-hyped new iPhone goes on sale, which is rumored to be in June.

This move could cripple other GPS device makers . The Google app is also free.

 

The Queen appoints internet pioneer to put Royal art online

Always keen to take advantage of the latest technology, the Queen has made a fascinating appointment. Mandrake learns that she has taken on an internet pioneer to help make the Royal family's art collection available online.

The Queen has created a new post for Jemima Rellie, who put the Tate Gallery at the cutting edge of the online art revolution. She will be the director of publishing and new media at the Royal Collection, which contains around 200,000 works of art worth an estimated £10 billion.More details...

 

Another Blippy credit card found in Google

Another credit card belonging to a Blippy user could be found in Google search Saturday, and the company said it had asked Google to re-index its entire site.

Silicon Alley Insider noticed that a site search of Blippy.com with the query "outstanding" turned up the debit card number of a Blippy user, a day after Blippy discovered that the credit card numbers of four Blippy users could be found via Google. Blippy inadvertently exposed the numbers to the public Internet in February, but did not realize the problem until Friday.

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Pandora and Facebook get social music right

Facebook made several important announcements on Wednesday. I'll leave the details to others--this is a music-focused blog, after all--but I think that Facebook's leaders have positioned it as the infrastructure provider of the emerging social Web and potentially as the first Internet company to challenge Google's dominance in online advertising. Read more...

 

Buggy McAfee update whacks Windows XP PCs

McAfee's antivirus software failed spectacularly on Wednesday, causing tens of thousands of Windows XP computers to crash or repeatedly reboot. Read more..

 

The meaning of Google

As new competitors aim to reshape the Web and new products change its focus, what does it mean to be Google? Read more...

 

Windows 7 - Making your Windows 7 fast

Although Windows 7 is already very fast and reliable but this tutorial will help you in getting the max performance out of your system.

So without wasting any time, here we start our tutorial: Read more..

 

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