US government gets sneak peek of Windows 7 Despite telling the world that Windows 7 isn't even close to completion and insisting Vista will be around for a while, Microsoft has released a build of its next operating system to US law enforcement, a court document claims. Read more.... The future of digital communications Do you remember the days before mobile phones? It's hard to imagine a time when train journeys were not filled with the sound of people shouting "I'm on the train" into little plastic slabs. Mobile phones have moved from housebrick-sized boxes. Read more.... 100,000 downloads of iPhone SDKs Apple has announced that there have already been 100,000 downloads of the iPhone software developer kit (SDK) in the four days since release.
With each developer kit costing $99, even TechRadar.com's rudimentary maths skills can work out that this gives Apple just shy of $10 million, before it even starts raking in 30 per cent of any profits from the sale of the applications that are made. Read more.... AOL to buy Bebo for £417m Internet group AOL has agreed a deal to buy social networking website Bebo for 850 million US dollars (£417 million).
The takeover is the latest in a string of multi-million-pound deals as firms look to tap into the boom in popularity of social networking sites. Read more....
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