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Cnet: Twitter is rolling out a new iPad app and redesigned iPhone and Android apps. The new apps feature links to the Me, Home, Connect and Discover pages on the left side of the screen. The interface is cleaner, and tapping a tweet expands it. In addition, mobile Twitter users now have the option of […]

Computerworld: The governments of Pakistan and Bangladesh have blocked their citizens from accessing Google’s YouTube video sharing service. The two countries said that they asked Google to block a controversial video that they found offensive because of its depiction of the prophet Muhammad. When Google did not comply with the request, they blocked all access […]

The Seattle Times: In a far-ranging interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touched on a number of topics of interest to the technology industry. Here are a few of the more interesting things he said: “Windows 95 was certainly the biggest thing in the last 20 years until now. I think Windows 8 certainly surpasses it.” […]

Cnet: Apple has revealed that it accepted 2 million pre-orders for the iPhone 5 in the first 24 hours of availability. That’s twice as many orders as it took for last year’s iPhone 4S in the first 24 hours. “IPhone 5 preorders have shattered the previous record held by iPhone 4S and the customer response […]

ZDNet: Recently instated Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has made another move sure to boost employee morale: she’s giving each of the company’s 12,000 employees a brand new smartphone. “Ideally, we’d like our employees to have devices similar to our users, so we can think and work as the majority of our users do,” Mayer explained. […]

Ars Technica: Security researchers from Symantec and Kaspersky Labs have published a joint report which sheds a great deal of new light on the Flame malware. Notably, they have discovered that the command and control servers behind Flame also supported three other pieces of malware, one of which is currently in circulation. They also found […]

NetworkWorld: Based on data collected with its “X-Ray” scanning tool, mobile security vendor Duo Security believes that more than half of Android devices in use contain unpatched vulnerabilities. “Yes, it’s a scary number, but it exemplifies how important expedient patching is to mobile security and how poorly the industry (carriers, device manufacturers, etc) has performed […]

TechCrunch: At midnight Pacific time on Friday morning, Apple.com began taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5. Within one hour, the online store sold out of the units available for delivery on launch day, and the ship date for new orders slipped to two weeks. That’s the fastest iPhone pre-order sell-out ever. By comparison, it took […]

The Guardian: A court in Munich, Germany, has banned further sales of Motorola Mobility tablets and smartphones in the country and authorized a recall of products currently in the sales channel. The decision comes in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Apple concerning its “rubber band” scrolling technology. Also known as “overscroll bounce,” the rubber […]

Computerworld: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is planning to introduce the “STEM Jobs Act of 2012” as early as this Friday, and the House could vote on it as early as next week. The bill would eliminate a lottery program for awarding permanent residency visas and replace it with a program to award visas to up […]