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Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said. The virus has been detected in the Netherlands and can only attack iPhones whose users have disabled some pre-installed security features, according to analysts monitoring the progress of the virus, known as the Duh Worm.
Microsoft, News Corp mull web pact
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday. News Corp, which owns such papers as the Wall Street Journal and the Sun, started the discussions, which were at an early stage, the source said.
Twitter's Stone could IPO, no interest in selling
OXFORD, England (Reuters) - Twitter, the social internet firm that tracks trends through individuals' updates of events around them, may eventually go to the stock market for funding if necessary, its co-founder Biz Stone said. The three-year-old company was already making some revenue and would concentrate on that next year. "2010 is really going to be the revenue year. I don't know if we're going to be profitable, but we have plenty of time," Stone said on Monday.
eBay says fixes search glitch on website
NEW YORK (Reuters) - eBay said on Sunday it had restored a search function on its website overnight Saturday after a glitch led to searches returning either limited or no results throughout the day. The technical issue on eBay.com resulted from a surge in live listings as sellers ramped up for the holiday season, the global e-commerce and payments company said in an e-mailed statement.
Google PC will start in seven seconds or less
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web. Google gave the first public look at its Chrome OS four months after declaring its intention of developing the PC's main software, a move that pits it directly against Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc.
China attacks "biased" U.S. cyber-spying report
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Monday accused a U.S. congressional advisory panel of bias for a report in which it said the Chinese government appeared increasingly to be piercing U.S. computer networks to gather useful data for its military. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in its 2009 report to Congress released last week that there was growing evidence of Chinese state involvement in such activity.
Smartphone growth to continue strong in 2010
BARCELONA (Reuters) - The wireless chip industry expects smartphone market surge to continue, with British microchip designer ARM saying growth would likely even accelerate further next year. The smartphone market slowed drastically in the September quarter, but chip makers -- whose products are sold weeks, if not months, before phones are sold to consumers -- said they were seeing strong market growth, indicating third quarter slowdown was temporary.
Vodafone eyeing new Internet revenue options
LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone is looking at new ways of making money from the mobile Internet, such as offering premium services, as the battle for control of an expanding market dominated by search engine Google heats up. All the major mobile operators have suffered in the last year in mature markets such as Europe from falling voice revenues due to competition and the economic downturn.
Tesco signs up C&W for broadband push
LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, has signed up Cable & Wireless to help it provide broadband and home phone services as part of its drive to increase revenues from non-grocery businesses like telecoms. The supermarket group, which is holding two days of seminars for analysts and investors on its retail services ambitions, said on Thursday the five-year deal would allow Tesco Telecoms to step up expansion outside of its mobile phone business.
Nokia sees corporate interest for netbook
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Top cellphone maker Nokia has seen growing interest among companies for its first netbook or mini-laptop, a company executive said on Thursday. "When we launched the Booklet 3G ... we thought it to be primarily a consumer device, but after the launch a big, growing interest is coming from companies," Heikki Norta, head of Nokia corporate strategy, told a seminar.
