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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Russian Internet group, Digital Sky Technologies, has offered to invest $200 million in Facebook in a deal that would value the social networking site at $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Some may be disappointed that the handset lacks a 3G connection, but users can get their e-mails and surf the Web via the EDGE network or with the integrated Wi-Fi.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook and Twitter have helped make social networking a household word. Now they need to make money.

Orange, Apple's wireless partner in France, announced today that it has sold its millionth iphone in that country. Originally selected to be Apple's exclusive carrier in France, Orange began selling the iPhone there in November 2007, as one of only a handful of companies participating in the launch of the first-generation device. Orange enjoyed an exclusive arrangement with Apple until December 2008, when France's competition council.

Concern grows as malware mutates and infects websitesA computer virus that targets Google users is mutating rapidly, turning it into what some are calling the biggest threat to online security today.The worm, known as Gumblar, attacks computers through vulnerabilities in some version of Adobe's PDF reader and Flash player software. Once it infects a victim's PC, it silently redirects the user's Google search results to sites that download more malware onto the machine or allow criminals to conduct 'phishing' attacks to steal login details for banking, social networking and websites.Gumblar has begun to spread through websites where passwords or software have previously been compromised, so that visitors to the sites are unwittingly infected without realising it - a so-called 'drive-by download exploit'. Infected PDF documents and Flash films on the site attack the victim's PC.Although Gumblar has been known about some time, its activity has increased rapidly in recent weeks. The uniden

Former Fan of Palm writes to tell us that an enthusiastic, supportive developer community has fallen victim to corporate ineptitude once again. The preDevCamp started as a community-driven effort designed to mirror the iPhoneDevCamp based on the new 'Pre' product announced by Palm. Unfortunately, suspicion and legal posturing seems to have gutted the founders of any and all enthusiasm they may have once had. When will corporations realize that community support is the best way to drive success? 'As a corporation, I acknowledge that Palm's only responsibility is to its shareholders. There's nothing self serving or evil about that; it's how things work in big business. However there are many keen and willing developers out there, who have been waiting for the arrival of WebOS. A development platform is only a success if it is broadly adopted. Instead of embracing the grassroots upswell of interest in WebOS that preDevCamp fostered, Palm seem to be, at best, oblivious and, at worst, disda

Broadcom is rolling out with a host of products designed to drive a unified networking vision both at the core of the enterprise data center as well as on the edge of a business wireless LAN. The XGS Core fabric architecture and WLAN offerings bring together new and existing Broadcom technologies to offer OEMs integrated solutions that allow them to build cost-effective Ethernet networking products for enterprises. - Broadcom is playing both of ends of the enterprise network with a spate of new products and platforms. Broadcom May 19 rolled out its new XGS Core networking fabric architecture armed with new low-power, high-density Ethernet switches for data centers, enterprises and service provider networks. On ...

The mobile app enables iphone users to speak their Yahoo queries, as well as stay connected with e-mail, social networks, and news feeds.

Hugh Pickens writes 'Forbes reports on a new military-funded program aimed at leveraging an untapped resource: the population of geeky high school and college students in the US. The Cyber Challenge will create three new national competitions for high school and college students intended to foster a young generation of cybersecurity researchers. 'The contests will test skills applicable to both government and private industry: attacking and defending digital targets, stealing data, and tracing how others have stolen it. [...] The Department of Defense's Cyber Crime Center will expand its Digital Forensics Challenge, a program it has run since 2006, to include high school and college participants, tasking them with problems like tracing digital intrusions and reconstructing incomplete data sources. In the most controversial move, the SANS Institute, an independent organization, plans to organize the network Attack Competition, which challenges students to find and exploit vulnerabilitie

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