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Apple tracks iPhone and Leopard users

A discovery buried deep within the code of some iPhone applications may be cause for concern for those who like to know who’s seeing their data.

Windows XP SP3 moves closer to completion

Beta testers have received access to a release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3, but general consumers still have a long wait until they’ll see SP3 available for download.

TinyURL Outage Illustrates the Service’s Risks

The link shortening and redirection service TinyURL went down apparently for hours last night, rendering countless links broken across the web. Complaints have been particularly loud on Twitter, where long links are automatically turned to TinyURLs and complaining is easy to do, but the service is widely used in emails and web pages as well.

Top 15 Leopard Hints

It’s been almost a month since Leopard was officially released, and in that month we’ve had some time to play with the OS and get to know it. Here are the Top 15 Leopard Hints we’ve come across this past month.
The Internet Ends in 2010 – Unless you give AT&T what they want (Karl/DSLreports)

The Internet Ends in 2010 – Unless you give AT&T what they want  —  More warnings of a looming bandwidth apocalypse, this time from USAToday, who insists that the Internet “will start to seem pokey as early as 2010, as use of interactive and video-intensive services overwhelms local cable, phone and wireless Internet providers.

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