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RIM could be preparing to launch a music streaming service based on Didiom, according to our latest tip.  Didiom is both a music marketplace, which offers on-device downloads, and a way of streaming tracks from a user’s iTunes library direct to their handset.  The company already has a number of client apps for different devices, but according to our source this would be a Didiom-powered collaboration with RIM.

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Back in May 2005 Microsoft announced OneCare, its own take on an antivirus and antispyware solution. It didn’t do nearly as well as everyone was expecting. Of course there’s are a number of reasons for this and perhaps more important than the fact it wasn’t up to snuff was this: it wasn’t free. Well now…

In a move that many had seen coming for some time Microsoft has turned the tables and announced it will be offering a 100 per cent free security suite providing protection from viruses, spyware, rootkits and Trojans - or ‘malware’ as the whole lot tends to get grouped these days.

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Appearing to cave to Hollywood demands, Apple has quietly added a restrictive copyright protection mechanism to its new MacBooks that is preventing customers from watching movies on external displays.

Apple has secretly included a copy protection scheme called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) in the external display ports on the latest models of it MacBooks, released in the middle of October.

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We all know iPhone owners do everything with their phones but talk, and a software company has heard them loud and clear. The free iPhone app OpenTable enables users to make restaurant reservations by tapping a few buttons — without (gasp) having to speak to a human.

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There are a lot of add-ons for Firefox out there.  Over 5,000 of them to be more precise.  But, its a bit hard to actually find the most useful ones unless you’re searching for them specifically.  Mozilla is trying to help us all out with that.  It recently opened a page called “Fashion Your Firefox,“ an easier way to find the add-ons that you might find useful.

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Remember when Microsoft was hit with a lawsuit over its “Vista Capable” stickers? How about when the judge unsealed emails revealing that after a long battle to promote Vista’s graphics-intensive Aero UI, it capitulated and lowered the requirements for the sticker so Intel could keep on selling its graphically-challenged (i.e., WDDM noncompliant) 915 chipset? Yeah, that was awesome. Connoisseurs of corporate drama should appreciate the latest development — the judge has made public a second batch of emails revealing that MS execs were at odds about that decision.

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IPhone owners might soon be able to use their handsets as modems for their computers, but Toshiba’s G450 takes exactly the opposite approach. The little device is a 3G modem first, and a cellphone second. On top of that, Toshiba has squeezed in USB storage and an MP3 player.

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It’s been a few months since we first heard that Korea-based Digifriends was courting NextWave Wireless to bring the modular MID shown at CES 2008 to the US. Whether flowers and moonlight serenades were involved in the courtship or not

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What a long strange trip it’s been. Mark this one as done folks - Yahoo has officially announced that Jerry Yang will step down as CEO of Yahoo. Yang has been at the helm of what can only be described as a sinking ship since June of 2007. His moves have been made under a microscope, his decisions have been questioned by just about everyone with a keyboard and he has been the subject of much criticism, to say the least. What’s done is done though and suffice it to say we definitely do not envy whoever the appropriately-named executive head hunting firm Heidrick & Struggles finds as Yang’s replacement. He or she will inherit a mess of epic proportions as Yahoo struggles to stay afloat and no doubt begins begging Microsoft, even more than Yang did, to come back to the bargaining table.

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Man, you just can’t win these days. So Apple offers up an energy-efficient, forward-thinking Mini DisplayPort on its latest MacBook / MacBook Pro, and now users that are still rocking displays sans HDCP-compliant HDMI / DVI ports are up fecal’s creek without a paddle. Apparently select content in the iTunes Store is laced in HDCP, which isn’t all that unexpected in and of itself; the problem comes in when you realize that the new unibody machines don’t offer a VGA / VGA-to-component output, meaning that you have to connect it to an HDCP-compliant display if you want to see anything. We know, one word in particular keeps coming to mind to describe this fiasco: awesome.

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