Reuters - Global handset shipments grew nearly 5 percent in the second quarter, the first quarter- on-quarter growth in 9 months, marking a reversal of course for the struggling market, researchers at iSuppli said on Friday.
Reuters - Apple Inc has released an iPhone software patch to fix a critical software bug uncovered by two independent researchers that make the devices susceptible to secret attacks by hackers.
AP - Apple Inc. says it has fixed an iPhone vulnerability that lets hackers knock people offline and possibly take over the phones by sending them specially crafted text messages.
AP - Student who admitted downloading, sharing music ordered to pay $675,000 to record labels.
PC World - Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser has just hit a new milestone, reaching its 1 billionth user download. The big event happened Thursday night, according to the company’s official download counter.
AP - EBay Inc. is developing software it might use to continue running the online telecommunications service Skype if it cannot resolve a legal dispute with a separate company run by the service’s founders.
AP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad begins his second term next week undermined by a deepening feud with his fellow hard-liners and under assault from a pro-reform opposition movement that has shown it can bring out thousands of protesters despite a fierce seven-week-old crackdown.
AFP - A wave of bombs targeting Shiite Muslim worshippers at mosques across Baghdad killed 29 people and wounded more than 136 on Friday a month after US troops withdrew from Iraq’s main urban centres.
AP - Spc. Marco Reininger started the year on the dusty streets of Afghanistan. He’ll end it on the campus of Columbia University with the government picking up a large chunk of the $100,000 tab for tuition.
Reuters - The Tupperware party is back and Avon is calling again, ushered in by the U.S. recession.