O2 has announced its UK pricing for the upcoming version of the iPhone, the 3G S. The iPhone 3G S will go on sale on 19 June, costing much more than the iPhone 3G did when that model was launched a year ago.

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Here's the new iPhone 3G S, launched at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference yesterday. It is similar in design to the previous model.

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Microsoft has released 10 security updates fixing a record number of Patch Tuesday holes, including one for a critical hole in Internet Explorer 8 that was exploited as part of a hacking contest at CanSecWest conference in March. The bulletin addresses 31 vulnerabilities. A Microsoft spokesman said: "It's the most since Microsoft started releasing updates on a regular schedule of the second Tuesday of every month in October 2003."

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Despite its imminent release, Windows 7 isn't likely to hit business desktops any time soon. A recent silicon.com CIO Jury found that many IT chiefs are putting off the migration to Windows 7 until at least 2011 but it's clear from their comments that this isn't a rejection of the new OS, but more a question of priorities.

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Despite the Jaguar nipping at its heels, Roadrunner continues to speed past the supercomputing pack. That's according to the twice yearly Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, which is to be announced Tuesday morning at the 2009 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. The list is released in June and November every year.

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Version 3.0 of the iPhone OS will be available soon. Here's a tour of the main enhancements. The cut, copy and paste feature is long overdue. The interface is simple and user-friendly, and it works across all applications including notes, emails, messages, and text on web pages. To access the feature, just double-tap on the desired text. You then can move the grab points to select as much, or as little, text as you'd like. Choose the "cut" or "copy" option, open a new document, and tap the "paste" button. If you make a mistake, you can undo your action by shaking the iPhone.

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Palm announced Wednesday afternoon that Jon Rubinstein will become the new chairman and CEO of the smartphone maker. Ed Colligan will step down as Palm's chief after 16 years with the company. Rubinstein joined Palm as executive chairman in October 2007 and will take over as CEO on 12 June. Colligan will take some time off, then join Elevation Partners, the private equity firm that has a 25 per cent stake in Palm.

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Despite a £75m government plan to roll out 25,000 mobile devices to police forces nationwide by 2010, the majority of forces remain unable to take full advantage of mobile tech. According to Jan Berry, the Home Office-appointed independent advocate for reducing police bureaucracy, handheld deployments are failing to live up to expectations.

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CSC has landed six new deals worth £31m with the Civil Nuclear Police Authority (CNPA) and five UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) companies. The contracts will see the outsourcer provide the six organisations with a number of infrastructure services including desktop, helpdesk and network support, applications management and database administration.

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Security experts have discovered two new attacks targeting Mac users, a new version of a worm and a Trojan hidden inside a porn site. Sophos on Wednesday discovered a new version of the Mac OS X Tored worm, according to a Sophos blog post.

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LTE? Isn't that a Chinese mobile maker?No, no, that's ZTE but you're in the right industry at least. LTE stands for Long Term Evolution - which, in itself, is short for Long Term Evolution of Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network. LTE refers to the likely technical upgrade path for 3G mobile networks. Upgrade path?LTE is all about the mobile industry defining a standard to enable a move to an all-IP-based, data-centric infrastructure. LTE will also mean a speed boost for mobile networks, with downlink speeds of up to 100Mbps and uplink speeds of up to 50Mbps.

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Orange is aiming to launch its first Android handset for the UK before the end of 2009, and says the phone could even be out in the next three months. Yves Maitre, Orange's head of devices, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK at a London event on Thursday that the operator would "definitely" launch an Android phone during this year.

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Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of silicon.com's sister site CNET.co.uk, the home of technology reviews. For the full review and details, click on the link below. What is it: 10.1-inch netbook with 160GB hard drive

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Adobe is taking Acrobat.com out of beta in the US on Monday, and turning it into a business with paid user accounts. The service, which has more than five million registered users will retain its free version, however there are now usage limitations on certain features that can be unlocked by upgrading to one of the two new premium plans. These can be purchased on a monthly or yearly basis and cost $14.99 or $39 per month, or $149 or $390 per year respectively.

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Microsoft has made energy efficiency a key design element of Windows 7, focusing on better power management for end users and centralised tools for IT pros, company executives said Friday. Company engineers sought to make power management features more accessible than previous versions of Windows while at the same time, giving people the ability to customise settings.

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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has cut £110m from its IT outsourcing spend by consolidating its suppliers. Over the past year the MoJ has reduced its number of suppliers from six to two, according to its annual departmental report for 2008/09.

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Approximately two in three UK adults are still not using mobile banking - with both security and inertia playing a part in their decision to shun the technology. According to new research from analyst house Gartner, 30 per cent of UK adults said they were using mobile banking services at the end of last year - leaving 70 per cent who are avoiding the services.

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The Apple iPhone may have got a makeover last week but it's not enough to convince CIOs the device has a place in business. In the latest silicon.com CIO Jury, IT chiefs were asked whether they're planning to offer Apple's touchscreen device as part of their range of corporate mobile phones - and the vast majority of IT chiefs said they are not.

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Developers have released the Linux kernel version 2.6.30, adding support for new file systems as well as performance improvements and new hardware drivers. The Linux kernel is the core used by GNU/Linux operating system distributions from Red Hat, Novell Suse and others. The new release was finalised last week.

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Communications minister Lord Carter has said that "substantial savings" can be made in public spending by building a government-wide cloud computing platform. In the government's Digital Britain report published yesterday, Carter said the so-called "G-Cloud" should be created within the next three years, to allow local and central government departments to share centrally hosted applications.

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On Tuesday, Opera Software released Opera Unite, its application platform for turning your computer into a server from which you can share photos, files, notes, music and websites. Opera Unite's web server is a component of the latest experimental version of the Opera 10 browser - available for Windows, Mac and Linux. But viewers can access the content from any browser.

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Opera has released an early version of a browser-based sharing and collaboration service called Unite, which has been criticised by some security experts as having a level of protection that is too low. Opera Unite, an application platform that turns the user's PC into a web server, was unveiled in an alpha version by the Norwegian company on Tuesday. Components of the browser-based service include file sharing, photo sharing, a shared media player, a chat lounge and the ability to run websites hosted on the user's PC.

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Virtualisation software company Citrix is aiming to drive uptake of its technology by giving away several of its latest products for free. The company's server virtualisation software, XenServer, has been available for free for several months and Citrix is now offering Citrix Receiver, its application delivery client, and Dazzle, its self-service application management software, on the same basis from this week.

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Though Apple isn't saying whether it's working on a touchscreen tablet, the company may have shown its hand at its Worldwide Developers Conference last week. Of course, the Apple tablet has become the Apple press corps' version of a Bigfoot hunt. Some believe the evidence is overwhelming. Others are, well, underwhelmed. And Apple doesn't discuss products before it's ready to.

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Many of the iPhone's long-awaited features will finally become a reality on Wednesday when Apple rolls out iPhone OS 3.0. Current iPhone owners can download the software from iTunes for free, and iPod Touch users can get it as well, but for a fee of $9.95, just like the last OS update. What time exactly, we don't know yet. Apple will only say iPhone OS 3.0 will come out at some point on Wednesday.

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Microsoft has grabbed another Yahoo! executive. Operations VP Kevin Timmons becomes the latest to swap Yahoo! purple for Microsoft blue. In his new role, Timmons will lead a datacentre services team, Microsoft infrastructure services general manager Arne Josefsberg said in a blog posting.

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Researchers at security firm Finjan said on Wednesday that they have uncovered an underground botnet-leasing network where cyber criminals can pay $5 to $100 to install malware on 1,000 PCs for things like stealing data and sending spam. The Golden Cash network, dubbed "Your money-making machine" on its homepage, sells access to botnets comprised of thousands of compromised PCs to cyber criminals for custom malware spreading jobs, according to issue two of the Cybercrime Intelligence Report for 2009.

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The government was warned back in 2004 that immediate action was needed to fix problems in the £12.7bn programme to revamp NHS IT, official reports have revealed. Fast forward to 2009, and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is facing a number of difficulties: key projects to digitise patient records are running four years late, two major suppliers have walked away from the NPfIT and the Department of Health CIO has given suppliers six months to speed up delivery of IT systems or risk seeing the NPfIT replaced.

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CIOs spend countless hours listening to suppliers pitch their technology, so silicon.com decided to make the process a lot more entertaining by putting the vendors on the spot. Welcome to the 60-Second Pitch. Suppliers have just one minute to pitch their product or service to a panel of current and former heads of IT, who then have the opportunity to quiz the vendor before giving the technology a green or red light - just for fun, of course.

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IBM is to invest millions of dollars for research into new mobile services and capabilities. The company said on Wednesday it is setting aside $100m over five years to "bring simple, easy-to-use services to the millions of people who have bypassed using the personal computer as their primary method of accessing the internet".

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Apple has patched nearly four dozen security holes in the iPhone and iPod Touch with its iPhone OS 3.0 release, made available on Wednesday. The 46 flaws could allow an attacker to bypass security restrictions, shut down an application, disclose sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks, or take over the device, Apple said in an advisory.

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Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of silicon.com's sister site CNET.co.uk, the home of technology reviews. For the full review and details, click on the link below. What is it: Update to Apple's premium 15-inch laptop

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Competition in the smartphone market is heating up this summer as one new hot smartphone after another hits the street. The latest is T-Mobile's next Google Android device, called the myTouch. T-Mobile is set to announce the new smartphone today. It is the second smartphone the carrier has introduced that uses Google's open-source mobile operating system, Android. T-Mobile introduced the world's first Google Android phone, called the G1, last autumn. And so far the company claims it has sold more than one million devices.

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Intel and Nokia have announced a long-term relationship that will see the development of Intel-powered, Linux-based, handheld mobile computing devices. The deal between the chipmaker and handset manufacturer was announced on Tuesday. Intel and Nokia will collaborate on several open source mobile Linux software projects and Intel will license HSPA/3G modem intellectual property from Nokia, the companies said.

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