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The AntiSec hacker group claimed last week that it has more than 12 million Apple iOS Unique Device IDs. The hackers said that the UDIDs were obtained from a FBI employee laptop, both Apple and the FBI had denied the breach. Paul DeHart, CEO of BlueToad, a  Florida based publishing company has admitted to NBC News that the stolen data had been obtained from BlueToad’s  servers. BlueToad technicians [...]

Google was awarded $1,130,350 in fees stemming from its patent battle with Oracle,  Californian Judge William Alsup ruled on Tuesday. Google has asked for  $4 million for fees related to court appointed expert Dr. James Kearl, as well as electronic document discovery conducted by FTI Consulting. Oracle had sued Google in August 2010 for  $6 billion for  widespread infringement of Java related copyrights [...]

Facebook launched a beta version of a new notifications API, a tool for developers that lets all Facebook apps send notifications to users. This mean that your Facebook notification alerts would increase , especially if you have signed up for lots of apps. “In recent tests, people who received high-quality app notifications were five to ten times more likely to click through than they were for [...]

AmazonLocal has been launched in the UK, starting with London with the aim to eventually expand across the UK, it joins the likes of Groupon, Living Social and KGB Deals. So far the service has been US-only. Bargain hunters can also personalise the deals they are targeted with by using a deal preferences section, which allows them to rate how much they would prefer to be offered entertainment and travel, [...]

Microsoft had promised to release its SkyDrive for Android app soon and the app has now debuted in the Google Play store. Microsoft already has Windows Phone and iOS apps for SkyDrive and offers virtually the same features in the Android version. SkyDrive is not uniquely different than Google Drive, Dropbox or other competition, however, it offers new users more free storage (up to 7GB) and additional [...]

 Amazon’s Cloud Drive is at last available in the UK, after first launching over a year ago in the US. Pricing for the new UK version of Amazon Cloud Drive is identical to that of the US and includes a 5GB free account. The service can be managed from within  Amazon account online, or through  the free standalone PC  or Mac app for desktop dragging and dropping.  The Cloud Drive comes [...]

Microsoft launched a newly designed corporate  logo featuring a new symbol and a new font. This is the first time that Microsoft has revamped its logo since February 1987. The new logo shows the symbol for Microsoft’s Windows operating system — four squares in red, green, blue and yellow — positioned to the left of the name Microsoft in grey. “It’s been 25 years since we’ve [...]

Google+ has started rolling out custom URLs to its most popular social network pages. for the select profiles the pre-approved URL  box will appears on the  page prominently, sticking out along the top of the  page. “Today we’re rolling out custom URLs to thousands more verified (and well-known) brands and individuals. If you’re part of this expanded roll out, you’ll be [...]

Facebook released a new massive  iOS app today for its users on Apple iPhone and iPad, saying it would speed up the performance of people accessing the world’s biggest social network on mobile. The new mobile app is “a major update to the Facebook for iOS rebuilt from the ground up, to focus on one thing, performance,” said Facebook product manager Mick Johnson. Facebook for iOS [...]

Facebook started rolling out a revamped version of Facebook Messages on Wednesday. You’ll no longer have to navigate back and forth between your inbox and your actual messages. The new Facebook Messaging allows for searching messages for whatever keywords are searched for. Facebook also introduced a Gmail type keyboard shortcut system which can be viewed by pressing Alt + Q on a PC or Ctrl + Q [...]