Security team claims successful iPhone hack

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News: Security team claims successful iPhone hack
News: Microsoft, Ask.com pressure Google on privacy
News: VMware benchmark tool raises fairness questions
News: HP to acquire Opsware for $1.6 billion
News: Intel signs up vendors for Classmate PC in India
News: Acer files patent counterclaim against HP
News: New US WiMax partners aim to match 700MHz
Q&A: Google finds R&D opportunities, pitfalls abroad
ITWhirled: CEO taunts rival company online, then buys it


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Security team claims successful iPhone hack
A team of security experts in Baltimore, Md., said it has found a flaw in Apple Inc.'s iPhone handset that can be used by attackers to access private data stored on it.


Microsoft, Ask.com pressure Google on privacy
Microsoft Corp. is joining Ask.com in offering Web surfers a way to use its search engines anonymously, and the two companies are now calling on the search and online advertising industry to develop a common set of privacy practices.


VMware benchmark tool raises fairness questions
VMware Inc. is making a free benchmarking tool available to IT professionals Monday to evaluate the performance of virtualization technology in their data centers. Meanwhile, it seeks to assure competitors that the benchmarking standards will be fair to all of them.


HP to acquire Opsware for $1.6 billion
Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to buy data center automation software vendor Opsware Inc. for about US$1.6 billion.


Intel signs up vendors for Classmate PC in India
Intel Corp. has tied with three large Indian PC vendors to assemble the Classmate PC, a PC specially designed for schools. The three vendors -- HCL Infosystems Ltd., Wipro Ltd., and Zenith Computers Ltd. -- will start shipping the product to Indian schools next month.


Acer files patent counterclaim against HP
Acer Inc. has filed a patent counterclaim against rival Hewlett-Packard Co. as part of its response to two HP lawsuits.


New US WiMax partners aim to match 700MHz
With wider national coverage than either company could have had on its own, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. say they can achieve on their joint WiMax network some of what Google Inc. and others want to see in the prized 700MHz band.

Q&A

Google finds R&D opportunities, pitfalls abroad
Kannan Pashupathy, the director of Google Inc.'s international engineering operations, oversees the company's growing network of international R&D centers.


ITWHIRLED

CEO taunts rival company online, then buys it
Over a period of seven years, a user named "rahodeb" posted messages on Internet financial forums claiming that the stock for Wild Oats Markets was overpriced. Now, as Whole Foods is in the midst of attempting to buy Wild Oats, it has come out that rahodeb is in fact Whole Foods CEO John Mackey -- who would have a vested interest in keeping Wild Oats' share price down. Hijinks will almost certain ensue.