Apple signs iPhone deals for Europe ... Google Earth looks skyward ... YouTube launches in-video advertising

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News: Apple signs iPhone deals for Europe, report says
News: Google Earth gets starry-eyed
News: Sharp shows slender big-screen LCD TV prototype
News: YouTube launches in-video advertising
News: Turkish police make arrest in TJX data breach case
Windows Tip: Beyond the run box
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Cheating on your spouse? Don't use E-Z Pass


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Apple signs iPhone deals for Europe, report says
Apple Inc. has signed its first deals with mobile phone operators to offer its iPhone in three of Europe's largest markets, ending a period of intense negotiations, according to a report in the Financial Times newspaper.

Google Earth gets starry-eyed
Google Inc. may just be the center of the universe now: A new add-on for its Earth satellite program, called Sky, lets users explore space and see photos of the precise star formation overhead based on their locale.

Sharp shows slender big-screen LCD TV prototype
Sharp Corp. unveiled a prototype TV on Wednesday that's packed with technologies that could appear soon in its products. The wall-mounted TV is just 2 centimeters thick and gets its signal via a high-speed wireless link, meaning the only cable required is for the power.

YouTube launches in-video advertising
Google Inc.'s YouTube division has launched what it hopes will be an unobtrusive way for companies to advertise on videos hosted at its popular Web site. The ads show up briefly as an overlay on the bottom 20% of the video, and people can click and watch the advertisement if they want to.

Turkish police make arrest in TJX data breach case
Police in Turkey have arrested a man allegedly trying to sell data hacked and stolen during the now infamous theft of customer records from U.S. retailer TJX.

Storm spam poses as site confirmation
The Storm malware, which first appeared in January of this year, is showing no signs of slowing down -- just this week reinventing itself as a website membership confirmation message.

Singapore Airlines puts a PC in every seat
To make flying more enjoyable for its passengers, Singapore Airlines Ltd. is adding bigger screens, more in-flight movies and a PC in every seat on its newest planes.


TIP

Windows Tip: Beyond the run box
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

I like to use the keyboard as much as possible and avoid using the mouse, but if I use my Run box for so many different purposes, my RunMRU key fills up with too many saved entries for me to make useful use of this feature. My main priority is for frequently-used UNC paths to be easily accessible from the Run box, so it would be nice if there was an alternative way for me to easily open Web site URLs by simply typing them.

Well, where there's a script, there's usually a way.

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Cheating on your spouse? Don't use E-Z Pass
Divorce attorney Lynne Gold-Bikin's client's ex-husband said that he went to Pennsylvania on business. But she got a court order to release the records of his RFID-based electronic toll pass, which revealed that he went to New Jersey for an assignation instead. E-Z Pass is "an easy way to show you took the off-ramp to adultery," according to another divorce lawyer.

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