T-Mobile unlocks iPhone in Germany ... E-mail flaw found in Leopard ... New project aims to end online stupidity

In this issue:
- Under pressure, T-Mobile unlocks iPhone in Germany
- Philips reeled into CRT 'cartel' investigation
- Group pushing for open data portability stack
- OpenSocial targets social apps API 'balkanization'
- E-mail flaw comes back from the dead in Leopard
- Hackers jack Monster.com, infect job hunters
- New project aims to end online stupidity
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TODAY'S NEWS

Under pressure, T-Mobile unlocks iPhone in Germany
T-Mobile will sell an unlocked version of Apple's popular iPhone in Germany while it fights a legal challenge from rival Vodafone, the company said on Wednesday.

Philips reeled into CRT 'cartel' investigation
Koninklijke Philips Electronics became the latest company named in a worldwide investigation into possible price-fixing in the market for cathode-ray tubes used in TVs and computer monitors.

Group pushing for open data portability stack
A new workgroup says the social networking-Web 2.0 boom has created a conundrum: How to securely deliver sets of personal data across the ever-growing flock of such applications and Web sites with a minimum of pain and complexity.

OpenSocial targets social apps API 'balkanization'
Google's OpenSocial initiative to establish common, standard APIs for creating social-networking applications is still in its early days. But its impact for end users, developers, Web site owners, social-network operators and even business application vendors could be huge in the long run. In this interview, Scott McMullan, Google Apps partner lead in Google's Enterprise division, described OpenSocial as an attempt to simplify the lives of developers by addressing what the vendor considers is a 'balkanization' of social-networking APIs.

Firefox adds security, search with 3.0 beta release
Mozilla has released a beta version of Firefox 3.0, moving its next-generation browser one step closer to general release.

E-mail flaw comes back from the dead in Leopard
A serious security flaw in Apple Mail, patched more than a year ago in 'Tiger,' also known as Mac OS X 10.4, has reared its head again in the latest version of the operating system, according to Heise Security.

Hackers jack Monster.com, infect job hunters
Monster.com confirmed Tuesday that it took down a portion of its online job search service after attackers hacked the site and used it to feed exploits to visitors.


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New project aims to end online stupidity
A pair of developers are working on an open source filtering project that aims to eliminate stupidity in online communication, employing the same kind of Bayesian filtering methods that email programs use to eliminate spam. The obvious question: If perfected, won't such a system shut down the Internet entirely?

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