Election 2010: Will it be the Sun or Twitter wot won it?
Who will decide the outcome of this election? Sun readers or the Twitterati? It's just one of the questions that make this the most fascinating of contests and a reason why nobody, thus far, is willing to predict the outcome.This uncertainty has created something of a panic among Conservatives and that significant portion of the press that has come out in their favour. After all, the party looked to be a shoo-in a couple of months ago.
The Guardian

Lonely Planet freebie sparks 3m iPhone downloads
Lonely Planet's iPhone apps have been downloaded more than three million times since 13 of them were made free earlier this week, the company has announced. Its travel guide apps for 13 European cities were switched to free in the wake of the volcanic ash cloud that's laid waste to flight schedules in the last week.
Mobile Entertainment

Foursquare: One million users and an imminent deal...
I'm mayor of our local baby swimming pool on Foursquare and, given that I'm not very competitive when it comes to gaming, that may well remain my biggest LBS victory. Founder Dennis Crowley told the Observer last week he wants Foursquare to be "about encouraging adventure". I'm not sure that's quite what he had in mind.
The Guardian

Cybercriminals step up click theft from online advertisers
Cybergangs are increasingly targeting advertisers who pay website owners for every click on their online ads, two click fraud technology suppliers have found. In the first quarter of 2010, 17 per cent to 29 per cent of clicks to online ads were fraudulent, up from 15 per cent to 25 per cent the previous quarter, according to separate estimates by Click Forensics and Anchor Intelligence.
Computer Weekly

Microsoft pulls faulty Windows patch
Microsoft is pulling an update for Windows 2000 issued in this month's Patch Tuesday because it simply didn't work. Update MS10-025 was designed to fix a flaw in Windows 2000 systems running Windows Media Services (WMS). It turns out, however, that the patch failed to mend the problem it was designed to address.
PC Pro

Social site Blippy spills credit card data
Social networking service Blippy has become the latest technology firm to be linked to a data leak. A report on technology finance news site Venturebeat said that Blippy had left user credit card details open to search queries, and had revealed multiple credit card numbers. The report suggested that the social networking site, which allows users to share information on credit card purchases, could yield user data through a targeted Google search.
V3

Adobe abandons iPhone code tools
Adobe is to stop making software tools that allow Apple's iPhone and iPad to use its popular Flash technology.
The decision reverses an earlier pledge in which it said it would help get Flash working on the gadgets. Flash is very widely used on the web and many sites use it to power animations, media players and other multimedia elements.
BBC

Cost of mobile data abroad is a scandal
Holidaymakers are being milked by extortionate charges to access the internet on their mobile phones. We are planning to go on holiday next month to France. Which is nice. I am also planning to take my phone now that the mobile internet is exploding. Which is also nice. The trouble is that I am actually planning to use my phone in order to access the web (email, Twitter, Flickr etc), and that's where the problems start.
The Guardian

Son's autism leads to innovation
The father of a child with severe autism has developed technology to help him communicate. Stephen Lodge said the idea for his Speaks4Me system came to him years ago but has been waiting for technology to catch up in order to make it a reality. His eleven-year-old son, Callum, is non-verbal and uses his father's invention to speak.
BBC

Israel Lifts Ban On Apple iPad Devices
Apple afficionados residing in Israel breathed a sigh of relief after the country's Communication Ministry lifted the ban on Apple's iPad tablet computer. This follows a technical review which established that the WiFi network of the device will not hamper the country's own network.
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