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Hey! Google! Wake up! Porn spammers are running rampant over your social networking baby. Reporting them seems to have no effect. Please get a grip.

Hey people, help me out here. What's your reaction to this reader's comment about the so-called 'iPhone 5'? How would you reply, if you were me? Yes, it's another bizarre installment of The Long View...

[Updated to answer an FAQ about iPhone 4S jailbreak and unlocking] Good news, everyone! Now you can jailbreak your iPhone 4S or iPad 2, with iOS 5.0.1 and reboot untethered. At last! Find out how to jailbreak your A5-based iDevice with Absinthe, in The Long View...

Incredibly, would-be wireless provider LightSquared is still tilting at windmills. It continues to waste everyone's time in a vain effort to transmit terrestrial 4G signals on frequencies adjacent to those used for GPS satellites. Anyone with a decent understanding of the real, analog world would have known this will never work, as we'll see in The Long View...
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José 'PepeOlalla' Olalla (pictured) seems like a happy camper this week. He's the CIO of the huge banking group, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). BBVA has just signed a deal with Google, which will see the multinational bank migrate 110,000 users to Google Apps -- the cloud-based collaboration platform. Let's take The Long View...
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We're told by those in the know that Microsoft is in talks to buy Nokia, or at least buy its smartphone division. The well-sourced rumor has the two sides meeting in Las Vegas this week, to thrash out a deal. Let's dissect it and see if it has legs, in The Long View
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[Update includes some additional unlock clarification] Good news, everyone! Now you can jailbreak your iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, or iPad, with iOS 5.0.1 and reboot untethered. At last! Find out how, in The Long View...

Go Daddy has announced that it's changed its mind. It's now not supporting the SOPA bill.

Is Apple's new iPhone apps menu patent valid? I say no. Let's take The Long View...

Hello, Whovians. Ever wanted a handy reference to the Doctor Who canon? Ever needed a visual reminder of all 11 doctors, and his 46 companions? Check out today's The Long View...

IBM has just published its top five predictions for technology in 2016. And, by golly, what a load of utterly bogus, crazy rubbish they are. "5 in 5"? More like Zero in five. Energy from water? An end to passwords? Mind control? All these and more debunked in The Long View...
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What security trends should we look out for in 2012? How should organizations protect against new breeds of threat? Here are my thoughts about endpoint protection trends, in The Long View...
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When is advertising not advertising? When Facebook says so, apparently. It's a tale of a PR car-crash in the making. It speaks volumes about Facebook's attitude, about how much it really cares about your privacy, in The Long View...

There was frightening news from Indonesia ten days ago, when a BlackBerry launch event turned into first a riot, and then a dangerous stampede. The incident hospitalized three and caused 90 others to lose consciousness. All the details are in The Long View...

Does your enterprise operate a Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy? Are your employees running around with their own iPhones, rather than the company-supplied BlackBerry? The scare over the Carrier IQ spyware/rootkit should make you have second thoughts. I'll tell you why, in The Long View...