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A bug in FaceTime lets you listen in to the audio if you try to call someone -- even if they don't pick up. You first video call someone then try to add yourself to the group call. The FaceTime bug seems to be a huge privacy problem.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co's flagship Galaxy smartphone looks very similar to Apple's iPhone, but the South Korean firm has not violated the iPhone design, a Seoul court ruled on Friday. The South Korean ruling comes as the two technology titans are locked in a high-stakes global patent battle that mirrors a fierce rivalry for industry supremacy between two companies that control more than half the world's smartphone sales.

Apple on Tuesday issued what appeared to be a minor update to its iPhone 3G smart phone, noting in its terse support documentation only that the release "fixes bugs." But the size of the iPhone 2.0.2 update, as it's called--a massive 250 MB--belied Apple's attempts at passing this off as a minor update. More important, the company's wireless partners have confirmed that Apple is racing to fix an endemic and embarrassing series of connectivity problems that have plagued the iPhone 3G since it launched last month. Apple's event marketing approach certainly has its advantages, and with the iPhone specifically the...

When I came home from work this afternoon a small package was waiting for me... Apple's newest operating system: Macintosh OS-X Panther. The system comes on three disks plus another disk of Developer Tools. The installation actually only uses two of the CDs and in fact the second only carries the "i" applicatin software and the extra language files. Updating my OSX .2.8 installation on my 1.6Mhz G5 took only 22 minutes... plus another 15 or so for the software and extra languages. Although I prudently backed up my critical files, the installation went smoothly and my files were left...