From social networking to utilities software If you’re hunting for the best BlackBerry apps, then why not trawl our list of productivity tools, utilities, and entertainment titles exclusive to RIM smartphones.

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The 12 best BlackBerry apps

Beta mongoose flaunts new face Review   Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10.10 is on track for its final release October 10.…

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Ubuntu ‘Maverick Meerkat’ erects own App Store

Un-Flash eyes world of Google Steve Jobs forbids you from building iPhone applications with a language other than Objective C, C, or C++. If that other language is Adobe Flash. What about if it’s not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden?…

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Unity – iPhone code swap approved by Jobs (for now)

That’s Doctor Brown to you, says unemployed PM Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.…

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Gordon Brown joins World Wide Web Foundation

Execution wins. Not ideas Open…and Shut   Businesses aren’t built on ideas. They’re built on execution. Google didn’t win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious way to monetize it.…

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Paul Allen’s patent madness not worth single penny

Drops unwanted code in open source developer laps Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.…

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Google Wave washes ashore in soggy cardboard Box

Snazzy new social thing walled off Ping, Apple’s latest foray into social networking, won’t play nice with Facebook – despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs’s on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.…

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Apple Ping unfriends meanie Facebook

Maverick Meerkat skips Alpha 4 The beta instalment of Ubuntu’s Maverick Meerkat has arrived slightly earlier than expected.…

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Ubuntu 10.10 released to beta

Remember the Googasm Google is celebrating Chrome’s second birthday by releasing a new stable version of its rapidly evolving browser, offering a slightly simpler user interface, an automatic form filler, and the ability to synchronize extensions and form data across machines.…

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Chrome celebrates second b-day with sixth release

‘We’re more consistent. And we’re here’ Microsoft has tried to justify its Silverlight media player in the age of HTML5.…

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Microsoft buffs Silverlight for HTML5 video contest