In the patent battle between Apple and Samsung, a very surprising agreement has been reached – Samsung agreed to not sell of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia. Apple is suing Samsung for infringing on ten patents which ranges from “looks and feel” to the touch screen.

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Roberta Nilerud of Canonical has announced that their cloud storage service – Ubuntu One – has hit the one million users mark. Ubuntu One is a cloud storage service from Canonical that is very tightly integrated into Ubuntu. Although Ubuntu One is installed by default in Ubuntu, it is also available on Windows and Android….

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Users of Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” will be glad to know that KDE SC 4.7 is now available for upgrade. Unfortunately, it is not available for the earlier versions of Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

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More than 35 million South Korean had their personal data stolen after two popular South Korean websites were hacked.

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Debian has announced that they are introducing support for multiarch in Debian Wheezy. Multiarch support means that that a Debian system will be able to install and run applications built for a different target system.

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Today Google has launched a new service called Page Speed Service. What this service does it that it fetches the contents from your server, rewrites them to make them faster and them serve them to the visitors through Google’s servers.

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Last week, we published a story about Oracle removing blog posts by former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz congratulating Google on Android. However, things may not be what it seems. There is a possibility that Schwartz published his blog post prematurely without a full understanding of what Google was planning.

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The patent war between HTC and Apple is about to get a lot interesting. Earlier this month, HTC announced that they are acquiring S3 Graphics Co. for $300 million. By acquiring S3 Graphics, HTC will come in possession of S3 Graphics’ patent portfolio. HTC is now threatening to use these newly acquired patents to take the fight back to Apple.

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A while back, I read something amazing on Twitter. Someone has tweeted an article at TechCrunch which claims that the return rate of Android smartphones are in the range of 30-40%. That is an outrageously huge return rate and I find such number hard to belief. However, being a long time reader of TechCrunch, I…

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