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Bing, the decision engine, and Wolfram|Alpha, the computational knowledge engine, have become BFFs. Yes, it all adds up. On Wednesday, Bing and Wolfram|Alpha announced that Bing has become one of the first Wolfram|Alpha Webservice API customers, and probably the biggest.

As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites.

It's been a nasty week for jailbroken iPhones. First there was a blackmail hack, of sorts. Then there was a hack whick "rickrolled" devices, but was otherwise harmless (well, except for turning your iPhone into a Typhoid Mary). Using the same vulnerability, there's a new tool that allows a hacker to download user information off a jailbroken iPhone.

Microsoft says it is cutting off gamers who have modified their Xbox 360 consoles by adding extra chips or hard drives from its Xbox Live online services.

Cloud technology is fast becoming the method of choice for users that want to access all their information where-ever they are in the world... but an actual 'Digital Cloud' is being pondered to be a centre piece of the city's Olympic village.

Federal authorities say they've cracked an international computer hacking ring that stole more than $9 million within 12 hours last November, securing indictments against eight people from Russia, Estonia and Moldova.

Google are about take a huge step towards acquiring a much larger stake in the mobile ad marketplace by purchasing mobile ad firm AdMob for a reported $750 million.

NASA identifies best case for middleweight black hole Astronomers at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have found that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a middleweight black hole to date.

Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak reacts after pleading guilty to third-degree felony burglary and misdemeanor battery Tuesday in Orlando, Fla.

Nov 10 - China's largest wind power generator, Longyuan, hopes to double its fundraising in a Hong Kong IPO to $1.3 billion due to strong demand.

Panda's new cloud-based antivirus software, Panda Cloud Antivirus, has reached version 1.0 and has exited beta, the company announced on Tuesday. That said, there are already new bugs filed against 1.0 on the Panda Cloud Antivirus support forum.

Following up on an announcement by Microsoft on Monday, in which the company noted it's teamed with JiWire to give free wi-fi minutes to those who perform a Bing search at certain "premium" hotspots, Google made a similar announcement on Tuesday. You have to be flying, however: Google's freebie only applies to airports across the U.S.

Intel on Tuesday introduced a new e-book reader, one designed for the visually impaired, which can read digital files of books aloud, as well as capture images from printed material via a 5-megapixel digital camera and similarly read the text aloud at a variety of listening speeds.

The European Union has financed a study to look at how grouping vehicles into 'platoons' or 'road trains' on the continent's motorways could cut fuel consumption, journey times and congestion.

A study by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health has found that being obese as a teenager may be linked with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis as an adult.

An Australian student sparked fears of a new era of computer viruses on Tuesday after creating a worm which infects Apple's iconic iPhone with pictures of 1980s pop star Rick Astley.

Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the end of 2010 it will try again to launch a spacecraft that will be propelled by the subtle pressure of sunlight.

Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5 . It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn't work out.

Microsoft has resorted to Bing bribery before, but now it's using free wi-fi minutes instead of cashback on shopping. The program, which actually began in September, relies on users liking Bing after trying it once, and returning to use it.

The fab open-source alternative browser, Firefox, turned five years old on Monday. On November 9th, 2004, Firefox launched to a world in which Internet Explorer owned 99 percent of the market. My how, things have changed.