IPhone 3GS Heats Up, DOJ Takes Aim at Google
(PC World)
PC World - The iPhone scored quite a few headlines related to overheating problems with the 3GS this week. Depending on whom you believe, those issues are either real, exaggerated, the fault of users or some combination of the three. Otherwise, as warm weather takes hold above the equator and Bostonians contemplate whether it's time to brush up on our ark-building skills (rain, rain go away), we find this week's IT news offerings cover a broad range. The Mystery of the Shrinking Sheep Why are they growing smaller? Study says warming climate.


 You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - You win some; you lose some. This week China decided its Web censorship filtering software was not quite ready for prime time, while U.S. courts sentenced phone hackers and file swappers to some crime time. Blowin' in the Wind Every time someone talks about the world's need to move on from coal and oil as its main energy sources, the next sentence seems to be that "there is no magic bullet." No one source, they say, can take the...


 Facebook plans to simplify privacy settings
(AP)
AP - Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site. Bluetooth "Big Brother" tracks festival-goers
(Reuters)
Reuters - Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices.
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