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Reuters - Hackers have planted viruses in video games for smartphones running on Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system, according to a security firm specializing in mobile devices.

PC World - Human rights activists are worried that new software mandated by Vietnamese authorities may lead to an Internet clampdown in the country's largest city.

PC World - Oracle is making further job cuts related to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, primarily in Europe and Asia, the company said in a regulatory filing Friday.

Macworld.com - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer fires back at Apple CEO Steve Jobs for some hot Steve-on-Steve action, Moscone prepares for Apple’s show; and Stephen Colbert has some strong words for intellectual property thieves. Join us in the remainders for June 4, 2010—if you dare!

AP - Oracle Corp. is cutting more jobs as part of its takeover of slumping computer-server maker Sun Microsystems.

AP - Microsoft is shutting down a program that gave online shoppers rebates when they found items through Bing search.

NewsFactor - With Apple likely to launch its new iPhone 4G at next week's Worldwide Developer's Conference, as the company has done for the past three summers, speculation is rampant about what new features might emerge that haven't been seen in two leaked prototypes.

Christopher Null - Say you’ve spent the last year painstakingly writing a book, and now you are ready to offer it to the world. What do you do?

Ben Patterson - The wait is almost over. Come Monday's keynote at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, odds are we'll get a look — perhaps not the first, after all those crazy leaks — of the next iPhone, complete (supposedly) with a new, flatter shell, dual cameras, and a higher-resolution display. But what else will Steve Jobs pull out of his bag of tricks?

Appolicious - The new iPhone will finally be unveiled at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference on Monday. Before getting to know the new iPhone, we checked in with Apple aficionado Andy Ihnatko about the impact to date of Apple's last major announcement - the iPad.

AP - THE BUZZ: Apple CEO Steve Jobs is likely to show off a new version of the iPhone during an annual software developers conference that opens Monday in San Francisco.

PC World - Steve Spohn is wheelchair-bound, on a ventilator and can barely move because of muscular dystrophy, but he's still able to play video games. He participated in last week's Games for Health conference in Boston, where the AbleGamers Foundation hosted the Hardware Hackers Challenge, a contest to build a handicap-accessible game controller in under two hours.

AFP - A Quebec court ruled a provincial agency was wrong to install Microsoft software on its computers without allowing others, such as Linux dealers, to bid on the lucrative contract, AFP learned Friday.

AP - After a series of leaked prototypes, it's almost a given that Apple Inc. will unveil a new version of the iPhone during its annual software developers conference that opens Monday in San Francisco.

AP - Some websites, including ones with pornography, that were previously blocked by China's Internet censors were accessible inside the country Friday, though reasons for the change were unclear.

Reuters - Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest telecoms operator, is in talks to sell Apple's iPad and future versions of the iPhone on the island, its chairman said on Friday as it turns to data services to fuel growth.

Reuters - Apple Inc's next-generation iPhone, which CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to unveil on Monday, will have to really set new standards in multimedia content and function to wow Wall Street and consumers.

Reuters - The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it had concerns about the case of a Kuwaiti blogger on trial for allegedly insulting Kuwait's head of state and had raised the matter with the Kuwaiti government.

PC World - In a reversal of course, Google now says that it will give European regulators data it secretly collected from open wireless networks over the past three years.

Christopher Null - Now in a bit of a rough spot as it fends off attackers ranging from the 2-million-units-sold Apple iPad to the Barnes & Noble Nook, Amazon is said to be preparing another update to its Kindle e-book reader hardware for release in August.