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IBM worries iPhone's Siri has loose lips

  If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks. If your wondering why its because Siri ships everything to her to a big data center in Maiden, North Carolina.  The story of what really happens to all of your Siri-launched searches, e-mail messages and inappropriate jokes is a bit of a black box. 

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Bing fires at Google with new social search

Microsoft is launching a major overhaul of its also-ran search engine Bing on Thursday, aiming at a weakness it sees in market leader Google.The most prominent new element in Bing's redesign is "Sidebar," a social search feature that scours users' social networks to surface information relevant to their search queries.Like Google, Bing's Sidebar will display posts from people in your social networks who have recently discussed a topic related to what you just searched for. A search for "San Francisco restaurants" will return posts from your friends talking about good eats in the city.

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New iPhone to get supermodel look -- no curves -- report says

The new report from iLounge said that the sixth generation iPhone will launch with a taller 4 inch screen, metal black, remade dock connector ,and new aspect ratio. The iPhone getting longer with no shift in width would mean a change in the aspect ratio . Instead of the "teardrop" shape that has been written about, this report said that Apple will stick with a glass-bodied design made partially of thinner, stronger Gorilla Glass 2. ILounge is saying that this will add pixels to the top and bottom of the screen.  This could really affect third-party software.