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Samsung Galaxy Mega is official and comes in 6.3- and 5.8-inch sizes

We knew Samsung was planning more devices, but we didn't expect the arrival of two Galaxy Mega smartphones at the same time. Both are apparently headed to Europe some time next month, continuing to prove that Samsung are willing to test out any screen-size. The 6.3-inc

Windows 8 tablets shown off at D9

Created on 01 June 2011

Microsoft is showing off their Windows 8 tablet tonight at D9, left is an image of the crew getting setup and an early glimpse of the tablet was snapped by thisismynext.com. We will be updating this post as it is being blogged across the Internet. Unfortunately, there is not live stream of the event.

Twitter Finally Aims To Make Search Personally Relevant

Created on 01 June 2011

Twitter Search While much of the talk leading up to today was about Twitter’s move into the photo game, the bigger news is actually what they’ve done to their search product. They’ve completely rebuilt it. And while it may not be immediately apparent, the product should be much, much better than before.

Twitter details the project in a long post on their Engineering blog today. Notably, they go into the backstory of Twitter Search, which evolved from the Summize purchase in 2008. While that product worked well for a while, the technologies behind it would not allow it to scale to the level that Twitter eventually needed. So things had to be re-written — on the fly.

Google is forced to purge malicious Android Market apps once again

Created on 01 June 2011

MOBILE SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTOR Google has removed 26 malware infected apps from the Android Market that are believed to have compromised the personal data of thousands of users.

Security firm Lookout said that the apps were likely created by the same developers who were responsible for a previous attack of Android malware called 'Droiddream' back in March. This affected 21 apps that were also suspended from the Android Market.