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Saudia Arabia Bans Blackberries
Saudia Arabia has issued a ban of Blackberry services for national security reasons, effective August 6. According to Arab News, approximately 750,000 devices are currently in use in Saudi Arabia [via WSJ].
Motorola and Verizon to Launch TV Tablet Device
Motorola is reportedly working on a 10-inch, Android-based tablet device designed with TV consumers in mind. The device could launch in the U.S. as early as this fall [via Financial Times].
Hail a London Cab on Twitter
A group of London drivers have built up a 100-car black cab service on Twitter. Users of the microblogging platform can tweet or direct message @tweetalondoncab to hail a car. Cabbies are also using the service to aggregate and share real-time data about demands and surpluses of cabs around the city [via The Guardian].
Further News
LinkedIn makes its first acquisition.
You can now drag-and-drop attachments from Gmail to save them to your desktop and review your recent Google searches on your mobile device.
Facebook has released a much-needed update to its Android app and secured the domain Facebook.me. Is a new product in the works, or will it only redirect to Facebook.com?
Verizon has started rolling out over-the-air updates for the Motorola Droid.
Flickr has released its major photo page redesign to all of its users.
The new Hotmail is now available to everyone, the product team announced [via The Windows Blog].
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