Google Suggest is officially available by default on the Google.com home page. Over the next week, the company plans to roll out the tool so that more and more searchers will start seeing a list of query suggestions when they start typing into the search box.

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“Having privacy native in the browser as opposed to just an extension is something we’ve been advocating for a long time from all the browser manufacturers,” said Ari Schwartz, deputy director at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “Incorporating all of these privacy features at once is a major step forward. Safari has some built-in privacy and Firefox has extensions. Native privacy is better.”

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“The intuitive voice interface not only appeals to technology power users, but also first-time Bluetooth headset users looking for a simple yet effective hands-free solution,” said Taisen Maddern, BlueAnt’s CEO.

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The Blitz comes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a dedicated My Messaging key. The tween-friendly phone also offers a 2.2-inch screen for browsing the Web or checking e-mail.

Also important to the youth demographic, the Blitz is a music player. Verizon’s latest product comes equipped with an MP3 player that can access the Verizon V CAST Music with Rhapsody service.

“The nice part about technology, as with most things, is that mature platforms fragment,” said Michael Gartenberg, vice president of mobile research for Jupitermedia. “So we have these youth-optimized devices that we really have never seen just a few years ago.”

“A growing number of small businesses are looking to mobile technology to run their business,” said Rick Jensen, senior vice president of Intuit’s Small Business Division. “Our goal with these new mobile services is to give QuickBooks Online users the edge they need to compete and manage their busy lives by keeping tabs on their business even when they are out of the office.”

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“We have these fake queues in front of 20 stores around the country to drum up interest in the iPhone,” a spokesman told Reuters. The wire service reported no queues at T-Mobile’s Era stores, which will also began selling iPhone 3Gs on Friday.

The Orange spokesperson told the Associated Press that “the aim was to ‘warm up’ the atmosphere around the launch of the iPhone.”

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But will it work? That depends on whom you ask. Some public-relations pros think it’s a slam dunk. Others say it’s all in the execution. Still others say Seinfeld won’t reach the right demographic.

“As you may expect, building and maintaining a secure mobile platform is a difficult task,” the team wrote. “While we have found and fixed many of our own bugs as well as flaws in other open-source projects, we realize that the discovery of additional security issues in a system this large and complex is inevitable.”

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What is known is that Monday’s software update 2.0.2 didn’t fix connection problems — in fact, it created new issues for some iPhone users even as others are wrestling with MobileMe foul-ups that make receiving e-mail on the handset sketchy.

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Take-Two on Monday confirmed that it expects to sign a confidentiality agreement with EA that allows the gaming giant to enter into Take-Two’s formal process to evaluate strategic alternatives. Take-Two said it is keeping lines of communication with EA open as part of a process to “maximize value” for its stockholders.

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Despite Time magazine’s recent headline that asked “Is Florida the Sunset State?” – an in-depth feature article that explored the worst real estate meltdown since the Great Depression – Haggman looks at the Tri-County area through the lens of transition.

South Florida, he said, is in an evolutionary period. The region is making strides to move from suburban bedroom communities to more livable, urban regions marked by walkable communities and mixed-use developments ala New York or Boston.

“The suburban model is terribly broken and unsustainable,” Haggman said. The latest boom delivered on the promise of high-density development, he noted, and embraced principles of urban revitalization that will bode well for South Florida’s future.

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“Since then, attackers have fine-tuned their exploits, resulting in even more widespread attacks,” Greenbaum said. “The Snapshot Viewer issue impacts any Internet Explorer 7 users that have the ActiveX control installed and any Internet Explorer 6 users regardless if they have the control installed or not. The nature of the control allows the attacker to install [malicious code] and exploit the vulnerability without any user interaction.”

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One financial analyst recalls similar complaints with 3G phones launched in Europe five years ago and speculates that the culprit could be the chipset inside the iPhone 3G. The new handset runs on an Infineon 3G chipset.

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