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NewsFactor – A researcher at security software firm Kaspersky Labs has uncovered a sophisticated botnet threat that already controls more than 4.5 million Windows-based PCs around the world, with nearly one-third of all infected machines located in the United States. Moreover, there is reason to believe that the latest strain of TDSS uncovered this week — which commands the infected PCs to run malware programs — will be able to evolve over time.

NewsFactor – A researcher at security software firm Kaspersky Labs has uncovered a sophisticated botnet threat that already controls more than 4.5 million Windows-based PCs around the world, with nearly one-third of all infected machines located in the United States. Moreover, there is reason to believe that the latest strain of TDSS uncovered this week — which commands the infected PCs to run malware programs — will be able to evolve over time.

Appolicious – Apple’s iPhone is performing well in all its forms for being a single device that recently doubled the number of cellular providers carrying it – to two. But Apple’s iOS platform has nothing on Google’s Android, an operating system that currently dominates the market with better than 50 percent of the smartphones on the market running it.

AFP – Microsoft announced on Thursday it is pulling the plug on a free online home energy monitoring tool that allows consumers to gauge their usage and reduce consumption.

AP – New test results show that a proposed nationwide wireless broadband network would produce significant interference with GPS systems used for everything from aviation to high-precision timing networks to consumer navigation devices. Changes to the proposal could reduce interference, but wouldn’t eliminate it.

NewsFactor – In one of the biggest fire sales of the Internet age, News Corp. has unloaded MySpace for $35 million. Just four years ago, the social-networking site had a valuation of $12 billion.

Reuters – Internet telephone company 8×8 Inc said it entered into a partnership with Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE) to speed up deployment of its cloud computing services on a new platform, sending its shares up to an eight-year high.

Digital Trends – New survey figures released by market metrics firm Nielsen show that Google’s Android operating system remained the most popular smartphone platform in the U.S. market, accounting for 38 percent of smartphone users. However, Nielsen also finds that Android’s adoption by new smartphone buyers over the last few months has remained steady at 27 percent, while Apple’s iPhone has shown steady growth, jumping from 10 percent of new acquirers in February to 17 percent in May. In other words, Apple’s iOS is the only smartphone platform to have shown significant growth in recent months.

Digital Trends – Technology giant Microsoft might still be a niche player in the modern smartphone market, with its Windows Phone platform barely off the ground as the company waits for Nokia to throw its still-considerable weight behind the platform. In the meantime Microsoft seems to be milking a good deal of money from another mobile platform—and it’s not even one of theirs as Onkyo, Velocity Micro, and Itronix execute Android licensing deals with the company.

Digital Trends – Hideo Kojima, best known for his role guiding the Metal Gear Solid series at Konami, doesn’t believe we’ll use the term ‘video game’ in the future. Instead, he argues, a new all-encompassing word will be created to replace it. Speaking with Nintendo Power (issue 268), the director predicted the demise of the word, reports Nintendo Everything.