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NewsFactor – Microsoft is getting into iPhone applications. The company just launched a Bing app, approved by Apple and ready for download for the iPhone and iPod touch on Apple’s App Store

AP – Four Google executives should not be held responsible for a video posted online that showed teenagers abusing an autistic youth in Turin, their lawyers argued Wednesday in an Italian court.

PC World – If you’re shopping for a new HDTV this holiday season, you’ve likely seen higher refresh rates — up to 240 hertz — touted among the many bells and whistles that TV makers are offering on their flat panel sets.

InfoWorld – InfoWorld.com has released its “Data Explosion iGuide,” a graphical repository of downloadable PDFs and Webcasts on enterprise data explosion, which InfoWorld — a Web-based publication devoted to emerging technology and hands-on business tech expertise — sees as the most important issue affecting IT today.

PC World – In Esperanto the word is “malica.” It means malicious and it’s the best way of describing many of the search results Google visitors got Tuesday when the clicked on Google’s front-page Doodle sketch, dedicated to Esperanto’s creator.

InfoWorld – Desktop virtualization is one of those technologies that confound the experts.

AFP – Taiwan has developed tiny microchips that could lead to lighter and cheaper laptops or mobile phones, researchers and observers said Wednesday.

PC World – Even if Google employees have kept mum about Nexus One specifics, ROM hackers have been able to dig deep into the phone’s system files to reveal the list of hardware we can expect from the Nexus One.

NewsFactor – Thirty percent of 17-year-olds with cell phones have received sexting photos or videos, while eight percent have sent them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. What’s more, four percent of 12- to 17-year-olds admit they have texted sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of themselves to someone else.

AP – The Miami Herald began Tuesday asking readers of its Web site to voluntarily pay for the privilege, a new wrinkle in newspapers’ ongoing battle to increase revenue from their online operations.