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• Google's war against scraper sites continues

  Scraper sites hope to exploit the popularity of the original content makers to steer search engine traffic to their sites.

• Apple again rumored to be preparing TV release

  Strong support for the idea of an Apple television comes from analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray.

• YouTube, Google+ let users have video-watching party

  To make a viral video even more infectious, combine the power of Google+'s Hangout and YouTube's video-sharing functions

• iOS 5 beta 5 released to developers

  There are plenty of places to turn to learn about the pros and cons of iOS 5. Here's some of the latest chatter

• Hacker, 10, exposes iOS and Android games exploit

  Zero-day exploits are used or shared by attackers before the developer of the target software knows about the vulnerability

• A look at the new features in Gmail

  A primer to help you wade through the changes Google has made to its Gmail service