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Technology and Tech News - FORTUNE on CNNMoney.com. FORTUNE -- Here's an interesting sequence of events, buried between the lines of a Samsung e-mail trail that Apple (AAPL) entered into evidence as part of its big patent infringement suit, now in its third week. -- Oct. 4, 2011: From Samsung's VP of U.S. sales Mike Pennington to Samsung America CEO Dale Sohn and chief marketing officer Todd Pendleton. "As you have shared previously, we are unable to battle [Apple] directly in our marketing. If it continues to be Samsung's position to avoid attacking Apple ... can we go to Google and ask them to launch a campaign against Apple... " -- Oct. 5, 2011: Steve Jobs dies. -- Oct. 7, 2011: Pendleton to Pennington.

"Hey Michael, We are going to execute what you are recommending in our holiday [Galaxy S2] campaign and go head to head with iPhone 4S. " We now know, thanks to documents Samsung released as part of its defense, that its mockery of Apple's devoted fan base (best lines: "I could never get a Samsung.

Unnamed. FT.com | Tech Blog - Mozilla Firefox. Heartbleed bug was consequence of “trivial error” The Heartbleed bug, a flaw discovered on encryption software used on about two-thirds of all websites, was created unintentionally, the programmer responsible has said. Robin Seggelmann, a German programmer, described the flaw as the consequence of a “trivial” error in an update to OpenSSL, the software widely used to enable secure connections, writes Jeevan Vasagar.

Read more Google Glass goes on general sale, sort of It is nearly two years since Google took the wraps of Glass, its ambitious smart glasses project, and said it was aiming to put them on sale by the end of 2013. Read more Dropbox CEO gets ready for IPO Dropbox chief Drew Houston is preparing for life as a public company executive. In an interview with the FT after Wednesday’s launch of Carousel, a new photo-sharing app, and a suite of other new products, Mr Houston didn’t even wait for the inevitable question about an initial public offering to address the topic. by Barney Jopson.

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