Remote computer access and 2D car racing: iPhone apps of the week

(Credit: Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET) The big news of the day is the announcement of when Apple’s latest creation, the iPad, will be available. According to Apple, the “magical and revolutionary” product will be in stores April 3 starting at $499, but you can pre-order the device as early as March 12. Only the WiFi model will be available at first, with the WiFi/3G capable iPad to come later in April

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Vlingo 2.0 for iPhone: E-mail, SMS dictation now cost

Vlingo is an app that’s been around awhile in the mobile space, but a new version for iPhone is causing some uproar. With Vlingo for iPhone 2.0 , the company commits the sin of opacity by updating its rather good voice search and dialing application to version 2.0 without making it clear that you can only unlock the intriguing new features with your wallet. Those familiar with Vlingo’s BlackBerry app won’t be surprised.

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Chrome bug kills offline Gmail

A bug in Thursday’s update to the development build of Google Chrome renders it incompatible with Gmail offline. Users who’ve had Gmail and Chrome configured for offline use will find that Chrome crashes as soon as you log in to Gmail.

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Opera Mini now on Windows Mobile. Yeah, you read that right

As if keeping the differences straight between Opera’s Mobile and Mini browsers weren’t tricky enough already, Opera has added another twist by releasing Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows phones , a mobile platform that has previously only run the Opera Mobile app.

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Chrome dev gets rudimentary HTML5 geolocation

In an update to the development build of Chrome, Google on Thursday introduced a rough version of the native HTML5 geolocation API.

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Study lauds IE for blocking Web’s social attacks

An updated study has found that when it comes to blocking Web sites used in efforts to trick people into installing malware, Internet Explorer has widened its lead over the four other most-used browsers. NSS Labs , a product analysis company, issued a third installment of an ongoing study of how well browsers avert socially engineered attacks that try to exploit a person’s trust with a Web address that actually installs and runs malware. The upshot: “Windows Internet Explorer 8 provided the best protection against socially engineered malware,” stopping 85 percent of the attacks at 562 sites.

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