Tuesday 4 October 2011

Windows XP Usage Share Falls by Record Amount

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October 4, 2011
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Windows XP Usage Share Falls by Record Amount Microsoft's Windows XP lost an unprecedented amount of online usage share last month, according to Web metrics firm Net Applications.
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Massive DDoS Attacks a Growing Threat to VoIP Services When the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in March brought down the voice-over-IP (VoIP) call processing supplied by TelePacific Communications.
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Q&A: Why Consumerization Won't Kill Corporate IT Yes, the cloud is doing more nuts-and-bolts IT functions. But that doesn't mean corporate IT is dead, says Forrester analyst Matthew Brown.
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Hackers Crack Internet Encryption: Should You Be Worried? BEAST is an exploit developed by security researchers to break the TLS 1.0 encryption used by most major browsers and websites. Heres how it works, and how you can protect yourself.
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Lenovo ThinkStation C20 Lenovo originally designed its compact ThinkStation C20 workstation for financial markets, but it can also be considered a powerful graphics workstation or software development platform.
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Excited for Ubuntu Linux 11.10? The Official Countdown Has Begun Promising 'a whole new world,' a dedicated site is now building anticipation and counting down the seconds until next week's release of 'Oneiric Ocelot.'
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LightSquared Might Take Legal Action Over GPS LightSquared may take legal action if it is denied permission to build its planned LTE network because of concerns over interference between that network and...
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Windows Phone 7, Day 25: Conserving Battery Power with "Mango" A "Mango" smartphone is very versatile, but all of those features and functions eat up battery power, so I need to find ways to make sure my smartphone can make it through the day on a full charge.
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Webroot Moves to Cloud-based Malware Detection Webroot has revamped its antivirus product line, moving to a cloud-based system that it says is better suited to detect the deluge of malicious software...
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Legal Expert Says Anti-counterfeit Deal Should Be Scrapped A leading data protection expert said Tuesday that the international anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) is “badly-drafted, breaches many fundamental...
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XSS Web Attacks Could Live Forever, Researcher Warns Websites that accidentally distribute rogue code could find it harder to undo the damage if attackers exploit widespread browser support for HTML5 local storage...
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Red Hat Buys Cloud Storage Vendor Gluster Red Hat is acquiring privately owned storage vendor Gluster for approximately US$136 million in cash to boost its cloud offerings, it said on Tuesday.
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U.S., Russia Slowly Improve Cybersecurity Cooperation Lingering distrust between the U.S., Russia and China has hampered cooperation in the past on cyber security issues, but relations are taking a turn for the...
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MySQL Hits New Development Milestone Oracle is making the open-source MySQL database more stable and feature-rich through a shift in development philosophy, MySQL Vice President of Engineering Tomas...
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Adobe Embraces Touch With Six New Apps Adobe plans to release six applications designed to be used exclusively on touch-based devices, including apps to execute creative tasks such as photo editing...
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Intel's McAfee Unit Agrees to Buy NitroSecurity Intel's McAfee unit is acquiring NitroSecurity in an effort to speed up risk and threat assessment capabilities via its security products, Intel said Tuesday.
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Oracle's Exadata Means Changes for DBAs Oracle's Exadata database machine can deliver the performance improvements the vendor claims, but also demands that IT shops and database administrators undergo...
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LightSquared Lines up Sharp for Devices LightSquared has lined up Sharp as its first partner to build smartphones and tablets for its planned LTE network, as the carrier stepped up its rhetoric about...
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IBM Buys Security Intelligence Minded Q1 Labs In a move to fortify a newly created division devoted to security systems, IBM is acquiring Q1 Labs, the company announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not...
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New EU Proposals on E-waste to Help Consumers Recycle All but the very smallest electrical retailers in Europe could soon be required to take back any old or unwanted electrical items.
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