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21 October 2010
News: Apple reveals details of next version of Mac OS X

In a flurry of announcements, Apple has revealed details of its new operating system, a new version of Air and further other launches
20 October 2010
News: Mozilla patches 12 bugs in Firefox

Mozilla has patched 12 vulnerabilities in Firefox, including a second patch for a 'binary planting' problem in Windows that researchers publicised last year.
News: HP's Palm Pre 2 launching on Friday

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced the next-generation Palm OS, calling webOS 2.0 the "most significant upgrade" since the mobile platform was introduced in 2009.
News: Microsoft Office 365 takes fight to Google

Microsoft has made its long-awaited move to package the hosted version of Office for businesses with the unveiling of Office 365
19 October 2010
Video: Interview: The Astonishing Tribe

Swedish smartphone firm discusses user interface innovations
News: Microsoft cleans Zeus bot from 250,000 PCs

Microsoft said its free malware cleaning tool had scrubbed the money-stealing Zeus bot from nearly 275,000 Windows computers in under a week.
18 October 2010
News: Facebook apps leak personal data to third parties

A number of Facebook apps have been providing advertisers with information that make the social networker easily identifiable, according to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal.
News: Lexmark unveils Facebook and Twitter SmartSolutions apps

Lexmark has made two two social-networking apps available for its range of internet-connected printers.
News: New Adobe Reader puts security at centre

Adobe has released the new version of its Reader PDF viewing software, and with it comes a number of changes: a new Roman-based numbering scheme ("Adobe Reader X"), tightened security and, for the browser version, a substantially reduced user interface. Adobe's flagship PDF creation software, Adobe Acrobat, has been upgraded as well.
16 October 2010
News: 'Old school' print techniques for Windows 7

Technology changes at a lightning-fast pace. That's means everything - whether it's PCs, software or even printing concepts - is current one day and replaced by something else the next.
15 October 2010
News: Angry Birds for Android crashes app store

Angry Birds, the popular app for Apple iPhones, has been made available for mobile phones running Google Android.
News: 39% of smartphone owners regularly download apps

Just under two in five (39 percent) of smartphone owners regularly download apps, says OpenCloud.
14 October 2010
News: Opera Mobile to hit Android next month

Opera expects to release the mobile version of its browser for Android-based smartphones in November.
News: In pictures: Windows Phone 7 features and apps

This week, Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 7 – its latest mobile operating system.
News: Microsoft PCs hacked and used for spamming

Microsoft blamed human error after two computers on its network were hacked and then misused by spammers to promote questionable online pharmaceutical websites.
13 October 2010
News: Web users warned of obscure banking Trojans

It's not only Zeus that online bank account users should be wary of. We users need to pay attention to obscure data-theft Trojans such as 'Bugat', 'SpyEye', and 'Carberp', says Trusteer.
News: Virtualisation software 'to help Windows 7 upgrades'

Microsoft has unveiled the beta version of an updated desktop virtualisation package that will help enterprises migrate to Windows 7 by allowing compatibility with legacy applications that would not otherwise work on the new operating system.
News: Microsoft's MSRT antivirus now detects Zeus

Microsoft has revealed its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) now detects Zeus malware.
12 October 2010
News: Trio of Flip camcorders to launch in Europe

Cisco is set to launch three new Flip pocket camcorders in the UK - a new 8GB Flip Ultra HD and 4GB and 8GB versions of the Flip Mino HD. All three will come with image stabilisation and updated FlipShare editing software
News: Oracle to patch 81 flaws this week

Microsoft isn't the only company planning a boatload of security patches this week. Oracle plans to fix 81 vulnerabilities in its database, middleware and operating system products today, the same day Microsoft's fixes are due.