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15 September 2010
News: 72% of adults would ban sales of violent games to kids

A poll from Common Sense Media could affect the legal challenge against California's ban on violent video games, at least in the court of public opinion.
News: Microsoft patches critical Windows XP, blocks Stuxnet worm

Microsoft Tuesday patched a critical Windows XP vulnerability that aided attacks based on the Stuxnet worm by letting attackers gain remote access through the operating system's print spooler service.
News: Revamped Twitter.com site takes flight

In an effort to refresh the Twitter.com site, pull users back in from third-party platforms -- and take a swipe at Facebook -- Twitter launched a significant site redesign on Tuesday.
14 September 2010
News: 'Shoot-em-ups' improve decision making

Playing 'shoot-em-up' computer games speeds up how quickly your brain make decisions, says researchers.
News: Adobe Flash suffers zero-day attacks

Less than a week after warning users that hackers were exploiting an unpatched bug in its Reader PDF viewer, Adobe on Monday said Flash, its other prominent program, was also under fire.
News: Microsoft to create new software licence

Microsoft will create a new software license to protect non-government organizations "from falling victim to nefarious actions taken in the guise of anti-piracy enforcement," the company said Monday.
News: Damballa spots huge commercial, on-demand DDoS botnet

The security firm Damballa is warning of a large and fast growing botnet created specifically to deliver distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on demand for anyone willing to pay for the service.
News: Mozilla removes features from Firefox 4

Mozilla, which launched the latest beta of Firefox 4 last week, has started to drop features from the still-under-construction browser.
13 September 2010
News: Microsoft urges Windows users to act against Adobe Reader bug

Microsoft is urging Windows users to block ongoing attacks against Adobe's popular PDF viewer by deploying one of Microsoft's enterprise tools.
News: Google: 'Concerns over Instant unwarranted'

Google shook the search market last week with the launch of Instant, a new feature that lets the company's search engine refresh results on the fly as people type their queries.
News: 2 reasons Google Instant will fail

Google managed to turn a few heads when it announced its new Instant search last week. Mine was one of them.
News: Adobe Illustrator gets HTML5 controls

A new expansion pack to Adobe Illustrator allows designers to build one interface for multiple Web and print platforms
News: Why Google Android is bad for business

The news seems to be all Android, all the time these days, and various analysts have recently revealed predictions that Android will soon be the leading mobile platform. Despite the popularity of the Android platform, though, there are some critical elements of Android that make it unsuitable for business use.
11 September 2010
News: The 11 most annoying web apps

The web is awash with applications and downloads, many of them free. However, not all of them are useful.
News: The 6 best Wi-Fi downloads for Windows

Whether you're at home, in the office or on the go, you probably have at one time or another, connected to the web via a Wi-Fi network.
News: 5 tweaks to turn Android 2.1 into Froyo

It seems like its taking forever for various handset manufacturers to roll-out Froyo, version 2.2 of the Google Android operating system.
10 September 2010
News: iPhone iOS 4.1 update can still be jailbroken

After iOS 4.1 was released this week, Apple's 'cat and mouse' game with the iPhone jailbreaking community continues.
News: Microsoft apologises for cloud service outage

Microsoft apologised to customers of its hosted software services for businesses after at least three outages over the past few weeks.
News: Microsoft to fix four critical flaws next Patch Tuesday

Microsoft will issue nine security updates to patch 13 bugs in Windows, Office and its Web server software next week.
News: Microsoft Windows Phone 7 to launch 11 October?

A website specialising in gadget news and reviews reported that Microsoft will formally launch Windows Phone 7 on October 11 at an event in New York.