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• 12 April 2011

• News: HTC adds dual-core Sensation smartphone to its lineup

  HTC's latest smartphone, the Sensation, has a dual-core 1.2GHz processor from Qualcomm that holds the promise of faster graphics and is due to ship in Europe in the second quarter, the company said at an event in London on Tuesday.

• News: CESG widens smartphone approval beyond BlackBerry

  The range of Smartphones in use by government departments could be about to widen after the Communication Electronics Security Group (CESG) published new guidelines on securing devices from a range of platforms.

• News: Researcher confirms kernel bugs will dominate Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft will patch a large number of Windows kernel-mode device driver vulnerabilities later today, the researcher who reported them said.

• News: Nokia launches two phones running an updated Symbian OS

  Nokia launched an updated version of its Symbian^3 mobile operating system on Tuesday, along with two phones running the software, the X7 and the E6.

• News: Cloudera expands Hadoop ecosystem

  Cloudera has released version 3 of its Hadoop distribution

• News: Google acquires music sync company PushLife

  After a more than two-year investigation, prosecutors will not bring a case against BT and an online advertising software company for running secret trials of software that monitored people's web browsing without their consent.

• News: Adobe confirms critical Flash zero-day bug

  For the second time in the last four weeks, Adobe has told users that hackers are exploiting an unpatched bug in Flash Player, again by embedding malicious code inside a Microsoft Office document.

• News: Leaked screenshots offer first look at Windows App Store

  A leaked set of screenshots gives us the first look at the Windows App Store being integrated into Windows 8.

• News: Java developers get OLAP API

  The olap4j API can access multiple servers, including Mondrian OLAP, Pentaho BI Server, and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services

• News: Closing Symbian code won't have much impact

  Nokia's recent decision to close the source code for its Symbian smartphone OS likely won't affect most application developers or consumers.

• News: Remains of the Day: Next time, on Biography

  The authorized biography of Steve Jobs will make its way to shelves next year--will carbon-fiber-encased Macs be close behind? Elsewhere, RIM wonders why nobody pays attention to it after it's yelled "Look at me! Look at me!" at the top of its lungs, and Microsoft's new app store takes a page from somewhere or other. The remainders for Monday, April 11, 2011 are hot off the presses.

• 11 April 2011

• News: Despite new Flash Builder, still no Flash for iPhone, iPad

  Adobe's coming updates to its Flash Builder and Flex cross-platform software development tools, announced Monday, don't do anything to address the exclusion of the Flash Player from Apple's iOS products.

• News: AirPlay hack allows streaming to any computer

  An enterprising developer has found a way to emulate Apple's AirPlay protocol and extend its functionality to allow streaming of audio to any computer without the need for special equipment.

• News: CentOS 5.6: A Free Powerhouse for Web Servers

  Linux distribution releases have been coming fast and furious this spring, bringing fans of the free and open source operating system more choices and more capabilities than ever before.

• News: Ex-NASA cloud builder's startup boosts OpenStack software

  The former chief architect of NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has founded a new company that will use the OpenStack project to bring cloud capabilities to enterprise customers.

• News: Ransomware squeezes users with bogus Windows activation demand

  A new Trojan tries to extort money from users by convincing them to dial international telephone numbers to reactive Windows, a security researcher said today.

• News: The Android How To Guide: Tutorials, Tips, and Updates

  From free software downloads and expert tips and tricks, to device reviews, news and insider commentary, we offer you our guide to help master your Google Android device--updated regularly by CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco.

• News: LTE wireless for real-time, remote video streaming announced

  Verizon Wireless and LiveCast Media today announced 4G Mobile Reporter for use with Verizon's LTE network to send live high-definition video wirelessly with a laptop and USB modem.

• News: Friends Aloud iOS app brings Facebook to your ears

  Like Google before it, Facebook has been striving to be all things to all people: an e-mail service, a newspaper, even a place to share videos. But it hasn't been a radio station--until now.

• News: Apple will dominate tablet market through 2015, says Gartner

  Apple's iOS will dominate the tablet market through the middle of the decade, Gartner analysts said today.

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