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• 07 April 2011

• News: Users find IE9 upgrade in Windows Update

  Although Microsoft has denied pulling the trigger on IE9 upgrade offers, some users say the browser is showing up on their Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines' Windows Update lists.

• News: 2010 was the year of Android, ABI Research shows

  ABI Research unloaded a trove of data on the smartphone market during a webinar today that highlighted Android's dramatic rise over the past year.

• News: Google boosts Android security with encrypted tablets, remote PIN reset

  Google is trying to make Android more appealing to businesses by adding IT administration tools to Google Apps that can encrypt Android tablets or remotely locate a lost Android phone and reset the PIN.

• News: iPhone and iPad Crapware: 5 Apps to Avoid

  With more than 350,000 apps on Apple's App Store, you're sure to find some real stinkers. How can you avoid these crappy apps, or CRAPPS?

• News: BAA hires small Cumbrian firm to deliver ID system

  BAA Airports has hired a small Cumbria-based IT services company to provide an online ID booking system that will be used by more than 50,000 employees.

• News: New GNOME cuts the clutter

  Five years in the making, the new version of the Gnome Linux desktop interface has been radically reworked

• News: Fast phone patching still a fantasy

  Researchers are focusing on vulnerabilities in cell phones, but manufacturers and carriers are still stuck in the 90s.

• News: Google's Andy Rubin tells Android critics to chill

  Android pioneer Andy Rubin has a message from developers carping about Android fragmentation: You all need to calm down.

• News: Verizon, AT&T 'pleased' with Xoom, Atrix sales, despite analyst concerns

  Several analysts have described disappointing early sales for Motorola's Xoom tablet and Atrix smartphone, both based on the Android operating system.

• News: Microsoft releases Bing for iPad app

  “Just Bing it” may have failed to catch on with the public’s search vernacular to date, but Microsoft’s most recent attempt to bring its search engine to the masses has culminated in the release Bing for iPad.

• News: Canadian carrier to start LTE service in 2012

  Canada's third biggest wireless carrier has become the first of the country's operators to promise it will deploy LTE service.

• News: Chrome to flag dangerous Windows downloads

  Google has revealed it will add malware download warnings to its Chrome browser.

• News: Geek Alert: UltraCompare Compares Files and Directories

  It even does three ways! Now that I've raised our Google rank by an order of magnitude, it's time to further discuss UltraCompare 8.0 ($50, 30-day free trial), the latest version of the powerful file and folder comparison tool. IDM Computer Solutions has found a good niche for itself producing ever more feature-rich tools aimed primarily at programmers and network administrators, and UltraCompare 8.0 continues this tradition.

• News: Clorox cleans out BlackBerries in favor of iPhones, Android devices

  While IT managers are finding it nearly impossible to say no to employees who want to use smart phones and tablets in the workplace, they're also faced with securing the devices, which often means locking applications down and monitoring them through a company server.

• News: EMC's 'big data' efforts gain momentum

  New appliances, partnership with SAS give a boost to EMC's data warehousing push, analysts say.

• News: Nokia offering new SDK for Qt

  Developers who want to take advantage of Nokia's cross-platform application and user interface framework can now access the latest release candidate.

• News: Ubuntu developer prefers netbooks to tablets

  Canonical has not yet built an Ubuntu Linux distribution for tablets and will continue development of the OS for PCs and netbooks, company executives said.

• News: Judge in Oracle-Google case gets a lesson in Java

  Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave the judge overseeing their Java patent dispute a tutorial on Wednesday that underscored the complexity of the case between the two companies.

• News: British software firm wins Microsoft security award

  Altran Praxis, a specialist in embedded and critical systems engineering, has been named the inaugural winner of the Microsoft Research Verified Software Milestone Award.

• 06 April 2011

• News: Microsoft advises against homebrew update WP7 tool

  Microsoft is advising people not to use an unauthorized tool for downloading two software updates to Windows Phone 7 devices.

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