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• 01 October 2010

• News: Microsoft launches Windows Live 11

  Microsoft has made another case for upgrading to Windows 7: The company has released the latest version of its free downloadable collection of software and enhancements for the consumer editions of Windows.

• News: Microsoft Security Essentials now on 31m PCs

  Microsoft's free antivirus software, Security Essentials, has been installed on 31 million PCs in its first year.

• 30 September 2010

• News: Mozilla confirm Firefox won't be coming to the iPhone

  Mozilla has once again rejected the idea of developing a version of Firefox for the iPhone, saying that it is instead focusing its iOS efforts on the Firefox Home sync software.

• News: Research reveals many free Android apps leak personal data

  New software design to analyse how Android app user personal data revealed that 15 out of 30 free Android Market applications sent users' private information to remote advertising servers, without the user's knowledge.

• News: Mobile web page views up 14 percent

  The number of web page viewed from mobile phone has surged by 14 percent, says Opera.

• 29 September 2010

• News: Geomium lets you locate nearby resturants, deals and offers

  A new location-based service that lets web and iPhone users find events restaurants along with vouchers and deals has been launched.

• News: OpenOffice ditches Oracle to form LibreOffice

  Developers of the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite have announced a break from Oracle, introducing a new name for the project and establishing a new foundation to guide its future

• 28 September 2010

• News: Microsoft to rush out fix for ASP.net bug

  Microsoft is rushing out a fix for a Windows Web Server flaw that is starting to be exploited by online attackers.

• News: Developers favour Google Android over Apple iOS

  A majority of mobile application developers see Google's Android as the smart bet over the long run even as they vote for Apple's iOS in the short term, according to a survey published Monday.

• News: Google adds OAuth support to Google Apps

  Google Apps APIs can now be accessed by the emerging OAuth authentication protocol

• News: Iran: 'Stuxnet worm infected PCs at nuclear reactor'

  Although some computers at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor were infected by the Stuxnet worm, none of the facility's crucial control systems were affected, Iranian officials said.

• News: Flickr.com unblocked in UAE

  Yahoo!, owner of Flickr.com, today confirmed that U.A.E. authorities have agreed to unblock all of the photo-sharing web site except Flickr Groups.

• News: Cisco, EMC and VMware help Orange build private clouds

  Orange Business Services has formed an alliance with Cisco, EMC and VMware to help enterprises adopt private clouds, the company said on Monday.

• 27 September 2010

• News: Windows Phone 7 to hit UK on October 21

  Smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 are set to hit the UK on October 21.

• News: Microsoft backtracks on IE9's need for Windows 7 SP1

  Microsoft has backtracked on its decision that requires a yet-to-be-released update to Windows 7 to be installed to use the final version of Internet Explorer 9.

• News: Windows Phone 7 handsets won't support tethering

  Microsoft has confirmed that smartphones running th forthcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system will not support tethering.

• News: Google takes Chrome Frame out of beta

  Google has taken the beta tag off Chrome Frame, which Google says will let users "access modern web technologies like HTML5 on legacy browsers" – namely, Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8.

• News: FaceTime in UAE on iPhone 4 killed by iOS 4.1 update

  At the end of thefirst day of iPhone 4 officially going on sale in the U.A.E. it seems like the update of iOS to 4.1 is what is disabling FaceTime on iPhones in the country.

• News: Facebook launches page browser feature

  We can browse in bookstores. We can browse the web. And now we can browser Facebook.

• News: Iran attacked by massive Stuxnet infection

  Officials in Iran have confirmed that the Stuxnet worm infected at least 30,000 Windows PCs in the country, multiple Iranian news services reported on Saturday.

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