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- 22 September 2010
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News: Twitter bug was already 'fixed' in August
A serious bug that led to a series of fast-spreading worms on Twitter's website Tuesday had been fixed in August but was accidentally re-introduced.
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News: Director Christopher Nolan considers Inception video game
Director Christopher Nolan revealed Inception video game ideas today at a press event for the movie's release in Italy, covered by film industry publication, Variety.
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News: Oracle gets onboard the cloud revolution
What a difference a year makes. Last September, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison launched into a tirade about the "nonsense" that cloud computing had become. The industry had gone haywire, he said, and slapped the buzzword on technologies that weren't really new at all.
- 21 September 2010
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News: Twitter hack sees third-party websites opened without clicking links
Hackers have exploited a flaw in Twitter, which results in pop-ups and third-party websites being opened despite users simply hovering over links with their mouse.
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News: 23% of university students have hacked into an IT system
Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of university students have successfully hacked into IT system, says Tufin Technologies.
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News: Adobe launches Photoshop, Premiere Elements 9
Adobe on Monday announced the latest version of Photoshop Elements 9, the company's consumer-level photo editing application, for both Mac and Windows. There are a number of features in this version that are new to Mac users, most notably the bundled Elements Organizer, which acts as a hub for importing, managing, and viewing photo and video files.
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News: Google to offer Google Docs editing for Apple iPad
Google said on Monday that Apple iPad owners would soon be able to edit Google Docs files on their tablets.
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News: iPhone, iPod Touch can now access enterprise networks
iPhone and iPod Touch users can now remotely access their enterprise networks by using a new app available on the Apple App Store, according to networking solutions firm Juniper Networks.
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News: Microsoft new HPC Server adds SETI-like capabilities
Microsoft today released an updated version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 that can tap into compute resources throughout an enterprise as well as a cloud computing system.
- 20 September 2010
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News: Adobe moves up Flash fix, patches bug today
Adobe accelerated the delivery of a patch for a critical vulnerability in Flash and will ship the fix today, rather than next week as originally scheduled.
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News: Google demos editing of Google Docs in Microsoft Office
Google is developing a way for Microsoft Office users to edit documents collaboratively without using Microsoft's Sharepoint collaboration server. It also has plans to extend the ability to edit Google Docs documents to mobile phones and iPads too.
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News: Google improves sign-in security for Apps
Google has boosted security for users of its hosted Google Apps tools by adding a new two-step verification process.
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News: We7 offers two-week free trial of Android app
We7 has made the full version of its music-sharing app available to smartphones running Google Android.
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News: Classic gaming service Good Old Games shuts down
Classic PC gaming service Good Old Games has shut down. In a statement on its website, the operators said after long consideration, the digital-rights-free download service concluded it could no longer operate the site in its current form.
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News: Oracle plans Q1 2011 release for Fusion Apps
The first release of Oracle's long-awaited, next-generation Fusion Applications will be generally available in the first quarter of 2011, CEO Larry Ellison said during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Sunday.
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News: HP readying private cloud systems for Oracle apps
Amid tensions over ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd's move to Oracle, HP will announce a new series of systems on Sunday for running Oracle applications on a private cloud.
- 17 September 2010
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News: Adobe warns Acrobat users over third-party security patch
After warning users earlier this week of a potential security risk in their popular Acrobat PDF software, Adobe is now cautioning users against installing a third-party patch that claims to address the issue. The vulnerability, detailed on Adobe's site, affects all versions of Adobe Acrobat and Reader for various OSes, including Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Android.
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News: Facebook Places launched in the UK
Facebook Places, the social network's smartphone location-sharing service launched last month, has been made available in the UK.
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News: Google patches Google Chrome browser... again
Google patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome this week, including one pegged critical on the Mac.
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News: Top 10 hot topics at Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle's annual OpenWorld conference kicks off Sunday and is set to be the biggest one yet, both in attendance and information on future technologies that could have a major influence across the tech world. Here's a look at some of the hottest topics and happenings at the event, which runs through next Thursday in San Francisco.
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