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• 17 September 2010

• News: Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7 developer tools

  Microsoft today released the final version of Windows Phone 7 developer tools, opening the way to what the company hopes will be flood of applications for the revamped smartphone platform. At the same time, Microsoft is becoming more visible in what promises to be a huge marketing effort to generate consumer excitement for the October 11 launch of Windows Phone handsets.

• News: The history of Apple Mac OS X

  Ten years after its beta debuted, we look at where the ultra-successful Apple Mac OS X operating system came from.

• 16 September 2010

• News: More than a quarter of UK software is unlicensed or pirated

  More than two in five computer programs in use around the world are unlicenced or pirated, says IDC.

• News: Twitter's new homepage: what the critics said

  Twitter's update to its homepage, that stresses community and multimedia content, is a welcome change to the staid site. Of course, when you impose order and elegance to Twitter's current lackluster homepage, you're going to get more kudos than questions. Still, you'll be hard pressed to find a dissonant voice in the chorus of opinion about the redesign of world's favorite micro-blogging site.

• News: Halo: Reach makes $200 million in first-day sales

  Halo: Reach tallied $200 million in sales on its release day, says Phil Spencer, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, during Microsoft's keynote Thursday morning at the Tokyo Game Show as reported by 1UP.com's liveblog of the event.

• News: Study: In-game ads may work

  For the first time, a recent study of EA Games shows proof that advertisers may actually benefit from something many gamers hate: in-game advertising.

• News: Apple patches QuickTime bugs reported in June

  Apple patched a critical vulnerability in QuickTime on Wednesday that was reported to the company by a bug bounty program months ago.

• News: Internet Explorer 9 UI vs Chrome, Firefox

  Internet Explorer 9's beta release is the first public appearance for the aging browser after a major facelift, and boy, is the change dramatic.

• News: Diaspora source code released to take on Facebook

  Diaspora -- a distributed social-networking project inspired by user anger at Facebook's privacy policy changes -- today announced the public release of its source code to developers.

• News: Google Android bigger than Windows Mobile

  Google's Android has blown by Microsoft's Windows Mobile to rank third among smartphone operating systems, according to ComScore's latest numbers.

• 15 September 2010

• News: Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9 beta

  Microsoft has unveiled the beta version of its latest web browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).

• News: Google boosts Chrome browser to chase IE9

  Google Chrome engineers are making up for Microsoft Explorer's recent gains in hardware-assisted acceleration

• News: Mozilla halts Firefox security updates

  Mozilla has halted security updates to Firefox users as it investigates a bug that caused computers to crash last week.

• 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.

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