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• 23 September 2010

• News: iWork for iPad adds file transfer, better Office support

  Apple on Wednesday released updates to its three iWork apps for the iPad. Version 1.2 of Numbers, Keynote, and Pages feature improvements to file-format support and file transferring, adding the ability to transfer files to and from remote servers and enhancing support for exporting files in Microsoft Office-compatible file formats.

• News: Apple releases 27-inch LED Display, Magic Trackpad updates

  Apple on Wednesday released a couple of minor software updates to support its new 27-inch LED Cinema Display on both Mac OS X and Windows. The Windows update also includes support for the Magic Trackpad input device.

• News: Facebook fixes glitch, says access back to normal

  A problem that affected account access for some Facebook users on Wednesday have been fixed, Facebook said via its Twitter feed.

• News: HP launches 'industry first' private cloud service

  Tech giant HP has launched a new service which it claims is an all-in-one solution for deploying "an open and flexible private cloud computing environment within 30 days".

• 22 September 2010

• News: Windows Phone 7 phones coming to 3, Orange, O2, T-mobile, Vodafone

  The UK's five biggest mobile networks: 3, Orange, O2, T-mobile and Vodafone, will all stock handsets running Microsoft Windows Phone 7.

• News: Opera Turbo compression technology used by 5.2 million

  More than 5.2 million web users made use of compression technology when surfing the web, says Opera.

• News: Samsung confirms display issues with apps on Galaxy Tab

  Samsung has confirmed some Android Market apps on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab will run at a smaller resolution than the 7in screen allows.

• News: Internet Explorer 9 downloaded 2 million times in two days

  Microsoft yesterday announced that users had downloaded more than two million copies of its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) beta in the two days after its Sept. 15 launch.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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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