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• 13 July 2010

• News: Geolocation causes Brits to worry about personal security

  Nearly two in five (39 percent) of Brits use geolocation tools on their mobile phone, says Webroot

• News: Windows XP downgrade deadline extended to 2020

  Microsoft has announced that people running some versions of Windows 7 can "downgrade" to Windows XP for up to 10 years

• News: Survey: Windows 7 getting popular with developers

  Apps builders like touch and multi-touch capabilities but are challenged by supporting older versions of the OS

• News: Third-party software bugs surge in 2010

  A surge in third-party software vulnerabilities accounted for the bulk of a ballooning bug count in the first half of 2010, said Danish security firm Secunia today.

• 12 July 2010

• News: Spotify launches Linux app

  Online music streaming provider Spotify has announced a native application for Linux operating systems. This is the first time Spotify has released a Linux client, although some users have previously reported being able to install the Windows application using the Wine emulation environment.

• News: Final Patch Tuesday for Windows 2000 and XP

  Microsoft's next security update, which is due this week, marks the end of Microsoft support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2.

• News: Chinese Google search site offers limited features

  Google's recent restoration of Google.cn may have helped the company secure a renewal of its Internet Content Provider (ICP) licence in China, but the search site provides precious few search services to users.

• News: Google apologises for Orkut bugs

  Google's Orkut social-networking site has been beset with bugs lately, leading the company to apologise for spotty service.

• News: Facebook agrees to install 'panic button'

  Facebook has revealed it will install an app on the social network that allows web users to access the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) reporting centre as well as advice on staying safe online.

• News: Google launches Google App Inventor for Android

  Google today revealed a software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software.

• 09 July 2010

• News: Google reinstates Street View Cars

  Google has reinstated its Street View cars following the admission they had mistakenly collected Wi-Fi data when in use.

• News: Upgrade from Windows XP SP2 & Vista SP1 now

  The key to trouble-free computing is to keep it up to date and keep it ticking over. Rosemary Hattersley introduces two useful maintenance tools

• 08 July 2010

• News: Microsoft hit by three more zero-day flaws

  Microsoft has been served notice of at least three new zero-day vulnerabilities in some of its most important software , in the last few weeks.

• News: Twitter restricts access to third-party apps

  Twitter is helping to combat outages by restricting the number of times third party apps such as TweetDeck and Echofon can access the service.

• News: Free antivirus accounts for 42% of market

  Free antivirus rules, according to a new study that reports 42% of the security software market is composed of free products

• 07 July 2010

• News: Mozilla unveils beta version of Firefox 4

  Mozilla has made the beta version of its latest web browser, Firefox 4, available to web users.

• News: AlertMe iPhone app monitors home energy consumption

  AlertMe, the home energy measurement service, has unveiled an iPhone app that allows consumers using its Smart Energy meter to monitor their home energy use from their handset.

• News: 15 percent of XP users risk security blackout

  As July 13 approaches, when Microsoft will end support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and users will no longer receive critical security updates, a PC Advisor poll has found that 15.1 percent of XP users are still using SP2 or earlier.

• 06 July 2010

• News: A third of PC users still run Windows XP

  More than a third (37 percent) of respondents to a PC Advisor poll said they continue to use Windows XP, turning their noses up at Microsoft's more recent Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.

• News: Researchers publish info about Windows Vista flaw

  A group of security researchers last week published information about a flaw in Windows Vista and Server 2008, in revenge for the way Microsoft treated a colleague.

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