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• 26 July 2010

• News: ProcessOne launches instant messaging for business

  ProcessOne has released a new messaging service that gives small businesses their own instant messaging capability using their domain name.

• 23 July 2010

• News: Microsoft will not offer rewards for identifying bugs in IE

  Microsoft has no plans to follow in Mozilla and Google's footsteps and offer security researchers rewards for identify bugs in its software.

• News: Microsoft licences ARM architecture

  Microsoft and ARM have signed a new deal that will see the technology giant licence the ARM architecture.

• News: MySpace loses 49% of visitors in 12 months

  MySpace has almost half as many visitors as it did last year, says ComScore.

• News: Google: 'Java too complicated'

  Today's commercial-grade programming languages - C++ and Java, in particular - are way too complex and not adequately suited for today's computing environments, Google distinguished engineer Rob Pike argued in a talk Thursday at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference.

• News: New Google Chrome every six weeks

  Google on Thursday said it will pick up Google Chrome's release pace by issuing a new version of the browser about every six weeks. According to Anthony Laforge, a Chrome program manager, the new schedule will put a a new "stable" version of the browser in users' hands roughly twice often as in the past. The picked-up pace will debut over the next few months.

• News: Microsoft profits up via sales of Office 2010, Windows 7

  The release of Office 2010, as well as continued strong sales of Windows 7, helped buoy Microsoft through another quarter of increased revenue and profit, the company announced on Thursday.

• News: Windows flaw exploited by malware writers

  The Windows attack used by a recently discovered worm is being picked up by other virus writers and will soon become much more widespread, according to security vendor Eset.

• News: 8 amazing things Windows 8 will do

  PC users have been speculating on the features that might be offered by Windows 8 for some time. However, thanks to Microsoft planning documents shared with HP and other OEM partners that were leaked online recently, we've been to take a wholly unexpected sneak peak at Windows 8.

• 22 July 2010

• News: 55% of Google Android smartphones use version 2.1

  More than half (55 per cent) of all Google Android smartphones use 'Éclair' or version 2.1 of the mobile phone OS.

• News: Mobile app downloads to surge by 2015

  Mobile app downloads are expected to surge by 2015, says Juniper Research.

• Video: Flipboard creates 'social media magazine' for iPad

  Free iPad app presents Twitter and Facebook links

• News: Microsoft makes new Security Essentials beta available

  Microsoft has released a beta for the next version of its free security software, Security Essentials.

• News: Mozilla patches flaws in Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

  Mozilla has patched 16 vulnerabilities, nine of them critical, in its Firefox 3.6 web browser, making it the largest update for the open-source browser since March.

• News: Microsoft issues tool to stop Windows Shortcut attacks

  Microsoft has released an automated tool to stop exploits of a critical unpatched Windows vulnerability that experts fear will soon be exploited by hackers.

• News: RIM shows off BlackBerry 6 OS - details

  Research In Motion has been slowly releasing details of its forthcoming BlackBerry 6 operating system and this week outlined some of the multimedia features.

• News: 'Chinese Google' enjoys record profits

  Internet searches surged during the World Cup, helping Baidu.com score its best quarter ever in terms of revenue and net profit.

• News: Terabyte-sized Java apps now possible

  The new version of the Terracotta distributed Java caching software is able, for the first time, to aggregate more than a terabyte of pooled memory for a single application and its data, the company announced this week.

• 21 July 2010

• News: Adobe brings 'Sandboxing' to Reader

  Adobe will harden the next version of its popular Reader PDF viewer, a frequent target of attacks, by adding 'sandboxing' technology to the software.

• News: Eight products Microsoft has killed in 2010

  Microsoft recently withdrew support and patches for Windows XP SP2, marking the latest in a series of moves by the company to kill off products and technologies that either outlived their uselessness or never became useful in the first place

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