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• 18 November 2009

• News: Google to spill beans on Chrome operating system

  Google is getting ready to shed a little more light on its Chrome OS, with a press event scheduled for Thursday

• News: Microsoft's Windows Azure to launch in January

  Microsoft is set to move its Windows Azure cloud platform to a production stage, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, said on Tuesday.

• 17 November 2009

• News: Fake Facebook page steals login details

  A fake Facebook page which is designed to steal social networkers login details has been uncovered by PandaLabs.

• News: Adobe upgrades Flash Player and AIR

  Adobe has made beta versions of upgrades to its Flash Player and Adobe AIR technology, available.

• News: Orange users can update Twitter from handsets

  Orange is giving its customers the ability to update their Twitter profile using text messaging.

• News: Email to become extinct in 10 years?

  Email could die-out in the next ten years in favour of instant messaging, says TalkTalk.

• News: Microsoft open-sources .Net Framework

  Microsoft announced yesterday the release and open-sourcing of its .Net Micro Framework 4.0, which provides a .Net-based development and execution environment for small devices. But the TCP/IP stack and cryptography stack were omitted from the open source effort.

• News: Office 2010 hits TechNet and MSDN

  Microsoft has made the beta version of Office 2010 available to its developer and IT subscription sites today.

• News: IBM: how to hack Twitter using SSL flaw

  An IBM researcher has shown how to hack Twitter using a previously disclosed bug in SSL.

• News: Microsoft convicted of violating Windows font licences

  A Beijing court has ruled that Microsoft violated a Chinese company's intellectual property rights in a case over fonts used in past Windows operating systems, state media said Tuesday.

• News: Google Sites website-building app gets templates

  Google Sites, the wiki-based hosted application for building group websites, is gaining its first wave of templates with a set for workplaces and a set for personal use.

• News: Microsoft makes apps available to older phones

  Microsoft is making its Windows Marketplace for Mobile available to phones running older versions of its mobile software, although not all of the apps may be available to all Windows Mobile users.

• News: Microsoft's Paul Allen diagnosed with lymphoma

  Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, who left the company in the 80s after contracting Hodgkin's disease, has been diagnosed with lymphoma.

• 16 November 2009

• News: Windows 7 desktops to host third-party advertising

  Microsoft today announced that it would sell Windows 7 desktop real estate to advertisers and launched a pilot program that includes Coke, Infiniti and Porsche.

• News: Microsoft reveals Windows 7 zero-day threat

  Microsoft has confirmed that an unpatched vulnerability exists in Windows 7, and has advised users protect their PCs by blocking ports until a patch is ready

• 14 November 2009

• News: Cloud computing: Why we hate it, why we need it

  The industry's chieftans express disenchantment with 'the cloud', but the services keep coming. We look at why we hate cloud computing, but why we need it too.

• News: 3 quick ways to fine-tune Windows 7

  You've taken the plunge and installed Windows 7. We've rounded these apps and tips that will help you fine tune the OS so it runs just the way you want it to.

• News: Google Dashboard: it's great, but what is it?

  Google recently unveiled Dashboard, a new tool that gives users the ability to control the personal settings in each Google product that they use from one page.

• News: 9 iPhone apps that will suit your hobbies

  Grilling. Bird watching. Shopping. Whatever you do in your free time, there's an app for that. Here's a look at nine intriguing options to help you recharge.

• 13 November 2009

• News: Microsoft starts recruiting for Windows 8

  Microsoft is currently looking for employees to help shape Windows 8, despite the fact Windows 7 has only just launched.

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