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• 17 September 2009

• News: Microsoft: Windows Vista a 'less good product'

  A Microsoft executive yesterday stoked up excitement for Windows 7 by describing its predecessor, Windows Vista, a "less good product."

• 16 September 2009

• News: Google launches SDK for latest Android build

  Developers can now start working with the software development kit (SDK) for version 1.6 of Google's mobile operating system Android, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

• News: Motorola: Nokia-Microsoft won't end Windows Mobile

  Motorola has denied that Nokia's joint venture with Microsoft will not spell the end for handsets running Windows Mobile.

• News: MySpace opens Qizmt tech to recommend friends

  MySpace yesterday released as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site.

• News: Adobe buys web analyst Omniture for $1.8bn

  Adobe is set to inject web analytics technology into Adobe's content creation tools after it agreed to buy web analytics company Omniture for $1.8bn in cash, the companies said Tuesday.

• News: Google Chrome 3.0 launches: faster, more features

  Google yesterday launched version 3 of its Chrome web browser. Google Chrome 3.0 keeps the pressure on competing tools by boosting JavaScript performance by 25 percent versus the latest stable release.

• News: Facebook passes 300 million users, makes money

  Facebook has more tham 300 million membes. The company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, also announced yesterday that Facebook has turned free cash-flow positive ahead of schedule.

• News: AOL to launch AIM 7 for Twitter, Facebook

  AOL is set to launch AIM 7 early next week. The 'most significant' update of its instant-messaging client will allow AIM users to post to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Delicious and Digg.

• News: Opera Mini 5 mobile web browser released

  Opera has made its latest mobile web browser, Opera Mini 5, publicly available.

• 15 September 2009

• News: Hackers capitalise on Patrick Swayze death

  Hackers are already capitalising on the death of Dirty Dancing legend Patrick Swayze with fake web pages claiming to offer information about the actor's death, says Sophos.

• News: Batman 'glide' disabled in anti-piracy measure

  Gamers that have illegally downloaded copies of the new Batman game will find they are unable to make the character 'glide' as part of a new anti-piracy measure.

• News: The Google Data Liberation Front explained

  Google has unveiled the 'Data Liberation Front' - a project that aims to let web users import and export personal information from Google's online services without a hassle.

• News: Microsoft gives Bing visual search

  Microsoft has improved its Bing search engine with Visual Search. which it hopes will rival Google when it comes to searching the web for images.

• News: Microsoft patches XP and Vista Conficker holes

  Four months after it modified Windows 7 to stop the Conficker worm from spreading through infected flash drives, Microsoft has ported the changes to older operating systems, including Windows XP and Vista, the company announced late last week.

• News: Google Fast Flip aims to boost news browsing

  Google aims to make it simpler and faster to browse through news articles on the web with a new product called Fast Flip.

• News: New York Times explains hoax antivirus ads

  Staff at the New York Times have explained how the title came to serve pop-up ads for fake antivirus tools - as PC Advisor reported yesterday.

• 14 September 2009

• News: 'Non-delivery report' spam surges

  Non delivery report (NDR) spam has increased by 2000 percent in August since June this year, says PandaLabs.

• News: Samsung launches UK mobile app store

  Samsung has launched an online app store for mobile phones in the UK.

• News: Google Sony deal will improve Chrome market share

  Google's deal with Sony that will see its Chrome Browser installed on all new Vaio laptops in the US could help the browser increase its market share, say analysts.

• News: 'Chinese eBay' aims for global domination

  The company known as "China's eBay" will aim for expansion abroad in the long term, but first it wants more foreign products sold on its platform in China, it said Saturday.

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