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• 15 September 2009

• 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.

• News: Microsoft: Windows 7 upgrades to take 20 hours

  Some "in-place" upgrades from Windows Vista to the new Windows 7 may take users over 20 hours to complete, according to Microsoft.

• News: Novell tool means more enterprise apps for iPhone

  A new developer tool from Novell will mean that the Apple iPhone gets more applications for enterprise users.

• 12 September 2009

• News: XP or Vista? Stats show what users really want

  Think you know what Windows users want and use their PC for? Think again. We use a new tool to investigate just what PC's in the real-world are used for.

• News: The 7 best ways to back up your PC

  Nobody likes backing up, but one day it'll save your bacon. Here are the seven most efficient methods of protecting your data, no matter what your situation.

• 11 September 2009

• News: Microsoft forms new open-source foundation

  Microsoft has founded and is providing the funding for a new foundation aimed at bringing open-source and proprietary software companies together to participate side by side in open-source projects.

• 09 September 2009

• News: Russia drops Windows XP antimonopoly case

  Russia has dropped an antimonopoly case against Microsoft that was brought over the company's decision to withdraw its XP OS from the market.

• 04 September 2009

• News: Mobile cloud subscribers to number 1 billion by 2014

  The number of mobile cloud computing subscribers worldwide will grow rapidly over the next five years, rising from 42.8 million subscribers in 2008, to just over 998 million in 2014.

• News: EU to probe Oracle-Sun deal further

  Oracle's planned takeover of Sun Microsystems will be subject to a deeper investigation by the European Commission, following "serious concerns" over the effect of the merger on competition.

• News: Five 'critical' Windows fixes coming next week

  Microsoft today said it will deliver five security updates on Tuesday, all affecting Windows and all ranked "critical," the company's highest threat rating.

• News: Throw a party and get Windows 7 Ultimate free

  A new version of Windows is not typically a reason to throw a party, but Microsoft is hoping people will do just that to celebrate Windows 7, and has teamed with House Party to help them do so.

• News: Microsoft allowed to continue selling Word, for now

  A federal appeals court late today granted Microsoft's request to suspend an injunction that would have barred the company from selling its Word software next month.

• 02 September 2009

• News: Tutorial: Build your own website

  Creating a website used to be a pretty scary task, only to be approached by those with an in-depth knowledge of HTML and a creative mind. These days, a number of companies offer online services that help you to easily design and produce your own website, and many will even host it for you, too. Here, we demonstrate the process using Moonfruit.

• News: Manga Studio tutorial: Life in cartoon motion

  We don't believe drawing on a PC should be limited to dull presentations. Here, we show you how to create your very own comic strip using Manga Studio Debut 4.0.

• News: Users finally ditching XP for Vista & Windows 7

  Windows XP's share of the operating system recorded a record fall in August

• News: Windows 7 Embedded OS released to testers

  Microsoft on Tuesday released a test preview of its Windows 7-based OS for embedded devices.

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