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• 02 January 2010

• News: Google Chrome overtakes Apple Safari

  Google's Chrome overtook Apple's Safari to become the world's third-most popular browser just 16 months after its debut.

• 31 December 2009

• News: Google Chrome OS 2010 security alert

  Chrome OS will be targeted by attackers, probably even before it's officially released, said Sam Masiello, the director of threat management at antivirus vendor McAfee.

• 28 December 2009

• News: Psystar dodges Apple legal with Linux ploy

  Mac clone maker Psystar last week indefinitely suspended sales of its only product, a $50 utility that lets customers install Apple's Snow Leopard operating system on generic Intel-based computers.

• News: Toshiba develops mobile translation system

  Toshiba has developed a trilingual translation system with voice recognition and synthesis that's compact and light enough to be installed in a mobile phone.

• 24 December 2009

• News: Oracle sued over technology used to build Fusion Applications

  Oracle is being sued for fraud and copyright infringement, after MB Technologies claimed the vendor is unlawfully using the its technology to build user interfaces associated with Fusion Applications.

• News: Microsoft strips XML technology from Word 2007

  Microsoft has revealed it already has a patch available that strips out XML technology the company has been barred from using after January 11, in Word 2007 and Office 2007.

• 23 December 2009

• News: Microsoft forced to kill Word 2007 feature

  Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling its popular Word software in less than three weeks, after a court rejected the company's appeal.

• 21 December 2009

• Video: 2009 year in review: Microsoft

  2009 was a big year for Microsoft. Bill Gates passed the baton on to CEO Steve Ballmer, the company launched a new OS and search engine and updated its gaming hardware, among other announcements this year. But by far the biggest news for the company this year was the launch of Windows 7. The buzz spanned most of the year, from when we got a look at it in January to when Microsoft shipped it out in October.

• News: Product Of The Year 2009: Windows 7

  PC Advisor has announced that its Product Of The Year for 2009 is Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system

• 18 December 2009

• News: Google Fast Flip adds more than 50 publications

  Goggle has added more than newspapers, magazines, websites and TV stations to Fast Flip, the service that allows users to preview or 'flip' through news stories. Google Fast Flip was introduced in September and can currently be found in the Google Labs beta site.

• News: Twitter down after Iranian Cyber Army attack

  Twitter was this morning hacked by a group calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army.

• News: Google snapshot reveals secrets of Android's success

  Google has released a snapshot that shows the percentages of phones running the different versions of Google Android software.

• News: The 10 most popular product reviews of 2009

  With more than 4,000 reviews online, literally millions of people visit PCAdvisor.co.uk each month to get expert, impartial advice. But which products do people want to read about the most? Here are PC Advisor's 10 biggest reviews of the year.

• News: Facebook fights back after EPIC privacy complaint

  Facebook is fighting back after a high-profile electronic privacy group filed a federal complaint against Facebook on Thursday.

• News: Researcher develops free BlackBerry antimalware app

  A security researcher in Asia has created Kisses, a free software application that removes spyware from BlackBerry phones.

• News: Analysis: Google to launch netbook and smartphone

  There may still be ongoing debate about whether the Nexus One smartphone will be supplied direct from Google, but that hasn't stopped experts from moving on to a new rumour that Google is also developing a Google-branded netbook.

• News: Palm opens WebOS developer program to boost sales

  Palm posted another loss for the period ending in November but has plans for boosting its prospects.

• News: Dell offers cheap Linux-based quick-boot system

  Dell is offering as an option for some laptops a memory module called Latitude On Flash that can boot up a computer in seconds. The module is available alongside the option of an existing quick-boot system that uses an Arm processor.

• 17 December 2009

• News: BE broadband provides free broadband to 46 groups

  Public Wi-Fi network Freerunner is to offer a number of communities across the UK free wireless broadband services.

• News: YouTube to charge for TV series and films?

  In an attempt to get mainstream TV and film makers to submit content to YouTube, site owner Google is considering a subscription service for the video-sharing website.

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