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Article | 21/07/2010 Canonical bundles Linux, IBM database for the cloud
Canonical is offering enterprises a chance to try cloud computing via a virtual appliance that bundles Ubuntu Linux with the IBM DB2 Express-C databas...
Article | 28/07/2010 AT&T to be 'premier' Windows Phone 7 vendor
Say all you want about whether Windows Phone 7 (WP7) will succeed, but AT&T continues to back the platform wholeheartedly after endorsing it -- an...
Article | 24/07/2010 Tech worker testifies of 'blue screen of death' on oil rig's computer
A computer that monitored drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon had been freezing with a "blue screen of death" prior to the explosion that san...
Article | 24/07/2010 Microsoft: Solid Today, Shaky Tomorrow
Microsoft's quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday painted a rosy picture of a healthy and vibrant tech company. Revenue from Windows sales jump...
Article | 24/07/2010 Microsoft sells 10 Windows 7 licenses per second
Microsoft sold nearly 10 copies of Windows 7 every second over the last month, according to numbers the company released Thursday.
Article | 23/07/2010 Drop 'responsible' from bug disclosures, Microsoft urges
Microsoft today pitched its own proposal for how software makers react to bugs reported by researchers, calling for a name change to describe the proc...
Article | 23/07/2010 5 makers for Windows Phone 7 now official
Microsoft has officially divulged names of at least five manufacturers for its coming Windows Phone 7 devices, with Asus recently added to a list of f...
Article | 23/07/2010 Dell revamps hardware testing in wake of malware issue
A sequence of errors led to Dell's delivery of motherboards with malware and the company is in the process of overhauling its testing process to resol...
Article | 22/07/2010 Microsoft warns of Windows shortcut drive-by attacks
Microsoft on Tuesday said that hackers could exploit the unpatched Windows shortcut vulnerability using drive-by download attacks that would trigger a...
Article | 22/07/2010 Microsoft's Q4 Earnings: Seven Facts Likely to Be Spun
Microsoft will announce its fiscal 2010 earnings Thursday afternoon, and the pressure is on Redmond to deliver big numbers now that PCs sales have jum...
Article | 21/07/2010 Mac, iPad sales push Apple to record revenue
For the third time in the last four quarters, Apple today reported it sold a record number of Macs, although sales of the iPhone slipped slightly.
Article | 21/07/2010 Microsoft may face tough patch job with Windows shortcut bug
Microsoft may have a tough time fixing the Windows shortcut vulnerability, a security researcher said today.
Article | 20/07/2010 Experts predict extensive attacks of Windows zero-day
Security organizations today raised Internet threat levels to warn users that they expect widespread attacks using exploits of a just-acknowledged cri...
Article | 18/07/2010 Microsoft confirms 'nasty' Windows zero-day bug
Microsoft on Friday warned that attackers are exploiting a critical unpatched Windows vulnerability using infected USB flash drives.
Article | 19/07/2010 Poll: Many enterprises still on out-of-service XP SP2
A surprising percentage of organizations are still running desktops with the XP Service Pack 2 OS, which Microsoft said it would no longer patch as of...