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Microsoft to Fix Windows, Office Bugs in Critical Updates

Microsoft has nine security bulletins planned for the Aug. 11 Patch Tuesday release, including one addressing a critical vulnerability Microsoft warned was under attack.Tucked...

Row 44 Wins Approval for Airline Wi-Fi

After a longer than expected approval process, Row 44 said Aug. 6 the Federal Communications Commission has approved the company's satellite-based in-flight Wi-Fi for...

Facebook Generation Carries Social Software in the Enterprise

Despite hype surrounding the use of wikis, blogs, social networks and other tools in the workplace, social software in businesses is still more of...

10 Microsoft Applications That Bit the Dust (or Soon Will)

10 Microsoft Applications That Bit the Dust (or Soon Will) by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: EncartaStatus: Discontinued Originally launched in 1993, the first version of Encarta incorporated the...

Microsoft Files Trademark Application for Retail Store Logo

Microsoft on July 28 filed a logo for its chain of retail stores with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The logo has...

New Intel SDK Aids Media Application Developers

Intel made a bunch of announcements at the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) show, including...

Mac OS X’s Reputation for Security Wearing Thin

Mac OS X is considered by some to be an extremely secure operating system. Those people claim that thanks to its many security features,...

Does Google Want On2 for a Gaming Console?

The blogosphere abounds with questions about Google's Aug. 5 purchase, a $106.5 million stock bid for video compression software maker On2 Technologies. The leading...

GPS, Wi-Fi Are Hot Commodities in the Smartphone Market

In the smartphone world, GPS and Wi-Fi are hot, and rich Internet application and widget frameworks are not, says a new study from researcher...

Sony Unveils Party-Shot Accessory, CMOS Sensor Cameras

Consumer electronics giant Sony announced this week a digital camera accessory-the model IPT-DS1, a camera dock featuring Party-shot technology-and the first two digital cameras...