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Mozilla patches 10 security bugs with Firefox 3.5.6
Mozilla patched 10 bugs in Firefox, half of them critical, in the browser’s rendering and JavaScript engines, media and video libraries, and...
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AMD’s lead with DirectX 11 is ‘insignificant,’ Nvidia says
Nvidia brushed off the technology lead that rival Advanced Micro Devices built by releasing the first graphics chips to support DirectX 11,...
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EU accepts Microsoft deal on browser choice
Microsoft’s promise to allow Windows users to choose which Internet browser they use has been accepted by the European Commission, ending its...
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Chrome Mac, Linux betas push browser into No. 3 spot
The release last week of betas of Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux pushed the Google browser’s share past Apple’s Safari...
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Sybase is latest RDB maker to embrace MapReduce
Who says there is a war raging between traditional SQL database vendors and the upstarts touting the so-called ‘NoSQL’ technology? A slew...
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Avaya unified communications helps patients reach doctors by phone
Two years ago, patients calling Group Health Cooperative in Seattle for medical advice had zero chance of getting their questions answered on...
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Hackers are defeating tough authentication, Gartner warns
Security measures such as one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication, considered among the most robust forms of security, are no longer enough...
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Adobe probes new in-the-wild PDF bug
Adobe confirmed that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the most up-to-date version of its PDF viewing and editing applications. "This afternoon,...
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Seagate to release world’s thinnest laptop drive
Seagate Technology announced what it’s calling the world’s thinnest laptop and netbook hard drive, the Momentus Thin drive, which at 7mm, is...
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New Western Digital format squeezes 11% more capacity from drives
Western Digital (WD) is beginning to use a new hard disk drive format that opens up between 7% and 11% more capacity...
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Microsoft buys Opalis to strengthen cloud management capabilities
Moving to strengthen its management tools related to virtual environments, Microsoft said that it has purchased IT process automation vendor Opalis for...
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Google’s ‘Nexus One’ test phone: details emerge
Watch out Apple, here comes Nexus One, the Google phone the tech world has been salivating over. Over the weekend Google set...
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Sun updates Java Store beta
Sun Microsystems unveiled an updated beta release of Java Store, a storefront for discovering and acquiring Java and JavaFX applications. The beta...
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FVC highlights tech advantages for Petrochemical industry at PetroTech 2009
FVC is participating in the upcoming PetroTech 2009, an International Oil & Gas Technology Conference and Exhibition to be held in Cairo...
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HP aims at flexible, unified storage
Hewlett-Packard hopes to do the same thing with storage that it did with servers, leveraging years of system-building experience and economies of...