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Adobe explains PDF patch delay
Adobe chose to wait until mid-January to patch a critical PDF bug because issuing an emergency update would have disrupted its quarterly...
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MySQL developers release 5.5 beta
The MySQL developer community has released the first public iteration of what will be the next version of MySQL, version 5.5. MySQL...
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Mozilla ships Firefox 3.6 Beta 5, pushes final into 2010
Mozilla issued a fifth beta of Firefox 3.6 rather than move on to a release candidate, a decision that will push the...
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The 2009 data breach hall of shame
If there was anything even vaguely comforting about the data breaches that were announced this year, it was that many of them...
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Hackers take Twitter offline for a while
Microblogging site Twitter went offline for a while after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army apparently managed to change DNS records,...
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Nexans offers Cat.6A shielded connector
Nexans Cabling Solutions announced that its LANmark-6A shielded snap-in connector has successfully received Cat.6A component compliance certification. This product was certified by...
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Is a Google Netbook on the Horizon?
Reading today’s rumors of a Google netbook makes me wonder whether there is anything Google won’t do to make a buck. The...
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Is Windows 7 the last major chapter in Windows story?
Microsoft Windows 7 may represent the last ever, large in-mass upgrade of the Windows client environment and define the line where the...
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Unified communications making cosmetics firm look good
Kroma Makeup went from using plain old telephone service lines supplemented by cable Internet access to running all its voice, data and...
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Adobe won’t patch latest PDF zero-day until Jan. 12
Adobe won’t patch the newest critical vulnerability in its PDF viewing and editing software for another four weeks, even though attack code...
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EC, Microsoft browser deal wins praise
Microsoft’s successful settlement of its antitrust issues with the European Commission was welcomed by the software company’s foes and friends alike Wednesday,...
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Google’s Nexus One specs leaked
Even if Google employees have kept mum about Nexus One specifics, ROM hackers have been able to dig deep into the phone’s...
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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...