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Wired: With the launch of Windows 8 and Windows RT (the Windows 8 version for tablets) just a couple months away, Microsoft has released more details about the launch of the new operating system. A new blog post from Microsoft’s Mike Anguilo says the company is working very hard with partners like Dell, Lenovo, Asus […]

eWeek: Oracle has issued an update for its flagship database that patches a security vulnerability demonstrated at July’s Black Hat conference. Security expert David Litchfield discovered the bug, which allows authenticated remote users to execute SQL commands and could allow a full takeover of the database. The company advised, “Due to the threat posed by […]

Computerworld: Apple has long been known as a brand for the young, the hip, and the tech-savvy–but not anymore. According to the YouGov Brandindex, Apple’s biggest supporters are now age 35 and older. That shift in customer demographics may help explain Apple’s recent advertising strategy. During the Olympics, the company ran a highly-criticized series of […]

InformationWeek: If your website has been accused of copyright infringement, it could soon have a much lower search ranking. On Friday, Google’s Amit Singhal blogged, “Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Sites with […]

The New York Times: Google plans to cut 20 percent of its Motorola Mobility workforce and shutter a third of Motorola’s 94 offices. That will mean layoffs for approximately 4,000 workers, about a third of whom will be located in the U.S. Already, Google has gotten rid of 40 percent of the Motorola vice presidents. […]

eWeek: Both Microsoft and Adobe are planning security updates for August 14. Adobe will release upgrades for Adobe Reader and Acrobat X, but provided few details about what is in the updates. Microsoft will issue nine security bulletins, including five that are considered “critical.” The critical updates address vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft SQL […]

The Inquirer: Red Hat has released a preview of its version of the Openstack cloud computing software bundled with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The company plans to begin selling commercial support for the open source infrastructure-as-a-service software next year. Red Hat has been a big supporter of and contributor to the Open Stack project, as […]

Computerworld: According to Everest Group, companies signed 411 new IT and business process outsourcing contracts in the second quarter of 2012, 20 percent fewer than in the same quarter of 2011. “The market is growing, but the pace of growth is slowing down,” explained Everest Group’s Salil Dani. The company believes the slowdown is due […]

Reuters: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed a $22.5 million fine on Google. The fine will close out an FTC investigation into allegations that Google used tracking cookies to bypass privacy settings on Apple’s Safari browser. That tracking violated the terms of an earlier settlement Google had negotiated with the agency. In the latest […]

The New York Times: For the fourth time in three years, researchers from security vendor Kaspersky Lab have found what they believe to be a state-sponsored piece of malware. Dubbed “Gauss,” the latest virus appears to have been written by the creators of Flame and to be possibly related to Stuxnet. Gauss currently infects about […]