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Computerworld: Someone has leaked sample exploit code to hackers, and Microsoft isn’t happy about it. The story begins in March of 2011 when Italian security researcher Luigi Auriemma found a security vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Protocol. Auriemma passed the information on to HP TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative, a bug bounty program. The HP group […]

PCWorld: Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the week with a conference call during which he claimed record sales numbers for the new iPad. He declined to give any specific figures, but did say, “We had a record weekend, and we are thrilled with it.” The real purpose of the call was to announce Apple’s […]

Reuters: Apple’s iPad may dominate the tablet market for now, but Dell isn’t willing to concede defeat just yet. Although Dell discontinued its Streak tablet last year, the company will announce plans to launch a tablet line based on Windows 8 before the end of the year. “We’re very encouraged by the touch capability we […]

InformationWeek: Nearly a year after announcing plans to make its Dynamics ERP suite available in the cloud, Microsoft is finally coming closer to turning those plans into reality. The company will soon enable two products from the Dynamics line–Dynamics NAV 2013 and Dynamics GP 2013–for use through its Azure cloud computing platform. Betas of the […]

Supersite for Windows: Microsoft has made the Office 15 Technical Preview available to only a few testers who signed a non-disclosure agreement, but Paul Thurrott managed to get a look at the software. He reports that the next version of Microsoft Word, “shows a decidedly friendlier face than does its predecessor, in a full screen […]

Computerworld: Security companies say they’re seeing an increase in malware signed with fraudulent digital certificates. The Stuxnet worm was one of the first to use the technique, and now other malware creators have adopted the tactic. Costin Raiu of Kaspersky Labs explained that malware with a digital certificate is particularly troublesome because “signed modules are […]

eWeek: Although Intel remained number on in the chip market in 2011, AMD made some gains, IDC reports. Intel captured 80.1 percent of the market, a 0.6 percent decline over 2010. However, because processor shipments grew 3.6 percent and average selling prices climbed 9 percent, Intel’s revenue jumped up 13.9 percent to hit $41 billion. […]

Cnet: For the seventh time in a row, Apple’s iPhone has captured first place in J.D. Power’s semiannual smartphone customer satisfaction survey. The iPhone scored 839 points (out of 1,000), followed by HTC smartphones with 798 points, Samsung with 769 points and Motorola with 758 points. Across the board, the biggest complaint among smartphone owners […]

All Things D: Cisco has confirmed that it has purchased NDS for about $5 billion in cash, plus the assumption of debt. An Israeli firm, NDS specializes in software that securely delivers video and interactive content to set-top boxes. Before the acquisition, rumors swirled that Cisco was getting out of the set-top box business. However, […]

VentureBeat: Congress has received a letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook detailing the company’s privacy policies, but the legislators say it doesn’t answer all of their questions. Representatives G.K. Butterfield and Henry Waxman have sent another missive to Cook, requesting that the company defend its practices in person. The Congressmen are concerned about apps which […]

Wall Street Journal: Google is about to make one of the biggest changes in its history to its Web search engine. In addition to presenting users with a page of links where they might find the information they are seeking, Google will offer facts and straight answers to questions typed into the search box. For […]

BBC News: Individuals who claim affiliation with the hacktivist group Anonymous have released their own operating system (OS). Already, more than 26,000 people have downloaded the OS from Sourceforge. Based on the Ubuntu distribution of the open source Linux OS, the software comes chock full of hacking tools. However, experts caution users to be wary […]