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Bloomberg Businessweek: Salesforce.com’s billings rose 29 percent in the third quarter, but that fell short of analysts’ expectations of 33 percent growth. Worries that revenue growth for the CRM leader may be slowing sent the stock price tumbling. “For a stock that’s priced to perfection, priced at 30 times cash flow, this is a disappointment,” […]

Computerworld: Recently, Adobe announced that it would no longer be developing Flash technology for mobile devices. That wasn’t good enough for some developers. They’ve formed a group called “Occupy Flash” that is dedicated to getting Flash off the desktop as well. “Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. […]

PCMag: When RIM debuted its PlayBook tablet, prices started at $499 for the 16GB version, but the day after Thanksgiving, you’ll be able to pick one up at Staples for just $199. RIM’s tablet has been struggling to attract customers. The company could be hoping that the drastic price cut will attract more interest. After […]

InformationWeek: According to market research firm Gartner, Android captured 52.5 percent of the mobile operating system market in the third quarter. That means Google’s platform has more users than all the other smartphone platforms combined. It’s particularly striking because Android has made most of those gains in a single year; in last year’s third quarter, […]

PCWorld: Google says that it plans to merge its two payment services: Checkout and Wallet. Currently, Checkout processes Web payments, while Wallet, introduced in September, processes mobile transactions. Customers will soon be able to use the same login credentials for both services. The Wallet name will slowly be phased out. “Early next year, we will […]

eWeek: Staffing firm Robert Half Technology says that IT security pros should see pay increases of about 4.5 percent next year, making IT security one of the hottest professions in terms of salary growth. In addition, 24 percent of CIOs said that security was their top professional concern. Overall, the Robert Half Technology expects IT […]

BBC News: Samsung will launch a redesigned Galaxy Tab tablet later this month in order to get around a German sales ban. The German courts banned sales of the original Galaxy Tab in Germany because it looked too much like Apple’s iPad. Samsung’s new tablet will have a redesigned metal frame, and the speakers will […]

Cnet: A new report from Juniper Networks says that malware on Google’s Android platform has soared 474 percent since July. October and November have been particularly bad, with the fastest rise in malicious files for Android ever. Juniper blames the problem on Google’s lack of app review. “The main reason for the malware epidemic on […]

Computer Weekly: The latest report from Trend Micro says that Google has replaced Microsoft as the software provider with the most known security vulnerabilities, primarily because of flaws in the Chrome browser. Microsoft actually fell to third on the list, behind Oracle. The report also says that the nature of cyberattacks is changing: targeted attacks […]

ZDNet: Facebook says it has made changes which will shut down the clickjacking attack that caused many user profile pages to display porn or violent images. It blamed the problem on a browser flaw that allowed cross-site scripting attacks. The company says that it knows who was behind the attack; other media reports say that […]

Computerworld: At the SC11 supercomputing conference, Intel unveiled its Knights Corner processor, which has more than 50 cores on a single chip. It also touted its Xeon E5 server chip, which offers double the performance of its predecessors. Both Knights Corner and Xeon E5 chips will be used to build the Stampede supercomputer, which will […]

The Verge: Last summer, Microsoft made a slip-up that revealed it was working on a social networking service at Socl.com. While the page has since been taken down, The Verge reports that Microsoft has continued work on the super-secret project. While it may never go public in its current form, Socl combines social networking with […]