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Firefox 3.1 trashes IE 7 in performance, and even outshines Firefox 3.0.
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Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band patch today, fixing a critical flaw in Internet Explorer that has already led to numerous active attacks in the wild.
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A Massachusetts man was accused of downloading and viewing child pornography on his office computer until a computer forensics expert got the root of the problem.
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If you want to be on Facebook you have to agree to its terms, even if it doesn't tell you when they've changed.
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Open-source security guru says yes, but others are not so sure
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Office Live Workspace is a patched together, too little, too late offering compared to Google Docs.
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Experts say the Fannie Mae contract engineer indicted for planting a logic bomb in the company's servers is part of a trend of insider threats that will likely increase because of the economic downturn.
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Microsoft is on course to end-of-life Windows XP -- even as testing indicates it has the upper hand over Vista.
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Defcon conference organizers pull off their own "sting" operation against an undercover reporter.
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Apple releases a major upgrade to its iPhone, with nifty new features, as it continues to roll out improvements to its popular platform.
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A Bush lawyer told Congress that an IT contractor did daily audits of the archiving system that swallowed 5 million executive branch e-mails from 2003-05. But inside sources tell ChannelWeb that's just not true.
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A new B2B marketplace for matching buyers of IT development services with developers here and abroad has just gone live.
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RIM Wednesday unveiled the BlackBerry Storm, the device maker's first-ever touch-screen device, to rival the Apple iPhone.
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President-elect Barack Obama's success at the polls led to a wave of malware that is exploiting his fame to distribute malware.
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By unveiling MobileMe, Jobs did what Google and Microsoft tried but failed to do: Define the cloud, and turn it into a broad-based, SaaS offering for anyone.
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Microsoft is preparing to retaliate against 'noisy competitors' with a major new multi-million dollar advertising campaign, an executive says at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference.
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The study also reveals that the majority of Safari users were likely to run an updated browser.
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Microsoft said it will release an out-of-band patch for a flaw in Internet Explorer that allows remote hackers to take over a user's computer.
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For the second straight quarter, Microsoft blamed netbooks for eating into its normally strong Windows client revenue, and partners are waiting for the software giant's response.
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The supercomputer is expected to be among the top 20 fastest supercomputers in the world, 30 times faster than the peak performance of Canada's current largest research system.
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David Kernell, the alleged hacker of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo email address, pled not guilty before a judge yesterday.
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With Fedora 9 expected in May, the Test Center pokes through the Beta to try out some of the new features and improvements.
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Online crime has become by some estimates a hundred-billion-dollar industry, and it shows. The business models may be more sophisticated than yours.
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Microsoft's reported choice of Jerry Seinfeld as one of the spokespeople for its upcoming $300 million advertising campaign has some channel partners scratching their heads.
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