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Microsoft in recent months has slowly boosted its share of the search business, but still remains far behind a so-far unbeatable foe in its battle with Google. Hitwise, an online traffic monitor, today reported that Google last month remained firmly at the head of the search pack while its rival’s well regarded Microsoft Bing product gradually picks up a little traction.

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Google still tops, but Bing inches ahead in search market

Microsoft fixed eight flaws in Windows and Office Tuesday, but passed on patching one Windows component because it cannot be automatically updated.

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Microsoft skips patch for PowerPoint add-on

Apple’s agreement with iPhone developers contains several “troubling” clauses that paint the company as a “jealous and arbitrary feudal lord,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said yesterday. The nonprofit digital rights advocacy group on Tuesday published a January 2010 version of the iPhone Developer License Agreement obtained from NASA through a Freedom of Information Act request

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EFF dubs Apple a ‘jealous feudal lord’ over iPhone dev contract

Jim Thomas said no to Windows Vista — but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter. Thomas, CIO at Pella, says his IT team began beta testing Vista’s successor a year ago as an upgrade path from Windows XP

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IT gives Windows 7 the green light

EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.

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EMC offers deduplication, thin provisioning for VWware on Celerra

EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.

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IT employment grew by 0.37 percent, or 14,000 jobs, in February, one of the strongest month-to-month gains since 2008, according to the TechServe Alliance, an IT services industry group that analyzes U.S. Labor Department unemployment data.

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IT adds 25,000-plus jobs so far in 2010

The Energizer Bunny infects PCs with backdoor malware , the Department of Homeland Security’s US-CERT said Friday. According to researchers at US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team), software that accompanies the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a Trojan horse that gives hackers total access to a Windows PC

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Energizer Bunny’s software infects PCs

Opera Software today said that it has seen a three-fold increase in downloads of its browser since Microsoft started pushing a ballot screen to European users who run Windows.

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Opera downloads triple after browser ballot screen debuts