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Microsoft tries to lure NetSuite users with new deal 11 March 2010 at 1:16 pm by admin

Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft’s Dynamics family of business applications.

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+ IE zero-day exploit code goes public By admin 11 March 2010 at 7:13 am and have No Comments

Exploit code for the unpatched bug in Internet Explorer was published on the Web yesterday, a step security pros said earlier would be the precursor to widespread attacks.

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+ Poor Bill Gates: Mexican telecom tycoon grabs Richest Man title By admin 11 March 2010 at 6:30 am and have No Comments

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list released Tuesday, but it’s not like he’s going to have to go crawling back for his old job either.

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+ Motorola to put Bing search on Android phones By admin 11 March 2010 at 6:25 am and have No Comments

Motorola will start loading Microsoft’s Bing search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China .

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+ Cisco, Microsoft certifications increase high-tech salaries By admin 10 March 2010 at 3:43 pm and have No Comments

For high-tech workers , it pays to be certified, according to research conducted by Dice Learning that shows 10 IT certifications stand out for delivering higher salaries .

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+ Expert says Chinese government likely behind massive cyberattacks By admin 10 March 2010 at 3:00 pm and have No Comments

The Chinese government is likely behind recent cyberattacks on U.S. government Web sites and on U.S

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+ HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash By admin 10 March 2010 at 9:28 am and have No Comments

With the iPad presale beginning in just a few days, and the clock ticking down to the much-anticipated Apple tablet finally hitting the streets, HP launched a renewed campaign for its Slate tablet PC debuted at the 2010 CES by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

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+ Microsoft skips patch for PowerPoint add-on By admin 10 March 2010 at 7:39 am and have No Comments

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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+ EFF dubs Apple a ‘jealous feudal lord’ over iPhone dev contract By admin 10 March 2010 at 7:29 am and have No Comments

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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+ Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing By admin 10 March 2010 at 5:42 am and have No Comments

Twitter has launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service. Part of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in email notifications and direct messages from other users written as twt.tl, Twitter said in a blog post.

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