Users of Adobe PDF Reader should check they are running the latest version of the software after the discovery of an exploit that takes advantage of a serious flaw patched only three weeks ago .
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Reader exploit prompts Adobe update alert
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Some BlackBerry users are complaining of an inability to use data services for two days in a row. It appears that the issue could be related to two separate problems. While some users seemed to be back in business late Tuesday, others were still having problems
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BlackBerry devices hit with ongoing data issues
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
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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Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing
Google will launch on Tuesday evening Google Apps Marketplace, providing a venue for third-party, cloud-based applications to supplement Google’s own online applications. The program enables integrations with such applications as Google Gmail, Documents, Sites and Calendar.
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Google opens Google Apps Marketplace
Sun’s chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog Tuesday. “Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean),” Phipps wrote. “I am a few months short of my 10th anniversary there (I joined at JavaOne in 2000) and my 5th anniversary as Chief Open Source Officer.”
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Sun’s open source chief leaves following Oracle merger
If the public wants online privacy it had better fight now for laws to protect it because businesses won’t and individuals don’t have the clout, security expert Bruce Schneier told RSA Conference.
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Schneier: Fight for online privacy or kiss it good-bye
Chip giant Intel, a major backer of the movement to provide mobile WiMax wireless broadband to Internet users around the world, expects the next major release of the technology to be deployed starting in 2012, an executive said Tuesday. “Standards work will be completed by the end of this year,” said Rama Shukla, a vice president and director of the WiMax program office at Intel, during a news conference in Taipei.
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Intel sees 2012 deployment for mobile WiMax Release 2
The technical services group of Capgemini has traditionally helped companies with system integration, but cloud computing is changing that. The company is increasingly assembling lots of different software-as-a-service applications, a phenomenon that has led Capgemini to create a new business unit.
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New Capgemini unit to offer cloud help
The Eclipse Foundation on Monday is announcing a restructuring of its Mylyn task-focused interface project, adding sub-projects for several functions.
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Eclipse restructures Mylyn task-focused interface project