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Microsoft Security Patch Fixes 20-Year-Old Flaw

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August 10, 2011
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Microsoft Security Patch Fixes 20-Year-Old Flaw A 1990s-era glitch that produced the "Ping of Death" is one of nearly two dozen vulnerabilities patched Tuesday in Windows, Office, IE and other applications.
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A Harvard Professor Puts Smartphone Usability to the Test Analysis: Which phones are the easiest to use?
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LG's New P220 Laptop Offers Clear Screen Views From Wide Angles LG Electronics introduces a laptop with a screen that the company says allows multiple people to watch from wide angles without any loss in image quality.
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Skytap Automates Cloud Deployments Skytap, a provider of cloud automation software, unveiled orchestration and configuration products designed to enable easy creation of virtual environments.
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Visa to Make It Easier for Merchants to Adopt Chip-based Card Payments Visa today announced plans that will let qualifying merchants in the U.S. eliminate the need to annually validate their compliance with the Payment Card Industry data standard.
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Apple Gets Injunction Barring Samsung Galaxy Tab Sales in Europe Apple confirmed that a German court has granted a preliminary injunction blocking Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets.
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6 Tools That Help Businesses Tame Twitter Twitter can be a powerful business tool, not to mention a valuable source of metrics data and feedback.
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Windows 7 to Crack 40% Share by Year's End Windows 7 will be on 42% of the world's computers by the end of this year, a Gartner analyst predicted today.
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Verizon Makes Its Satellite Dishes Available as Standard Service Verizon announced it is turning its 19 years of responding to hurricanes and disasters with ground-based mobile satellite technology into a standard service for a variety of businesses and governments.
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Evaluating Cloud Vendors: The Ecosystem Matters It's axiomatic that in software of any complexity, the ecosystem of plug-in products, tools, compatible APIs, and developer community can become really...
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VMware Licensing Change Opens Doors for Competing Providers When VMware announced last week that it would loosen the radical change in price structure it announced only a month ago, it was doing more than mollifying a few disgruntled customers.
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Amazon Outflanks Apple with Kindle Cloud Reader Amazon recently removed the Kindle Store button from its iOS app to avoid sharing revenue with Apple, and now it is circumventing Apple even more with the introduction of a Web-based Kindle app.
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Lessons from Amazon Cloud Lightning Strike Outage Amazon lost both its primary and backup power in a single lightning strike. What can Amazon, and customers of Amazon's cloud server and data storage services learn from the Dublin data center incident?
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Free Software Activists to Stop UK Gov't Promotion of Adobe Free software advocates have criticized what they call the British Government’s promotion of proprietary software.
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