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Google Apps adds Postini security software

Postini policy enforcement layer moves beyond Gmail

Another massive Windows security update due from Microsoft

Patches due for most versions of Windows

Adobe patches five critical Shockwave Player bugs

Four of the flaws could allow hackers to execute malicious code

Developers to put PayPal payments into applications

PayPal X pushes micro-payments

Old Microsoft Office patch protects against most attacks

But Windows Update service should offer Office patches, expert says

Platform Computing launches cloud computing capability for HPC

Platform Computing and Microsoft create tools to build private clouds

Apache Foundation to release Tomcat Java update

Open source community to take over Subversion project

Siemens lets app developers mix Twitter with unified communications

Amazon cloud site modelled on iPhone App Store

Novell to launch social networking for enterprises

Pulse to link up with Google Wave in collaboration move.

Microsoft open source foundation lays down rules

CodePlex makes community projects 'commercial friendly'

Palm shows cloud application development

Develop apps for Palm Pre and Pixi in a web browser

Google Dashboard claims to meet privacy concerns

Everything Google knows about you

Apple reaches 100,000 iPhone apps milestone

About 30% of App Store downloads are paid

BlackBerry Windows software manager has security flaw

RIM advises immediate update

Firefox interface to look more like Google Chrome

Mozilla plans major overhaul of user experience

Google Apps to get video conferencing improvement

Ability to chat to more than two participants

Apache Software Foundation still open to change

A decade on and still at the forefront of open source

WordPress sites hit by botnet

But buggy code may be a boon

Aster promises massive decrease in processing time

Claims deeper analytics in data warehousing now possible

HTML 5 web standard hits video issues

Formal adoption in 2012 at the earliest


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