Bugs hit Google Docs after recent upgrade
Google Docs users are having problems printing, exporting, and uploading certain files, the company acknowledged, as it is rolling out a set of upgrades to this hosted office productivity suite.
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Update: Acer debuts smartphone, netbook with Google Android
Acer, the world's third largest PC vendor, on Wednesday announced two of its most highly anticipated products with Google's Android mobile operating system on board, the Liquid smartphone and an Aspire One netbook.
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Dell CEO slams netbooks, hails Windows 7
Michael Dell has given netbooks a big thumbs down, but he thinks Windows 7 can restore our faith in PCs.
The Dell founder and CEO answered questions Tuesday night at a Silicon Valley dinner sponsored by the Churchill Club, where he also owned up to the "biggest mistake" of his career and described his company's plan to expand further into IT services.
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Adobe mimics Microsoft, issues mega security update
Adobe issued a security update Tuesday that patched 29 vulnerabilities in its popular PDF viewing and editing applications, most of them bugs that attackers can use to grab control of personal computers.
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New iPhone 3GS may be jailbreak-proof
The cat-and-mouse game between Apple and a cadre of hackers continues as Apple is reportedly now shipping iPhone 3GS units that are jailbreak-proof.
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Intel reports strong Q3 buoyed by economy's 'momentum'
Intel on Tuesday reported strong third-quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations and were buoyed by what the company called "momentum" in the economy.
The chip maker reported third-quarter revenue of $9.39 billion for the quarter that ended Sept. 26, beating the $9.04 billion estimated by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. Revenue was up by $1.4 billion compared to this fiscal year's second quarter, though it was lower than the $10.2 billion Intel reported in the third quarter last year.
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Twitter warns users not to change log-in data until further notice
Twitter users should refrain from changing their log-in data until further notice or else risk getting locked out of their accounts.
Twitter is investigating instances of users who have lost access to their accounts after modifying their usernames, passwords or e-mail addresses, the microblogging company said on Tuesday.
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Salesforce.com CEO makes nice to Oracle at OpenWorld
Attendees packed into a presentation by Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff at Oracle's OpenWorld conference Tuesday, but those hoping the executive would deliver some of his trademark trash talk toward Oracle left the room disappointed.
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Microsoft's biggest-ever Patch Tuesday spells admin nightmare
Corporate security and network administrators face a "nightmare" task just trying to figure out what to patch and what to let slide after Microsoft issued its biggest-ever batch of updates today, researchers argued.
"This is the biggest number of bulletins," said Jason Miller, the security and data team manager for patch management vendor Shavlik Technologies. "It's also the biggest number of individual patches."
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Oracle shows off sheer technology volume
An Oracle official at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference gave a glimpse Tuesday into the volume of technologies coming out of the company. The company this week also detailed a host of software development-related product plans.
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Oracle shows off sheer technology volume
An Oracle official at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference gave a glimpse Tuesday into the volume of technologies coming out of the company. The company this week also detailed a host of software development-related product plans.
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Microsoft recants, admits new bug is being exploited
One of the 34 bugs Microsoft patched on Tuesday is more serious than it first appeared. Two hours after initially reporting in its security bulletin (MS09-051) that it was unaware of attacks exploiting a multimedia flaw in the Windows Media Runtime software, Microsoft revised its assessment. The software vendor now says that its initial bulletin was wrong and it has in fact seen "limited attacks trying to use the reported vulnerability."
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Dell details the Efficient Enterprise strategy at OpenWorld
Dell chairman and CEO Michael Dell touted Dell's "Efficient Enterprise" strategy Wednesday at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference and wasآ joined briefly onstage by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who stressed that Oracle is a major user of Dell equipment as well as a partner.
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