Nokia says Microsoft talks on schedule (Reuters)
Reuters - Talks between Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker by volume, and Microsoft on a software deal are on schedule and a large number of Nokia Windows phones should be sold in 2012.
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Lawson Software Takes Page From Apple With Marketplace (PC World)
PC World - Lawson Software is taking a cue from Apple, Amazon and others, announcing on Monday the Lawson Marketplace, an online store where customers can use a credit card to buy a range of add-on tools for their ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications.
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Lawson Aims Customers Toward the Amazon Cloud (PC World)
PC World - Lawson Software is hoping to entice its customer base to deploy their applications in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and has a marquee customer to show it can be done successfully.
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Windows 8 to Replace Your Toolbar with a Ribbon (PC World)
PC World - Just hours after an early build of Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system leaked we're starting to get a good idea of how the latest version of Windows is shaping up.
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What Microsoftأ¢آ€آ™s IE9 Moves Mean For You (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's Internet Explorer has created some ripples in the browser sector lately, which could have implications regardless of whether you are in the Microsoft Internet Explorer camp. Microsoft said last week it would not make Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) compatible with Windows XP.
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Malicious attack hits a million Web pages (Reuters)
Reuters - More than one million website pages have been hit by a sophisticated hacking attack that injects code into sites that redirect users to a fraudulent software sales operation.
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Microsoft Reconsiders WP7 App Rejection (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft appears to be reconsidering a decision to bar an application from the Windows Phone 7 market, in one of the first tests of the software giant's mobile app approval process.
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UberSocial Fixes Direct-message Privacy Bug (PC World)
PC World - UberSocial has fixed a bug in its Twitter software for mobile phones that put some users' privacy at risk.
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Windows Phone 7 and the Unimportance of Apps (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft says that Windows Phone 7's app marketplace is booming. In a chest-beating blog post, Microsoft revealed that WinPho7's app count stands at 11,500, and that's without wallpapers or duplicate apps in different languages. The ecosystem has 36,000 developers, 60 percent of which haven't even published anything yet, so the potential for growth is huge.
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Motion Control of Gmail Is a Joke -- Or Maybe Not (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Reality is catching up with Google's annual April Fools' joke. In this year's installment, users can enjoy motion control of their e-mail in the "new" Gmail Motion. Given a recent report that the software giant is about to release an app that allows you to retrieve information via facial recognition, and the flood of innovations made possible by Microsoft's Kinect motion controller, this year's joke doesn't seem so far-fetched.
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Four New Features Coming to Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' (PC World)
PC World - The combination of Ubuntu Linux's growing popularity with all the big changes coming up in the next version mean that Natty Narwhal, or Ubuntu 11.04, might just be the most widely and anxiously anticipated release of the open source operating system ever.
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Twitter: Some UberSocial Direct Messages Not Private (PC World)
PC World - Twitter is warning users of the popular UberSocial Twitter-messaging software that direct messages they send may not be private.
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Linux and ARM Power New 10-Inch Netbooks (PC World)
PC World - Hardware maker Hercules this week gave Linux fans a nice boost by unveiling two new additions to its eCAFأƒآ‰ netbook line that use ARM processors and run the open source operating system.
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Samsung Cleared of Keylogger Accusation: One Nagging Question Remains (PC World)
PC World - Samsung says it is not using rogue software to record every keyboard stroke users make using Windows-based Samsung laptops. The denial comes after security researcher Mohamed Hassan accused the company in a Network World article of installing keylogger software called StarLogger on Samsung laptops.
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Roku Offers Set-Top Boxes in Best Buy Stores (PC World)
PC World - Roku is making a play for brick-and-mortar sales again, offering its mid-range XD box for sale at Best Buy stores nationwide this week. Last year, a Netgear-branded set-top box with Roku software was available at retail store but Roku is betting on its own brand this time.
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Google's App Engine Gets New Search Feature (PC World)
PC World - The Python SDK (Software Development Kit) for Google's cloud platform App Engine has a new search feature that can be used to build notification, monitoring, or filtering services, Google said in a blog post on Wednesday.
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HP Gives Developers Access to SDK for WebOS TouchPad (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard is giving developers early access to the webOS 3.0 SDK (Software Development Kit), hoping that they will start working on applications for the company's upcoming TouchPad tablet, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.
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Samsung Laptops Not Shipping with Keyloggers (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Samsung this week strongly denied that it is shipping laptops with keylogging software that could track the activity of its users, and traced the problem to a security program known as VIPRE.
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Samsung Series 9 Laptop Shows No Signs Of Spyware (PC World)
PC World - Are Samsung laptops shipping with software that will monitor your every keystroke, as one security researcher claimed Wednesday? We can't say for sure, but we couldn't find any trace of spying software on the one Samsung laptop in PCWorld's Lab.
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Software update fixes MacBook Air-iTunes issue (Macworld)
Macworld - Owners of last yearأ¢آ€آ™s MacBook Air models whoأ¢آ€آ™ve been running into problems with iTunes got some relief Wednesday in the form of an Apple software update. The catchily-named Mac OS X v10.6.7 Supplemental Update for 13أ¢آ€آ MacBook Air (Late 2010)أ¢آ€آ”or أ¢آ€آœupdateأ¢آ€آ for shortأ¢آ€آ”tackles an issue where Appleأ¢آ€آ™s ultra-thin laptop became unresponsive when using iTunes.
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