1. Google disputes bug patching report
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Google on Monday said that a recent report claiming it failed to patch a third of the serious bugs in its software had the facts wrong. IBM's X-Force security company, which released the report last week, ...

2. Scammers prey on required Twitter update
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Scammers are trying to take advantage of the fact that many users will soon have to update their version of the TweetDeck Twitter software. On Monday, TweetDeck warned that some Twitter messages were advising ...

3. HP's Cloudstart said to speed private cloud deployment
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Hewlett-Packard has unveiled CloudStart, a package that includes hardware, software, and consulting services and aims to speed up the construction of private clouds, it said on Monday.Source: InfoWorld ...

4. ARM's next chip design will support virtualization software
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... Monday. The virtualization capabilities will be introduced with the next version of ARM's Cortex A processor, code-named Eagle, which is "very, very close" to being released, said David Brash, a member ...

5. IBM server chips to get 'no-power' sleep mode
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IBM is developing a new deep-sleep mode for its Power processors that will allow them to draw almost no power when they are idle, an IBM engineer said at the Hot Chips conference on Monday.Source: Hardware ...

6. Requiem for an OS: OpenSolaris board closes shop
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Seemingly abandoned by its new owner, the open-source version of the Solaris operating system, called OpenSolaris, has now lost its governing board as well. On Monday, the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) ...

7. Sprint quietly sells 3G femtocell, Verizon set to follow
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... the slower CDMA2000-1x system. Sprint Nextel quietly began offering an EVDO femtocell to selected customers about two weeks ago, and Verizon Wireless confirmed on Monday it will offer one "in the coming ...

8. Intel releases speedier dual-core Atom netbook processor
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Intel on Monday released a dual-core Atom N550 processor, which the company says will bring improved application and graphics performance to netbooks while retaining long battery life. The Atom N550 processor ...

9. Dell buying storage virtualization vendor 3Par for $1.2 billion
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Dell on Monday announced it has agreed to acquire virtualized storage provider 3Par for about $1.2 billion, a move that will boost its capabilities for building public and private cloud computing environments. ...

10. iSuppli warns of looming DRAM shortage
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A shortage of the main memory chips used in personal computers could send prices of the chips higher in the second half of this year, market researcher iSuppli warned on Monday. DRAM makers face two supply ...

11. Registry hack tricks Windows XP SP2 into installing security updates
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People still running the now-retired Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) can trick the operating system into installing security updates, a researcher said Monday.Source: Security Central - Infoworld  ...

12. Qualcomm to ship fastest mobile chip in Q4
(News/Hardware News)

... said on Monday. The company will ship the dual-core QSD8672 chip with CPU cores running at up to 1.5GHz, said Mark Frankel, vice president of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. The chip ...

13. TI to ship dual-core smartphone chip by year end
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Texas Instruments on Monday said it will start shipping a new dual-core chip for devices like smartphones and tablets later this year. The OMAP4430 chip will deliver double the performance of existing ...

14. HP stock down 7.4 percent after Hurd departure
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The news that CEO Mark Hurd resigned hit at the close of Wall Street on Friday. Monday morning trading of the company's shares shows that investors aren't happy.Source: CNET News.com  ...

15. Microsoft sets pricing, release date for Office 2011 for Mac
(News/Software and Application News)

... Monday. Microsoft Office 2011 will come in two editions -- a Mac Home and Student version and a Mac Home and Business offering -- when it ships at the end of October.Source: Applications - Infoworld  ...

16. Patch Monday: Windows shortcut hole gets plugged today
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Remember the Windows shortcut zero-day security hole?Source: Security Central - Infoworld

17. Microsoft schedules emergency Windows patch for Monday
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Microsoft today said it will issue an emergency patch for the critical Windows shortcut bug on Monday, August 2. The company said it is satisfied with the quality of the "out-of-band" update -- Microsoft's ...

18. Google patches Chrome, sidesteps Windows kernel bug
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Google on Monday patched five vulnerabilities in Chrome by issuing a new "stable" build of the browser.Source: Security Central - Infoworld  ...

19. AT&T to be 'premier' Windows Phone 7 vendor
(News/Top Stories)

... last year. "We'll be the premier carrier for Windows Phone 7," a spokeswoman said Monday. "We haven't given guidance on timing."Source: InfoWorld Top Stories  ...

20. Free Sophos tool blocks Windows shortcut attacks
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The security firm Sophos released a tool on Monday that it claimed will block any attacks trying to exploit the critical unpatched vulnerability in Windows' shortcut files.Source: Security Central - Infoworld ...