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	Google accuses Microsoft, Oracle, Apple of "hostile" patent campaign Google's chief legal officer today accused rivals Microsoft, Oracle and Apple of "a hostile, organized campaign against Android ... waged through bogus patents." Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Benefits of an ITIL Help Desk in the Cloud You can implement help desk processes based on ITIL easily with reduced up-front costs and automatic upgrades. Used by more than 72,500 companies worldwide, the Force.com platform is the most widely used Cloud platform in the world. Read More In this Issue Former FCC, Microsoft exec to be next U.S. CIO Microsoft incorrectly claims drop in vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest 'Dumb IE users' report faked, admits scam's architect FBI eyeing Microsoft technologies to assist law enforcement Computer scientist calls for Web search shake-up Does the Mac have an edge against state-sponsored hacking? 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Read More Microsoft incorrectly claims drop in vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution In its latest annual security report, Microsoft claimed some progress in fending off vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution, but the initial version of the report released Monday contained errors, and a corrected version released today no longer claims that the total number of vulnerabilities allowing remote code execution is dropping. Read More Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest Microsoft launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Unified Communications: Getting the Green Light In these articles, Network World and its sister IDG Enterprise publications explore the rising importance of UC within the enterprise and provide advice on how to create a working strategy. Learn more 'Dumb IE users' report faked, admits scam's architect A report issued last week that claimed users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer have lower IQs than those who run rival browsers was a hoax. Read More FBI eyeing Microsoft technologies to assist law enforcement In dealing with how law enforcement must keep pace with technology, and the challenges represented by the ever-changing world of wireless devices, the FBI published Wireless Evolution [PDF]. It was originally published in the March 2011 Emerging Technologies Research Bulletin, but this FOIA publication on Secrecy News was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists. Read More Computer scientist calls for Web search shake-up Given the seemingly non-stop battle between Google, Microsoft and others in Web search, you might think this is a pretty fertile area for new ideas. But a University of Washington computer science professor thinks otherwise and is calling on academia and industry to get way more creative. 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The event will take place September 8-10 at Microsoft's Redmond campus, one week before the BUILD developer conference in Anaheim, Calif. Read More OS X Lion requires Windows 7 for Boot Camp Boot Camp, the Mac OS X utility that lets Mac owners run Windows in a separate partition, now requires Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 7. Read More Windows XP's share falls below 50% Microsoft's Windows XP has slipped under the 50% share mark for the first time since Web measurement company Net Applications began tracking operating system usage. Read More
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