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Apple iPad Tablet of Choice for Small Businesses: NPD
Nearly three quarters of U.S. small and midsize businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees have plans to purchase tablets over the next 12 months, with the Apple iPad being the most considered tablet among those firms planning an upcoming purchase, according to IT research firm The NPD Group s third quarter SMB Technology Monitor. Among the…
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Windows Phone Road Map Details ‘Tango,’ ‘Apollo’
A leaked Windows Phone road map purports to trace the smartphone platform’s evolution over the next year. The road map was first posted Dec. 27 by the blog WMPoweruser, which declined to mention the source. Nonetheless, if taken at face value, the document suggests that Microsoft will follow up its recent Mango software update with…
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Microsoft Releases Workarounds for DoS Zero-Day Bug in ASP.NET
Microsoft has released a workaround for an ASP.NET vulnerability to help protect Websites against potential denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, according to a security advisory. The publicly disclosed vulnerability affects all supported versions of the .NET framework, but Microsoft is "not aware" of any attacks in the wild currently exploiting the flaw, Dave Forstrom, director of Microsoft…
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Apple iPhone 4 Users Get Siri Through Spire Hack
Owners of Apple s iPhone 4 who have a hankering to use the company s much-publicized voice-recognition personal assistant Siri can now do so thanks to a download designed by a hacker known as chpwn, who posted the details of the program on his blog. The tool, Spire, will download Siri itself (directly from Apple)…
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Windows Phone Marketplace Reaches 50,000 Apps
According to All About Windows Phone (AAWP), the Windows Phone Marketplace now has more than 50,000 apps. Although 50,000 is less than one-tenth of what Apple s iOS App Store has and also a fraction of the more than 400,000 apps in Android Market, Microsoft s ascent to 50,000 apps is a solid milestone given…
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The State of Windows 7 Deployments 2011
The State of Windows 7 Deployments 2011 56 percent of organizations have begun to deploy Windows 7. No Title Among those, though, deployment is on average only about 10 percent complete. No Title 13 percent of organizations have Windows 7 deployed on less than a quarter of their fleet of PCs. No Title Over a…
