Microsoft Shows Office 2010 Release Candidate

From DailyTech: Whether you love it or hate it, the majority of the world's corporations depend on Microsoft's Office software suite. Whether it is typing something up on Word or compiling data in Excel, many of us use a version of Office every day.

Microsoft's latest version...

China working to toughen up hacking laws

From InfoWorld: Chinese police and judicial officials are formulating new measures that govern how hacking crimes are handled by courts, the country's latest step to strengthen its cyber laws, state media reported.

China's police are working with the country's highest investigative...

Google dreaming up Chrome OS tablets to take on Apple's iPad

From InfoWorld: Google has conceptual images for what a Chrome OS-based tablet computer user interface might look like at its open source Chromium Projects site.

The images actually went up a couple of days before Apple made its big iPad splash last week. Meanwhile, Apple CEO Steve...

Microsoft links security guidelines to agile development

From InfoWorld: Microsoft on Tuesday released a template for applying its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) methodology to agile software development projects built with the Visual Studio development environment.

The downloadable template, offered in a beta release, enables...

Microsoft investigating Windows 7 battery issue

From CNET News.com: Microsoft says it is looking into a problem that is causing some Windows 7 users to get a warning that there is a problem with their battery when, in fact, there is not.

"We are investigating this issue in conjunction with our hardware partners, which appears to...

Report: Google to open app store for business software

From InfoWorld: Google may open as early as March an online store to sell third-party software that complements its Google Apps collaboration and communication hosted suite, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Google would let customers purchase the software from its store...

Intel, Micron Introduce 25nm NAND Flash Production

From PC World: 2010 will go down as the year flash storage goes mainstream. Intel-Micron Flash Technologies -- a Lehi, Utah-based joint venture from the two companies that's been sharing technology and flash production since 2005 -- has unveiled its 25 nanometer flash production...

NTT DoCoMo to show off 4G handset

From CNET News.com: Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo is set to demonstrate a prototype handset based on high-speed wireless data technology LTE later this month, according to its handset partner, NEC.

NEC said on Monday that NTT will demonstrate the handset receiving streaming high...

New Facebook craze can violate terms of service

From CNET News.com: If you're one of Facebook's 350-million-plus members, you've probably noticed a handful of people on your friends list changing their profile photos to pictures of celebrities, cartoon characters, Muppets, and other notable figures recently.

That's because an...

NVIDIA Names GTX 480, GTX 470 as First GF100 Video Cards

From DailyTech: GPU giant NVIDIA is betting the future of the company on its GF100 graphics chips using the new Fermi architecture. The new chips started mass production last month, and are expected to be used in new video cards that will be launched around the end of February...

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