Microsoft Updates Office 2008 for Mac for Security

From PC World: Microsoft updated Office 2011 for Mac on Tuesday, but what of earlier versions of Office? They're not about to be left out in the cold: Microsoft has also released Office 2008 for Mac version 12.2.9, bringing security patches and a couple of other updates to the...

Microsoft offers first details on next version of Windows Phone

From CNET News.com: Microsoft plans to offer the first detailed look at the development platform for the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed Mango, due later this year.

The details will come later this morning at Mix11, Microsoft's annual show for Web and phone developers, the...

AMD to back USB 3.0 in its chips

From CNET News.com: Advanced Micro Devices will support USB 3.0 in its chips, marking the first instance of a major PC processor supplier getting behind the standard. Intel has yet to support the high-speed interface.

The USB Implementers Forum today announced that AMD will deliver...

HP Unveils Three New EliteBook Notebooks

From DailyTech: HP has pulled the wraps off some new EliteBook notebooks for business users. The new notebooks include the HP EliteBook 8460W, 8560W, and 8760W. These three machines are the successors to the EliteBook 8440w, 8540w, and 8740w models that landed last year.

The new...

Cisco Kills Flip Video Camera Division

From DailyTech: What once seemed like a promising segment of the consumer electronics market is now being brushed aside -- at least in the Cisco camp. Just two years ago, coughed up nearly $600M to acquire Pure Digital, the maker of the popular Flip video cameras.

While many...

AMD to Refresh Vision Brand Outlook Along with Launch of New Chips

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to attract more attention to its new Fusion accelerated processing units (APUs) that will power mainstream desktops and notebooks due in mid-2011, Advanced Micro Devices plans to change the outlook of its "AMD Vision" stickers as well as slightly change the...

Adobe confirms critical Flash zero-day bug

From InfoWorld: For the second time in the last four weeks, Adobe has told users that hackers are exploiting an unpatched bug in Flash Player, again by embedding malicious code inside a Microsoft Office document.

In a security advisory issued Monday, Adobe said that attackers are...

YouTube Unveils Live Streaming Service

From PC World: YouTube is expanding its video offerings, launching a live-streaming service to complement its catalog of recorded videos.

Executives late last week took the wraps off YouTube Live, which integrates live-streaming capabilities into the YouTube platform.

YouTube also...

Microsoft to preview IE10 at Mix11 show

From CNET News.com: Just weeks after launching Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft will preview an early version of Internet Explorer 10 at its Mix11 conference here in Las Vegas today.

Microsoft will deepen its commitment to HTML5 in the new browser. "With Internet Explorer 9, Web sites...

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