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Apple, Lenovo set for head-on collision; $14m major click-jacking fraud; Apple fixes iOS vulnerability; Flash is dead | Week in Review

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Between the Lines

Apple, Lenovo set for head-on collision in China

Morgan Stanley's latest Apple data points in China illustrate why new CEO Tim Cook is so hot for the world's largest consumer market. Lenovo won't roll over though.

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FBI shutters $14m major click-jacking fraud; 4 million computers affected

A massive click-jacking fraud led millions of users being served ads when seemingly accessing popular websites, which raked in over $14 million in online advertising revenue.

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Zero Day

Apple fixes iOS vulnerability exposed by Charlie Miller

Apple fixes the security vulnerability that was at the center of its decision to dismiss Charlie Miller from the iOS developer program.

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Flash Player dirty dozen: Adobe plugs code execution holes

Adobe has slapped a “critical” rating on this bulletin and recommends that all affected users apply the patch immediately.

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Companies

 
All About Microsoft

(Not so) crazy Microsoft rumors: Microsoft to unload Commerce Server

Microsoft has been mum about its Commerce Server product plans for the past several months. Maybe it's because Microsoft is about to hand off the platform to one of its reseller partners.

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Googling Google

Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich's Awesomeness is in the Little Things

At the AnDevCon Android Developer Conference, Google highlighted Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich's appeal to the legions of Android Market coders out there.

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The Apple Core

Where the heck is iWork '12?

Apple's last major update of its venerable office suite — iWork — was almost three years ago and it's starting to show its age. Is it going 64-bit? Will it get a reboot?

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Operating Systems

 
Ed Bott's Microsoft Report

Phone scammers target PC users with phony virus reports

Online con artists are targeting PC users worldwide in a brazen scam. It starts with a phone call from a “tech support specialist” who warns that your computer is infected with a virus. To fix things, all you have to do is give the caller remote access to your PC. Here's what happens next.

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Linux and Open Source

Google and Barnes & Noble get serious about Android patent lawsuits

It looks like Google, is going to start defending its allies from Android patent lawsuits, while Barnes & Nobles' is upping the stakes in its own Android intellectual property battle with Microsoft

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Tech Broiler

Microsoft: Where's your $199 Windows Tablet?

A tablet computer combining Windows Phone Mango OS and cloud computing could be a mobile monster.

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ZDNet Industries

 
ZDNet Government

Why the Senate's net neutrality fumble is so much less news than it should have been

The Senate failed to get anything done. Again. This time, they failed to undo toothless net neutrality news. Are you proud of your politicians yet? Yeah, neither are we.

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ZDNet Education

Flash better not be dead

If rich internet applications have to start relying on HTML5 anytime soon, then a whole lot of educational content just became toast.

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ZDNet Health

Technology-induced medical errors: the wave of the future?

Tuesday's federal report addresses the strong need for safety in health IT without irresponsibly discouraging progress.

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Web 2.0

 
SEO Whistleblower

Are you to blame for your child's identity being stolen? (Case study)

In this cautionary tale, I delve into identity theft and how a parent could very well end up responsible for ruining their child's credit, or worse. This is one case study you don't want to miss.

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Social Business

Google+ finally launches Business Pages, now what?

Google has finally released Google+ Business Pages. Now, just like Google+ itself, we need to figure out the value of these pages for, well, business.

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iGeneration

Nine out of ten teenagers experience bullying and cruelty on Facebook, Twitter

Nine out of ten teenagers see bullying, cruelty or anti-social behaviour on Facebook and Twitter.

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Emerging Markets

 
India IT

Microsoft evangelist shows what can be done with company's developer tools

Microsoft India's developer evangelist Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu has over the past few years developed a few proof of concept projects to show what can be done with Microsoft's developer tools. He works with student partners and the offline communities on Kinect and Visual Studio based projects.

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Enterprise Corner

 

Virtualization: RackSpace RackConnect

 

SOA: 3 SOA business cases, explained in a 2-minute elevator speech

 

Gardner: Case study: Southwest Airlines' productivity takes off using virtualization to enable 'IT as a service'

 

Five Nines: Best iOS e-reader app updated and pronounced dead on the same day

 

GreenTech: 'Modlet' throttles energy use of electronics (Green Gadget of the Week)

 

Foremski: Summify deals with information overload in an overloaded market

 

Howlett: SAP Mobile: inching towards the rest of the world

 

IT Failures: Teaching 'Strategic Project Management' at University College London



Featured Photo Gallery

 

Humanoid workers wow crowds at iRex (photos)

Humanoid factory workers and heavy-duty industrial robots mix it up at the 2011 iRex robot trade show in Tokyo.

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Hardware Corner

 

The Toybox: The Nook Tablet is a $249 swipe at Amazon's Kindle Fire (first impressions)

 

Hardware 2.0: iPhone owners to Apple: iOS 5.0.1 doesn't fix battery drain problem

 

Smartphones: Spotify tops the charts for multi-platform support

 

Computers: Poor sales of Chromebooks won't stop Google from promoting Chrome OS

 

Mobile: Which do you prefer, the Amazon Kindle Fire or B&N Nook Tablet?

 

Cameras: Panasonic Lumix DMC-3D1 dual-lens 3D shooter to sell for $500

 

Home Theater: Walmart reveals Black Friday ad with a dozen HDTV deals

 

Networking: Flash is dead. Long live HTML5.

 

Emerging Tech: World's smallest electric car made of single molecule


Featured Video

 

The story behind Apple's NeXT OS in 1996

At a Churchill Club event in San Jose, Calif., Jean-Louis Gassee discusses why Apple chose Steve Jobs NeXTSTEP OS over Gassee's Be OS.

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