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		<title>The Sales Of Microprocessors Soared To Record Levels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The atom processor of Intel has been of great help to the PC microprocessor makers for selling out record number of their chips during the third quarter. This processor is used in the netbooks. According to IDC, which is a market researcher, the overall value of these chips in the market though have fallen but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-sales-of-microprocessors-soared-to-record-levels.htm</link>
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		<title>Android Smartphone Experiences Turbulence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The first smartphone developer, High tech computer, who made this smartphone to be based upon the Android mobile operating system by Google, has been experiencing a decline in its revenue generation during the third quarter of the year as its competition has increased during the year and also its sales also gone down in all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/android-smartphone-experiences-turbulence.htm</link>
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		<title>Microsoft And The Platform Of Oslo Modeling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Oslo modeling software technology has been renamed by Microsoft and it changed to SQL server modeling. During the coming week, Microsoft will also be releasing the preview of the community technology (CTP) of the platform which will use the new name for it. A representative at Microsoft Corp. has said that the older name [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/microsoft-and-the-platform-of-oslo-modeling.htm</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Pulled Its Windows 7 Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A blogger Rafael Rivera has accused Microsoft for yanking one tool which is used as a way to install Windows 7 by the netbook owners without any DVD drive. The company used such an open source code about which they didn’t know where it was originated.
	The free utility of WUDT had been pulled away from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/microsoft-pulled-its-windows-7-tools.htm</link>
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		<title>Adobe Says Good Bye To 680 Staffers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	680 staff members are heard to be laid off by Adobe systems. This number makes 9% of the overall work place. This has been thought to be done just to cut down the cost which is incurred by the company.
	The company has told that this cut down in the staffers will be done throughout the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/adobe-says-good-bye-to-680-staffers.htm</link>
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		<title>Google Moves On With Its GO Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Google has announced about its new experimental open source programming language which is called the GO language. This language is considered to be mixing the speed of any dynamic language such as Python with the safety and the performance of any of the compiled languages such as C or C++.
	The Go team, in their blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/google-moves-on-with-its-go-language.htm</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Took Care Of The Security Problems Of Office In Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	With the upgrade of Mac’s version 11.5.6, Office 2004 also gets a boost for its security. The problem with Office 2004 was that any bad person remotely using the computer could overwrite and change the memory of your computer. Also in the upgrade of Mac’s version 12.2.3, the Office 2008 gets a same kind of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/microsoft-took-care-of-the-security-problems-of-office-in-mac.htm</link>
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		<title>Twelve Failures Of Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Throughout the years, Apple has gained a lot of popularity as well as good reputation. Whatever is built by Apple, it is a must to receive success. The people have almost the religious kind of faith on Apple and its products.
	If we look at Mac operating system, for example, it is such an OS that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/twelve-failures-of-apple.htm</link>
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		<title>Enterprises Are Taking Time To Switch To Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	According to CIOs, though the consumers are moving towards the new operating system of Microsoft i.e. Windows 7, but the bigger companies are not doing so.
	There had been a SIMposium 2009 conference arranged by society for information management in Seattle. In that conference the IT leaders told that their companies are fine working with Windows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/enterprises-are-taking-time-to-switch-to-windows-7.htm</link>
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		<title>Cisco’s Big Emphasize On Collaborations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	After the launch of 61 of the new products, Cisco systems executives have been greatly emphasizing on the importance of collaboration. They said so in an event which was held in San Francisco. These 61 new products are used for the communication between the enterprise employees with one another and also with their partners.
	The CEO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/cisco%e2%80%99s-big-emphasize-on-collaborations.htm</link>
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		<title>Intel Making 2.3 Ghz Wimax Support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	After about one year wait by the operators as well as the users, Intel has now started the production of the wireless chipset it is going to make, named Kilmer Peak, which would be supporting three of the versions of the WiMax which are 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz as well as the version 3.5 GHz. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/intel-making-23-ghz-wimax-support.htm</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Has Published Exchange 2010 Money Saving Feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Microsoft has been talking greatly about the money saving characteristic of the Exchange 2010. This is the new revamp of its email applications. This had been officially released by the company at the customer conference of TechEd European of Microsoft which was held in Berlin.
	With this Exchange 2010, Microsoft is working on putting the CIOs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/microsoft-has-published-exchange-2010-money-saving-feature.htm</link>
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		<title>Agile Development Security Guidelines Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Microsoft has given some guidelines to the developers as well as for the ones who get benefits from this process of the Agile code development about building the online apps.
	These guidelines from Agile also uses the principles and rules from security development lifecycle i.e. SDL of Microsoft to Agile. The SDL is similar term for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/agile-development-security-guidelines-released.htm</link>
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		<title>Cisco&#8217;s Collaboration With 61 New Products</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Cisco systems have greatly expanded its portfolio of the collaborations. They have increased their collaboration with the announcement of 61 of the new products. These products also include the hosted email system which is corporate graded and is called Cisco webEx mail, the applications used for the social networking, the search capabilties and also the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/ciscos-collaboration-with-61-new-products.htm</link>
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		<title>Apple Making Smaller Iphone For Verizon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The analyst report, which was telling about the un-named makers of the handsets in Taiwan, has said that Apple Inc. is going to launch its smaller world mode of iPhone. This is expected to be out during the next year. This smaller iPhone will be made for the Verizon wireless, which will sell it during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/apple-making-smaller-iphone-for-verizon.htm</link>
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		<title>Jailbreaking Risks The Iphone Users</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A security researcher has said that the hijacking of the jailbroken iphones is easier. This becomes clear from the thing that the Australian phones were attacked and infected by a worm.
	The worm known as ikee, has been the first iPhone worm. The name of this worm was being approved by Charlie Miller, who himself is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/jailbreaking-risks-the-iphone-users.htm</link>
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		<title>Google Will Get Admob</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Google has been thinking of buying Admob which is a mobile advertising provider. The search giant has said that it would be buying this company for an amount of US$750M stock. Admob is a leading mobile advertising company. It has provided ads to some applications which are being run on the mobile operating system of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/google-will-get-admob.htm</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Gave Facebook A Silver light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Microsoft has said that in addition to the social platform of Facebook, the Corporation has also given the use of some of the technologies of Microsoft like silverlight and also the Windows presentation foundation (WPF) over the Microsoft SDK for Fcaebook platform.
	According to a post on the Silverlight blog of Microsoft, the company has said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/microsoft-gave-facebook-a-silver-light.htm</link>
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		<title>Epicor And The ERP Project Cost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Epicor has told about its new program that contains the cost of the ERP i.e. the Enterprise resource planning projects. These projects have been labeled with running late and also are notorious for the costs and its high budget.
	As with any other ERP implementation, Epicor is working together with its customers to define the objectives, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/epicor-and-the-erp-project-cost.htm</link>
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		<title>Objections Of EU Over Oracle&#8217;s Sun Acquisition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	EU i.e. European Commission has given a formal objection statement regarding the take over of Oracle on sun Microsystems. This has been said in the regulatory filing of Sun.
	The answer of Oracle over this statement was highly opposing. Oracle said that the position of the commission is giving a misconception about the company over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/objections-of-eu-over-oracles-sun-acquisition.htm</link>
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		<title>Linux Developer In Visual Studio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	As the product was introduced, Novell would be allowing its developers to use the visual studio platform of Microsoft. This would use Mono tools on Visual studio for supporting cross platform apps. The software development platform would be enabled for the purpose of building as well as debugging the .Net apps in order to deploy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/linux-developer-in-visual-studio.htm</link>
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		<title>European Commission Criticized Oracle’s Take Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The European commission has objected the criticism over the idea of issuing any of the formal objections over the take over of Oracle on Sun Microsystems.
	The commission, on Monday, gave one statement to both Oracle and Sun Microsystems, in which it has objected this take over, saying it will be making Oracle as the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/european-commission-criticized-oracle%e2%80%99s-take-over.htm</link>
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		<title>Some Characteristics Of Windows 7 Starter Missing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	There had been one survey published which says that Microsoft has might have deceived the limit of three applications on the edition of Windows 7 starter, but its limitations on the netbook only version of the same operating system are more prominent. These are not in much favor of the netbook buyers.
	According to the survey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/some-characteristics-of-windows-7-starter-missing.htm</link>
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		<title>A $290M Deal Between TSMC And SMIC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	There had been a case of theft of trade secrets, violation of the patent and also the breaking of the contract between Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing i.e. TSMC and the biggest chip making company of China, Semiconductor manufacturing international i.e. SMIC. The case was won by TSMC and they have decided for an out of court [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/a-290m-deal-between-tsmc-and-smic.htm</link>
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		<title>Digital Distributors And The Modern Warfare2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	If you had been thinking of getting the new Call of Duty or the Modern warfare2 games from the digital distributors then you will have to install these games and then will have to use the steam in order to run these games. It has also been reported by Gamasutra that some of the retailers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/digital-distributors-and-the-modern-warfare2.htm</link>
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		<title>No Minors Allowed On Social Networks Over Xbox 360</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A recent update about the Xbox Live console is that it will also be adding the services and facility of the social networks. The social networks may include the names like facebook, twitter and also the Last.fm. Most of the adults had been really excited about this new feature of adding up of the social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/no-minors-allowed-on-social-networks-over-xbox-360.htm</link>
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		<title>Droid Tethering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	It has been confirmed by Verizon that the customers will be able to connect their laptops with the latest smartphones of Motorola Droid by using the wireless modems of their phones. These smartphones are now on sale and the customers can easily use them to connect to the Internet through their phones. The carrier has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/droid-tethering.htm</link>
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		<title>In 2010 There Will Be No Wii HD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Micheal Pachter, who is the security analyst at the Game Trailers TV, has been saying it many times during the year 2009 that Nintendo will release a new Wii that would be HD enabled. He further said that it can be released any time in the coming year. The Game Trailers tv has also been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/in-2010-there-will-be-no-wii-hd.htm</link>
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		<title>Steve Jobs Was Given The Title Of CEO Of The Decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Fortune Company has given Steve Jobs the title of its CEO of the decade. Despite of the fact that he had been away from work for quite some time, as like for example for a liver transplant and other such problems, the company truly understands that work done by him is more appreciating and more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/steve-jobs-was-given-the-title-of-ceo-of-the-decade-2.htm</link>
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		<title>Steve Jobs Was Given The Title Of CEO Of The Decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Fortune Company has given Steve Jobs the title of its CEO of the decade. Despite of the fact that he had been away from work for quite some time, as like for example for a liver transplant and other such problems, the company truly understands that work done by him is more appreciating and more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/steve-jobs-was-given-the-title-of-ceo-of-the-decade.htm</link>
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		<title>A Free Game For You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	During some of the previous years, the comedy giant Adult Swim had been working on the Flash game front over the Internet. Their games are not only cute but are also considered to be the deadly ones. This gaming strategy has become a signature for them. They have always added some comedy aspect to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/a-free-game-for-you.htm</link>
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		<title>Mozilla’ Firefox Crash Bug Got The Fix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The programmers had introduced a crash bug for which Mozilla gave out newer version of its browser to fix that up. This had happened almost a week after Firefox had introduced its update. The company has said in the release notes which were given by the update that the versions 3.5.5 of Firefox can only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/mozilla%e2%80%99-firefox-crash-bug-got-the-fix.htm</link>
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		<title>The Old Android Devices Might Not Be Supporting Android 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	With the release of the Verizon Wireless&#8217; Droid phone, there comes first real test of potential for fragmentation with the Android. The Droid would be first phone that runs Android 2.0. After it has gone on sale, there had been the Android phones on the market which are running three of the different versions of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-old-android-devices-might-not-be-supporting-android-20.htm</link>
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		<title>Facebook And Myspace Coding Errors Have Compromised The Users&#8217; Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The social networking web sites of MySpace and Facebook have been apparently fixing their coding errors which could have allowed the attacker to access all of the data as well as the photos of the users.
	These simple coding errors of these sites have been alarming considering that extent to which the social networks have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/facebook-and-myspace-coding-errors-have-compromised-the-users-data.htm</link>
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		<title>IBM Has Announced Its New Beta Services For The Cloud Software Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	IBM has announced the beta versions of its new services aiming at those developers who want to create and deploy the applications on public as well as private clouds.
	Like the other vendors, as Skytap, IBM is also pushing the cloud services as its way for the programmers to get the access for computing power quickly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/ibm-has-announced-its-new-beta-services-for-the-cloud-software-development.htm</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 Launch Sales Were Triple Than Vista&#8217;s First Week Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A retail marketing research analyst has said that Microsoft has sold over three times more copies of the new operating system Windows 7 during the week surrounding Oct. 22 launch as compared to the sales it did for Vista during the opening days in the year 2007.

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For week of Oct. 18-24, and also including a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/windows-7-launch-sales-were-triple-than-vistas-first-week-sale.htm</link>
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		<title>The Ares Webos Tool Of Palm Has Allowed Easy App Dev</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Palm will be introducing its Web based development environment for the WebOS applications, and is called the Ares, till the end of the current year.
	Ares has got the first public demonstration at Open Mobile Summit conference which was held in San Francisco. It has been designed for making it easy for the developers to pull [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-ares-webos-tool-of-palm-has-allowed-easy-app-dev.htm</link>
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		<title>Intel Is Likely To Face The New Federal Anti-Competition Charges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	With the attorney general of New York filing the antitrust charges against Intel during this week, the industry watchers are saying that the Federal Trade Commission will be joining the fray against chip maker, probably even before end of this year. Andrew Cuomo has leveled the New York&#8217;s suit against Intel this Wednesday, and said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/intel-is-likely-to-face-the-new-federal-anti-competition-charges.htm</link>
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		<title>Google Would Be Applying The Postini Policy Technology Across The Google Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Postini technology which lets the Google Apps Premier administrators control the email environments by establishing and enforcing the usage policies, the rules as well a s the parameters would be extended to some other of the applications of the suite. In that way, the Apps Premier administrators will be gaining tighter control over how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/google-would-be-applying-the-postini-policy-technology-across-the-google-apps.htm</link>
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		<title>Eich Has Said That Javascript Is Getting Faster And Can Displace Flash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Brendan Eich who is the creator of the JavaScript has told InfoWorld that JavaScript, which is now the ubiquitous scripting language, and is popular in the client side of the Web development, has gotten faster and it could also find itself as being used instead of the Adobe Flash technology.
	Eich has said that the browser [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/eich-has-said-that-javascript-is-getting-faster-and-can-displace-flash.htm</link>
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