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		<title>According To Microsoft, Worms Are Infesting The Computers Worldwide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Microsoft has released a security report on Monday that warns people about the cyber crooks who are digging into the computers in a look for the weak spots in order to penetrate with the worms, which are the malicious software and steal the control or the data too.
	Rogue security software has remained as the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Droid Has Offered A Solid Competition To Iphone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The new smartphone of Motorola, dubbed Droid as in the United States and the Milestone inside Europe, might be the strongest and the biggest competitor to the iPhone of Apple as yet. This is slated to arrive in the U.S. on Nov. 6, and runs on the 3G network of Verizon and the Android operating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/droid-has-offered-a-solid-competition-to-iphone.htm</link>
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		<title>Cloud Computing Could Save Money By Eliminating The U.S. Jobs As Said By Unisys Official</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The cost savings generated with the replacement of U.S. workers with the IT persons brought from India was taken as a benefit of the private cloud computing by one Unisys official at one technical conference.
	Richard Marcello who is the president of technology, consulting, and the integration solutions at Unisys while speaking at Cloud Computing Conference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/cloud-computing-could-save-money-by-eliminating-the-us-jobs-as-said-by-unisys-official.htm</link>
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		<title>Windows Vista Has Been Rated More Secure Than Windows XP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Microsoft has released a report on Monday which shows that the Windows Vista outperforms significantly as compared to Windows XP as it comes to the enhanced security. The infection rates with Vista were considerably lower than Windows XP in the first half of the year 2009 as said in the report of the Security Intelligence.
	But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/windows-vista-has-been-rated-more-secure-than-windows-xp.htm</link>
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		<title>Arcsight Has Added An Unstructured Log Analysis With The Logger 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	ArcSight, an event management vendor, will soon be starting to sell a newer version of their product, which is designed to mine the unstructured computer log files for the signs of hacking or any kind of illegal activity.
	With the new ArcSight Logger 4 appliance of the company, the users can now also search through the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/arcsight-has-added-an-unstructured-log-analysis-with-the-logger-4.htm</link>
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		<title>Yahoo Has Donated The Traffic Server To Apache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Yahoo has started an open source version of the Traffic Server software on Monday that is serving as one high performance application server for the cloud computing services.
	The code for Traffic Server is also available as the Incubator project at the Software Foundation at Apache. In making the Traffic Server as open source, Yahoo is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/yahoo-has-donated-the-traffic-server-to-apache.htm</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Lowers The Prices Of Online Suite And Suggested Google’s Inflating The Adoption Figures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Microsoft is slashing prices of the Business Productivity Online Suite by one third as it has started this service in 15 new countries. In the promotion of the price cut and the market expansion, one of the Microsoft exec has also questioned the figures as trumpeted by Google for the rival Google Apps suite.
	BPOS includes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/microsoft-lowers-the-prices-of-online-suite-and-suggested-google%e2%80%99s-inflating-the-adoption-figures.htm</link>
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		<title>The Leaked Mass Effect Of DLC Has Planed Surface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Some of the loose lipped tipsters have potentially blown off the lid of the downloadable content plans of BioWare for the upcoming RPG Mass Effect 2. As by D&#8217;toid, the pictures were being posted that details the planned episodic content, the weapons and the armor packs and also the new downloadable characters.
	It is also listed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-leaked-mass-effect-of-dlc-has-planed-surface.htm</link>
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		<title>Sony Ericsson Has Unveiled The First Android Phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	On Tuesday Sony Ericsson has unveiled its latest X10 flagship mobile phone, and it is the first one to run on the Android operating system of Google, but it has said that it would not be going on a sale until the start of the next year.
	Android gained lot of tractions this year as the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/sony-ericsson-has-unveiled-the-first-android-phone.htm</link>
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		<title>Cisco May Not Be Pursuing A Reluctant Tandberg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Cisco Systems might be laying off its groundwork for dropping an amount of $3 billion offer for Tandberg, a videoconferencing vendor, despite of the emphasis it has been placing on video as a future of communications.
	Ned Hooper, the Cisco Chief Strategy Officer, responded to the reports in a blog post that this deal might be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/cisco-may-not-be-pursuing-a-reluctant-tandberg.htm</link>
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		<title>Oracle Now Sheds New Light On The Future Of Sun Technologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Oracle provided some new details about the plans for some of the key Sun Microsystems technologies that includes the GlassFish application server and also the NetBeans application development toolkit.
	The software giant has announced its plans to buy the Sun earlier during this year, but that deal went on hold while the European authorities were conducting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/oracle-now-sheds-new-light-on-the-future-of-sun-technologies.htm</link>
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		<title>Acer Has Posted Record Third Quarter Revenue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Acer has reported its best quarterly revenue ever on Friday, and has forecasted to have even better in the times ahead. These results come after string of the successes for the company and highlights on how far it came in a short period of time. Acer has been named the second-largest PC vendor of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/acer-has-posted-record-third-quarter-revenue.htm</link>
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		<title>ICANN Has Approved The Internationalized Internet Addresses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Starting in the mid of November, the countries and the territories will also be able to apply showing the domain names in their native languages, which is a major technical tweak for the Internet which is designed to increase the language accessibility.
	The Internet&#8217;s addressing authority has approved one Fast-Track Process for applying for the Internationalized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/icann-has-approved-the-internationalized-internet-addresses.htm</link>
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		<title>The Founders Of Pirate Bay Was Threatened With Fine If The File Sharing Site Remains Open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	According to a verdict in Stockholm District Court, the Pirate Bay, which is a file sharing site, should be closed and if it is not done so then two of the founders will have to pay up a fine of 500,000 Swedish kronor each that is equivalent to $71,500.

In the month of May, the entertainment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-founders-of-pirate-bay-was-threatened-with-fine-if-the-file-sharing-site-remains-open.htm</link>
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		<title>Facebook De-Friends Application Verification Program Is A Part Of Road Map Of The Upcoming Changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Facebook abruptly has decided to pull off the plug towards its Application Verification program which allows the external developers to pay to have the applications certified as the exceeding certain requirements.
	The company has made this announcement on Wednesday, as it has unveiled a road map of the upcoming changes for its application development platform.

	
A Facebook [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/facebook-de-friends-application-verification-program-is-a-part-of-road-map-of-the-upcoming-changes.htm</link>
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		<title>The Experts Say That The U.S. Policy Towards The Cyber Attacks Needs A New Focus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Three cyber-security experts have said on Thursday that the U.S. policies towards defending against the cyber warfare needs a different approach than the government uses against other types of attack.
	This will also be difficult for U.S. government to voice and follow with a policy of cyber deterrence, like the ones it has with the nuclear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-experts-say-that-the-us-policy-towards-the-cyber-attacks-needs-a-new-focus.htm</link>
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		<title>Is Cloud Computing A Simple Renaming Of Saas?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Is cloud computing is only a renaming of software as a service? After all, both of these involve the access of applications over Internet, with such applications that generally reside on the third-party servers.
	But the industry executives have cited subtle differences at the Software &#038; Information Industry Association (SIAA) OnDemand 2009 conference held in San [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/is-cloud-computing-a-simple-renaming-of-saas.htm</link>
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		<title>Canonical Has Updated Linux-Based Netbook Operating System With New Interface And Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Canonical has updated the Linux distribution for the netbooks, by simplifying its interface and by adding some new programs which as said by the company that will make easier for users to access as well as using the Web content.
	Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix is actually designed to run the basic Web and also the office [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/canonical-has-updated-linux-based-netbook-operating-system-with-new-interface-and-apps.htm</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Has Issued Two Security Updates, Work-Around After The Biggest Patch Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Over past few days, the company has released two of the security updates again and has also issued a work-around for Windows CryptoAPI patch which has caused the instant-messaging server of Microsoft to crash.
	Susan Bradley who is the chief technology officer with Tamiyasu, Smith, Horn and Braun has said that this is patch month which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/microsoft-has-issued-two-security-updates-work-around-after-the-biggest-patch-release.htm</link>
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		<title>China Claims Their Supercomputers To Be Among The World&#8217;s Fastest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	China has announced the fastest supercomputer yet in the country in the latest show of China’s goal to become the world leader in technology.
	The National University of Defense Technology of China, which is a military academy, has unveiled this machine which would have ranked fourth in most recent Top 500 list of fastest supercomputers of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/china-claims-their-supercomputers-to-be-among-the-worlds-fastest.htm</link>
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		<title>H1N1 Flu Can Cause Network Congestion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The officials at U.S. Government Accountability Office have weighed in the potential for clogged networks in their 71-page report; as Gartner analysts has reiterated the GAO&#8217;s concerns.
	According to the GAO, although this issue had been raised earlier too by many ISPs and network carriers, but the recent worries are focusing on the securities firms, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/h1n1-flu-can-cause-network-congestion.htm</link>
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		<title>IT Employment Is Thought To Be Stabilizing After The Loss Of 250,000 Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	According to some new data apparently the turn in U.S. economy might be putting brakes on the IT job loss freefall.
	Since last November, the IT employments have been declined by nearly 250,000 jobs, or about 6 percent, after peaking the month at 4.058 million jobs. However, only 1,100 of these jobs were lost in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/it-employment-is-thought-to-be-stabilizing-after-the-loss-of-250000-jobs.htm</link>
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		<title>Automation Key Has Reaped Benefits From Ssds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Though the storage of flash can yet be the most powerful tool for those IT administrators wanting to speed up the access to the data which is frequently used, reaping the benefits of this may need automation software which has just begun to emerge from major storage vendors.
	The flash storage devices like the solid state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/automation-key-has-reaped-benefits-from-ssds.htm</link>
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		<title>EMC Has Teamed With Intel For The Power Efficient Cloud Storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	EMC is now working with the Intel Inc. on more energy efficient version of Atmos cloud storage system of EMC that would be available during the second half of coming year, as the companies have said it on Thursday.
	Intel’s General Manager Jason Waxman told the reporters at the joint briefing with EMC that It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/emc-has-teamed-with-intel-for-the-power-efficient-cloud-storage.htm</link>
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		<title>The Navigation Of Google Does Not Spell Doom For The GPS Makers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The launch of Google Maps Navigation for the Android mobile platform has caused stock prices of the personal navigation device makers to move downwards. It is clear that the investors now fear that the free mobile service of Google, which is delivering real time and turn-by-turn voice guidance and also the automatic routing, will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-navigation-of-google-does-not-spell-doom-for-the-gps-makers.htm</link>
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		<title>Facebook Was Awarded An Amount Of $711 Million From A Convicted Spammer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Facebook was awarded with an amount of $711 million in the damages from a convicted spammer but this social networking site hopes that a separate criminal action will send him to jail eventually.
	Facebook had sued Sanford Wallace in February with Adam Arzoomanian and also Scott Shaw for allegedly getting the login credentials for the accounts. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/facebook-was-awarded-an-amount-of-711-million-from-a-convicted-spammer.htm</link>
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		<title>The ITunes Update Of Apple Has Again Blocked The Palm Pre Syncing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Apple and Palm continue playing the cat and mouse game, and now it was Apple&#8217;s turn to chase. Apple has released an iTunes software update, which once again blocks Palm Pre smartphone from syncing the DRM-free music, and the photos and videos from iTunes Store.
	iTunes 9.0.2 update of Apple is a part of its rollout [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-itunes-update-of-apple-has-again-blocked-the-palm-pre-syncing.htm</link>
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		<title>Former CEO Of Yousendit Is Charged In The Denial Of Service Attack On The Firm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Khalid Shaikh who is the former CEO of YouSendIt, is indicted by a grand jury on the four counts of mail fraud after an allegedly launching the four DoS attacks against the servers of the company, as said by the U.S. Department of Justice.
	The DOJ has said in one press release that Shaikh has allegedly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/former-ceo-of-yousendit-is-charged-in-the-denial-of-service-attack-on-the-firm.htm</link>
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		<title>According To A Survey High-Tech Hardware Spending Returns, But Not The IT Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	According to a recent research, the IT decision makers will also be investing in the hardware during the coming six months, but the high tech executives say that the staffing will remain flat because the companies are not only slowing down the pace of job cuts but are also holding off on the new hires.
	Latest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/according-to-a-survey-high-tech-hardware-spending-returns-but-not-the-it-jobs.htm</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Has Discontinued Its Accounting Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	According to one posting on the Web site of the company, Microsoft Corporation is now spiking the family of Office Accounting software and will be stopping the distribution of this product as from Nov. 16.
	According to an FAQ the product has outlived its usefulness. It states that the company continually evaluates its business strategies so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/microsoft-has-discontinued-its-accounting-software.htm</link>
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		<title>In One Year Conficker Worm Claims To Infect 7 Million Computers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Conficker worm has passed out a dubious milestone. It has infected more than 7 million of computers as estimated by security experts. The researchers at volunteer run Shadowserver Foundation have logged in the computers from more than a 7 million unique IP addresses, and found all to be infected by known variants of the Conficker.
	They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/in-one-year-conficker-worm-claims-to-infect-7-million-computers.htm</link>
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		<title>Intuit Cuts The Compensation Of CEO By About Half</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Intuit Inc. gave its CEO Brad Smith a compensation that valued at an amount of $3.6 million as according to an Associated Press calculation of figures that was disclosed in regulatory filing. This compensation was about the half of what he had earned last year, as the profit of the financial software maker took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/intuit-cuts-the-compensation-of-ceo-by-about-half.htm</link>
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		<title>The Support Firm Advises To Delay The Windows 7 Upgrade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Syracuse, a company which is N.Y. based and is for the computer support has said that the users must wait for Microsoft to fix the bugs in Windows 7 before they jump on to the new operating system.
	Josh Kaplan, the president of Rescuecom has said that from the calls they were getting, as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-support-firm-advises-to-delay-the-windows-7-upgrade.htm</link>
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		<title>Drop Dead: Novell To The City Of Los Angeles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A blog item of the Novell corporate chastises Los Angeles for selecting the Google Apps for replacing the GroupWise e-mail and also the calendaring software of Novell. While Novell might have one valid point, not many customers would be happy seeing their company named like this on the website of vendor.
	Like LA Police department and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/drop-dead-novell-to-the-city-of-los-angeles.htm</link>
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		<title>Amazon Slashed The Cloud Prices And Is Offering New Database Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Amazon is considering lowering the prices of the Web based virtual servers and has also bolstered the cloud services with new relational database and set of instances which are high memory virtual servers.
	Amazon has announced that the Elastic Compute Cloud of Amazon which is commonly known as EC2 offers its customers a wide range of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/amazon-slashed-the-cloud-prices-and-is-offering-new-database-service.htm</link>
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		<title>The SAP Earnings Are Rising As Revenue Continues To Slip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The revenues of SAP fell down during the third quarter, but the earnings rose although neither of the figures was as high as the analysts had been hoping. The company said that it had expected a decline to continue in the software and also the software related service revenue.
	The company has reported that the revenue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-sap-earnings-are-rising-as-revenue-continues-to-slip.htm</link>
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		<title>Added Resources For A Smooth Installations Of Windows 7 Operating System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	With the launch of Microsoft&#8217;s new operating system Windows 7, the corporation has also rolled out new world of software support. The installations of software giant&#8217;s flagship OS are going so smooth that Microsoft Corp. might not be getting much of the response for its new service.
	The traditional live support through the phone, e-mail and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/added-resources-for-a-smooth-installations-of-windows-7-operating-system.htm</link>
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		<title>The Shipment Of Mobile Phones Show Signs Of Improvement In Third Quarter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Mobile phone market has globally turned corner in third quarter, with the shipments as manufacturers have increased by 5.6 percent during the previous quarter, as reported by a market research firm IDC.
	These results for third quarter were still thought to be down by 6 percent from same quarter of the year 2008, but this quarter-to-quarter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-shipment-of-mobile-phones-show-signs-of-improvement-in-third-quarter.htm</link>
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		<title>The New Google Nav Service Is Android-Only Or Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The new Google Maps Navigation launch has put the company in a direct competition with the GPS makers and its former best friend, Apple. This service that can easily replace standalone GPS, is available only for the handsets that run Google&#8217;s Android operating system.
	A Google spokesperson has said in an e-mail statement that Apple is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/the-new-google-nav-service-is-android-only-or-not.htm</link>
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		<title>Beware Of Downloading The Fake Google Chrome OS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Google has recently announced that they are developing their own operating system which is based around Chrome web browser, which is named appropriately enough as Chrome OS. For past weeks there had been some rumors circulating about one leaked version that is available for download. Do not believe this hype. This leaked version is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.softpicks.net/blog/11/beware-of-downloading-the-fake-google-chrome-os.htm</link>
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