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Dell computers with Chrome OS

Dell Inc., a multinational information technology corporation that develops, sells and supports computers talked with Google over the use of the Chrome operating system on its laptops. Dell already has Android-based smartphones in China, and right now it will be releasing ChromeOS laptops in the near future. It will happen probably during a holiday 2010.

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Oracle cuts jobs

Oracle is making job cuts (mainly in Europe and Asia) related to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. When acquisition took place in 2009 , Sun announced plans to lay off 3,000 workers, or about 10 percent of its workforce. Right now we do not know how many jobs it plans to cut. An Oracle said

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Microsoft’s Income Rises

It looks like the technology industry have had their recovery. Intel, Apple, EMC and now Microsoft are announcing an income rises. Microsoft, the world?s largest software producer reported results for its third quarter which shows sales rising 6 percent.

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Henry Edward, Altair Inventor Dies Aged 68

Henry Edward Roberts, a designer of the Altair 8800, a machine which was an inspiration for Bill Gates and Paul Allen, has died aged 68. Gates and Allen (Microsoft co-founders) said in their statement “We are deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and early mentor, Ed Roberts.”

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Operating System Market Share

Microsoft sold more than 60 million copies of Windows 7 by the end of 2009. This quick growth has continued through the first quarter of 2010 and now Windows 7 has 10% market share. Windows XP dropped to 64.46 percent market share, Windows Vista to 16.01 percent, and Windows 7 jumped to 10.23 percent. Mac

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Most popular websites in Internet

Web analytics firm Compete released data for the top 50 websites in the U.S. Most shopping sites recorded a large drop in unique visitors since December 2009, tax services and travel sites are seeing very high growth rates. A complete list of top 50 websites you can find here. Below a list of top 10

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Update Your Browser!

Google will not support anymore Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 Web browser. Support for Internet Explorer 6 in Google Docs and Google Sites will end March 1, 2010. That means IE6 users who try to use Google Docs or Google Sites may find that “key functionality” don’t work correctly. To ensure the best experience and highest

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Microsoft is doing good

Microsoft announced 60 percent increase in quarterly profit, mostly because of strong sales of Windows 7. Net profit of the company came to $6.7 billion, up from $4.2 billion a year earlier.

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Security Update for Internet Explorer

The cyber attack on Google from China took place because of an error in a browser Internet Explorer. Microsoft has already released an emergency security fix. The service pack for IE6, IE7 and IE8 is available at Microsoft TechNet.

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European governments are afraid of Internet Explorer

After the cyber attack on Google from China and information that the hit was possible because of an inaccuracy in a code of a browser Internet Explorer, The German Federal Office for Information (BSI) Security warned users against using Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8 until Microsoft fixed the security hole. Today the French

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