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  Nokia's Windows Phone Strategy: Serious Business by Andy Patrizio

  With Windows Phone's market share in the single digits, drastic action would seem to be the order of the day, and that's exactly what Nokia is doing, according to a new report from a mobile blog.Boy Genius Reports, which is usually pretty accurate, says the Nokia Lumia 900 will be available on March 18 for just $99 with a two-year contract from AT&T. The blog is echoing what Paul Thurrott at the SuperSite for Windows reported earlier this month, except BGR claims this is through its own...

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  5 days after Microsoft voices support, Washington gets the votes to legalize same-sex marriage by Colin Neagle

  Washington's state senate has gathered enough support to make it the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage, after senator Mary Margaret Haugen announced on Monday she will cast the 25th and deciding vote in favor of the controversial bill. This comes just five days after Microsoft issued a public statement announcing that it was joining the group of Washington-based companies that had publicly endorsed the bill. Considering Microsoft is the second-largest employer in the state, one which...

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  Huge 4th Amendment Win for Privacy: Supreme Court Requires Warrant for GPS Tracking by Ms Smith

  On Monday, law enforcement suffered a big legal loss on electronic surveillance, the place where privacy, security and technology intersect and sometimes crash and burn. In the biggest Fourth Amendment and privacy case in the digital age, the U.S. Supreme Court [PDF] unanimously agreed that police needed probable-cause and a search warrant before planting a GPS tracking device to an American's vehicle. Since GPS tracking evidence helped to convict drug dealer Antoine Jones, his life sentence...

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  Analysts Claim Windows Phone Will Outsell iOS By 2015 by Marco Chiappetta

  Microsoft has been fighting an uphill battle with its Windows Phone mobile operating system since the OS’s introduction in late 2010. Despite mostly positive reviews, a healthy app ecosystem that is growing at a steady pace, and regular updates that have added more features and functionality to devices running the OS, Windows Phone as failed to win over consumers and give Microsoft any significantly foothold in the mobile space. In fact, Microsoft has lost smartphone market share since Windows...

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  DreamHost database hacked: Change your FTP/shell access and email passwords by Ms Smith

  Anonymous may have launched massive Megaupload revenge DDoS attacks against DOJ, FBI, MPAA and RIAA websites, but sadly even stating a "deep-seated moral opposition" and denouncing SOPA doesn't keep a site from being hacked. Web hosting service provider and domain name registrar DreamHost suffered a database breach on Friday and reset all 300,000 customers' FTP and shell access passwords. On January 21, DreamHost sent an email stating, "Our security systems detected the potential breach this...

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  Microsoft Reports Record Quarterly Revenue by Marco Chiappetta

  Microsoft reported its earnings today, for the quarter which ended December 21, 2011. According to the company, its quarterly revenue was $20.89 billion, a 5% increase over the same period from last year. Operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $7.99 billion, $6.62 billion, and $0.78 per share, respectively, compared to $8.17 billion, $6.63 billion and $0.77 per share, for the same period last year.“We delivered solid financial results, even as we...

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  Firesheep moment for SCADA: Hacking critical infrastructure systems now as easy as pushing a button? by Ms Smith

  Remember Firesheep . . . the addon that was so easy to use that even the clueless could successfully hack Facebook and Twitter accounts via Wi-Fi? In some scarier than your average security news, thanks to several Program Logic Controllers (PLC) exploits that were added to Metasploit today, "hacking SCADA systems can be push of a button easy," tweeted HD Moore, CSO of Rapid7 and Chief Architect of Metasploit. SCADA as in our critical infrastructure like chemical manufacturing plants or the...

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  This week in System Center 2012 by Kerrie Meyler

  As you may have heard by now, Microsoft released the release candidate of System Center 2012 on Tuesday, announced during their "Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud Virtual Event" on Tuesday. Just two days later, I see at least 112 news articles related to System Center 2012!Here's a smattering of those...

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  Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Tablet Hardware Requires by Andy Patrizio

  If you've got a bad case of insomnia, Microsoft has 943 pages of specs to bring on the shuteye. That's the size of the PDF with the set of hardware requirements for tablet manufacturers that want to sell a Windows 8 tablet.There are three PDFs total, for PCs, one for devices, and one for "filter drivers." The devices PDF, which is for tablets, is easily the largest and goes into extremely minute detail, so I'll bottom line it for you.Any Windows 8 tablet has to have five control buttons: power,...

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  Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group Turns 10 by Andy Patrizio

  It was ten years (and a week) ago that Bill Gates announced to all Microsoft employees that the company was creating a new group that wasn't designed to make a dime of money, but it would become a major player in the company.In his memo announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, Gates called upon employees across the company to fundamentally rethink their approach to product development and work to deliver much more secure products. "Today, in the developed world, we do not worry about...

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