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• Crossover Pro for Linux

  …if you do, you will find yourself installing Windows apps in a heartbeat, even if you aren’t very computer-literate. And you will see very fast load times of the Windows apps, and they will be well-protected within your safe, secure Linux operating system.

• Cloud Computing: Invented By Criminals, Secured By ???

  I was reading Reuven Cohen’s “Elastic Vapor: Life In the Cloud Blog” yesterday and he wrote an interesting piece on what is being coined “Fraud as a Service.” Basically, Reuven describes the rise of botnets as the origin of “cloud” based service

• Info-Tech: Think twice before you cut IT staff

  A study conducted by Info-Tech Research Group this summer found that IT department staff reduction, while providing short term benefits to companies, can lead to many detrimental effects in the long run.

• iTunes Opens Gates to Canadian, UK Movie Buffs

  Users in Canada and the UK have gained access to movie purchase and rental options from iTunes. The stores opened with 1,200 and 700 titles, respectively, a fraction of which are available for rent in high definition.

• Speak out against ACTA: A Threat To Free Software

  Although the proposed treaty’s title might suggest that the agreement deals only with counterfeit physical goods (such as medicines), what little information has been made available publicly by negotiating governments about the content of the treaty makes it clear that it will have a far broader scope

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• Firefox 3.1 will Have a Private Browsing Mode - Mozilla is adding a private browser feature to its forthcoming Firefox 3.1 release. Private browsing aims to help users…
• Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID - A couple of hours ago, the Google Security Team posted an article claiming that Google’s made the switch to OpenID… …But it looks like someone may have been a bit to hasty to pull that switch…
• SanDisk Claims Hundredfold Speed Boost for Flash - At WinHEC yesterday, the company introduced its Extreme FFS, which it claims will improve write performance on SSDs by a factor of 100.
• Google treats Yahoo like the girl you met at 3am - When I was in college some of the “cool dudes” used to have a contest. If you did not meet anyone at a bar or club by the time it got late, say 2 or 3am, you had the ugly girl contest…
• Clickjacking details released - It looks like some of the details on clickjacking have been finally released. There are tons of different variants of it that have different impact, and varying levels of remediation…