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Linux and Mac OS are the fastest-growing operating systems
Microsoft may still dominate the operating system market, but Linux and Apple's Mac OS platforms were the fastest-growing in 2010, according to new data from Gartner. Worldwide operating system revenue totaled $30.4 billion in 2010, Gartner reported Wednesday, representing an increase of 7.8 percent from 2009. Within that overall market, Microsoft still claims the leading position, with a 78.6 percent market share. Read More

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Yahoo Hadoop spin-off could propel software's growth
Yahoo's reported plan to spin off its Hadoop engineering unit into a separate company, should it happen, could spur more competition in the already-growing field of providing support for this data processing framework, observers said. Read More

Avast finds PDF exploit invisible to antivirus programs
Criminals have started using an obscure image filter to make malicious PDF files all but invisible to many antivirus programs, Czech security firm Avast Software said. The trick involves hiding a common Adobe Reader exploit inside a PDF (Portable Document Format) file by encoding it with the JBIG2Decode filter, normally used to minimize file sizes when embedding monochrome TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) images inside PDFs. Read More

Apple, Google will testify to Senate on location tracking
Representatives from both Apple and Google will testify at a Congressional hearing next month on consumer privacy and smartphones, two U.S. senators have confirmed. Read More

Microsoft's quarter rescued by Microsoft Office
Microsoft enjoyed strong income and revenue growth for its third fiscal quarter despite sluggish PC sales, with Xbox and Office doing well, the company reported Thursday. For the quarter that ended March 31, Microsoft reported net income of $5.23 billion, up 31 percent from the same period last year. Third-quarter revenue was $16.43 billion, a jump of 13 percent. Diluted earnings came in at $0.61 per share, up 36 percent. Read More



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