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Intuit shuts Quicken Online, turns focus to Mint.com

News The maker of Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax will shut down its free Quicken Online personal finance site in six to nine months and concentrate on newly bought Mint.com [06 Nov 2009]

Fujitsu IT staff to hold three-day strike

News Unite members at the IT services company plan to strike next week over proposed cuts to jobs and pensions [06 Nov 2009]

Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale

News The VoIP company's founders will regain some control over the firm and eBay will be able to sell off a majority stake in Skype, after settling an intellectual property dispute [06 Nov 2009]

Google delivers search tool for online stores

News Commerce Search, hosted in Google's cloud, is designed for online retail sites and provides features such as customisable results and display [06 Nov 2009]

Mobile industry decides on LTE voice standard

News LTE, the successor to 3G, will use a technology based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) framework to carry voice and text messages [06 Nov 2009]

Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sites

News The temporary shutdown of the popular file-sharing site in August saw an increase in alternative torrent trackers, according to security company McAfee [03 Nov 2009]

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Zero-day flaw found in web encryption

News A security issue with underlying web encryption protocols TLS and SSL has left many authentication mechanisms open to attack, according to security researchers [05 Nov 2009]

Orange unveils iPhone tariffs, release date

News The operator has announced its tariffs for Apple's iPhone, which it will offer in competition with long-time provider O2 [02 Nov 2009]

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Baguette 'dropped by bird' causes LHC disruption

News The Large Hadron Collider was hit by crouton torpedo when a rogue piece of bread caused an electrical system failure [06 Nov 2009]

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Microsoft announces 800 more layoffs

News The latest workers to have their jobs eliminated are being notified on Wednesday, in what Microsoft said completes personnel reductions announced earlier this year [05 Nov 2009]

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Google: Data is more secure in the cloud

News A Google Apps exec compares storing data in the cloud to keeping money in a bank rather than stashing it nearby [03 Nov 2009]

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End of the line for Microsoft Office Accounting

News The software maker has announced it is ending the latest in a series of efforts to rival Intuit in the business-accounting software [02 Nov 2009]

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VirtualBox update fixes Windows 7 bugs

News The update to Sun's virtualisation testing tool takes care of compatibility problems with the Microsoft and Apple OSes, among other performance improvements [02 Nov 2009]

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