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Office 2013 Costs Just $9.95 for Some

Microsoft added Office 2013 to the Home Use Program (HUP), which lets employees of some companies and organizations buy the new suite for $9.95. The deal had been tipped previously by several sources, including a Microsoft HUP marketing portal, which noted that promotional materials would be available to volume licensees on Jan. 17. Vanderbilt University had also told its faculty and staff that Office 2013 would be hit HUP no later than the middle of this month.

January 21, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Microsoft Launches HelpBridge App

When a disaster happens, chances are you want to get in touch with your loved ones as soon as possible, either to tell them that you’re fine or to make sure they are. To make this easier, Microsoft is launching HelpBridge, a mobile app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. HelpBridge, which is based on Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform, lets you notify your friends and family by SMS, email or a message to your Facebook wall that you are okay when a disaster happens. Those messages can include your location, too.

January 17, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Apple

Apple Releases Java 7 Update 11 for Zero-Day Flaw

A zero-day vulnerability discovered in Java last week prompted separate warnings from the US government, Apple, and Mozilla advising users not to use the software. Apple took the rare step of disabling the Java 7 plug-in on Macs where it is installed by updating its Xprotect.plist blacklist, part of the anti-malware built into OS X. Oracle released a patch for the vulnerability on Sunday and Apple released Java 7 update 11 which addresses the vulnerability.

January 16, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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General

New Chrome Browser Beta Adds voice Recognition API

Google launched the latest beta version of its Chrome browser (version 25) for the desktop and Android and this one is chock-full of new tools for developers. The most important update – and the one that Google chose to highlight – is the inclusion of the Web Speech API in Chrome. This will allow developers to integrate speech recognition into their web apps so that in the near future you’ll be able to talk apps into doing all sorts of things.

January 16, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Chrome 24 Brings Math Formatting and More

Google released the stable version of Chrome 24 yesterday, adding support for IndexedDB for apps that work better offline, mathematics formulas formatted with MathML, and faster JavaScript. The new version also comes with a range of security fixes, including two $1,000 bounties and one $4,000 bounty paid to people who found high-severity vulnerabilities. Because Chrome automatically downloads updates by default in part to patch holes as fast as possible, people just need to restart the browser to update it.

January 14, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Google Maps Web Version Returns for Windows Phone

Windows Phone users lack of access to the Google site came to light late last week. Google officials said that they had always disabled access to the Google Maps site for Windows Phone users. A number of Windows Phone users disagreed and said they believed Google began redirecting them more recently to the generic Google site when they tried to access maps. Google officials initially said that the Google Maps site wasn't working for Windows Phone users because the Internet Explorer versions that are part of Windows Phone don't use the Webkit rendering engine.

January 14, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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Mozilla Lights JavaScript Fire Under Firefox 18

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped its newest browser, Firefox 18, which sports a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple's higher-resolution Retina displays. The open-source developer also patched 28 security vulnerabilities, more than two-thirds of them marked critical, Mozilla's highest threat rating, and revoked digital certificates that were initially thought to be in the hands of cyber criminals.

January 9, 2013 Ivo Rangelov

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