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Skype and Lync integration a 'compelling opportunity'
Microsoft is looking at creating a bridge between Lync, its enterprise IM, voice and video communications product, and Skype as part of its broader initiative to extend the Office platform, a company executive said on Wednesday.
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Accused Kelihos botmaster Andrey Sabelnikov claims innocence
Andrey Sabelnikov, the Russian programmer accused by Microsoft of creating and operating the Kelihos spam botnet, proclaimed his innocence last week.
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Ubuntu 12.04 replaces application menus with 'heads up display'
The 12.04 ?Precise Pangolin? release of Ubuntu Linux will allow users to abandon conventional application menus in favour of a ?HUD? command line from which application commands can be summoned simply by typing them.
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Robotic helpers and drones at CES pave the way for the future
The Navibot and TeleMe show where robotics could be going.
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German police GPS hacked after Trojan backfires
Last July?s shutdown of a GPS vehicle tracking system used by German police to monitor suspects has apparently been traced back to an officer?s incompetent attempt to monitor his daughter?s Internet use with a spy Trojan.
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Skype security flaw exposes user identity and filesharing habits
A Skype vulnerability which can expose the location, identity and the content a user is downloading has been discovered by researchers. Microsoft, which owns Skype, said that they are working on the problem.
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US Judge upholds investigators' access to Twitter data
A District Judge in the US has upheld an earlier order that Twitter must provide certain types of information of account holders to government investigators working on the WikiLeaks case, and declined to unseal records that could provide information on whether the prosecutors had tried to get similar information from other internet companies.
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Mozilla ships Firefox 8, patches 8 bugs and adds Twitter search
Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 8, adding Twitter search to the browser and patching eight vulnerabilities.
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US police data officer leaked by angry hackers
Hacktivists have disrupted dozens of US police websites and leaked the personal details of up to 2,000 officers, apparently in protest at the treatment meted out to supporters of the ?Occupy? protest movement.
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Researchers ID Skype users who also use BitTorrent
Entertainment companies seeking to trace people who are illegally file sharing may be interested in new research that could identify filesharers through their Skype accounts. A research team has figured out how to link online Skype users to their activity on peer-to-peer networks, a correlation that could represent a major threat to users' privacy.
