Microsoft investigates reports of new Office flaws ... Google plans worldwide developer day

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News: Microsoft investigates reports of new Office flaws
News: Google plans worldwide developer day
News: 37 Oracle security fixes coming next week
News: Get the iPhone look - on your Pocket PC
Opinion: April's coolest gadgets
ITwhirled: Top 10 tech uses for Girl Scout cookies
Podcast: Palm OS to run on Linux kernel ... Oracle readies security updates ... Yahoo signs ad deal with Viacom


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Microsoft investigates reports of new Office flaws
Security experts have discovered more vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and other software, although hackers do not appear to be exploiting them yet. The flaws have been reported just as Microsoft Corp. releases its latest round of security patches.

Google plans worldwide developer day
Google hopes to woo more developers to its Web services software platform with a 27-hour-long "Developer Day" on May 31. Topics to be covered will include developing location-based services with Google Maps, Google Earth, and SketchUp; creating mash-ups with AJAX and Google Gadgets, and developing with the Google Web Toolkit.

37 Oracle security fixes coming next week
Oracle Corp. will fix a number of products, including the Oracle Database, Application Server, and E-Business Suite, next week as it releases its quarterly batch of security patches.

Get the iPhone look - on your Pocket PC
Despite efforts by Apple Inc. to block it, a small software program that gives Microsoft Corp. Pocket PCs a user interface that looks much like the iPhone's is still available online.

HP, IBM make new plays for the SMB market
IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., in separate announcements Tuesday, each used words like "simple," "reliable" and "affordable" to describe how each of their new products serves the small-to-medium business market.

Microsoft: Vista Capable site description unchanged
Despite reports to the contrary, Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it has not changed wording at its Web site to explain more clearly how hardware with a "Windows Vista Capable" label will perform when running the OS, in light of a class-action lawsuit filed against the vendor last week.

Palm prepares Linux platform for future smartphones
Palm Inc. will unveil a platform before the end of 2007 that runs the Palm OS on top of a Linux kernel, allowing the company to improve the performance and stability of its handhelds and smartphones, CEO Ed Colligan said Tuesday.

Yahoo to serve ads to Viacom sites
Yahoo Inc.'s new search marketing system continues to gain momentum with an announcement that Viacom Inc. plans to use the system on all of its 33 Web sites.


OPINION

April's coolest gadgets
By Martyn Williams

If you're like me then no matter how many new gadgets you see some still make you say "wow" when you first see them.

This month it's an impressively small digital TV tuner that's doing the trick. It's hard to believe but the Telebit tuner card has everything you need to receive mobile digital TV all built into a little box on the end of an SDIO card.

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