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Under different circumstances, calling the "late 2009" iPod touch (32GB/$299, 64GB/$399) a true "third-generation" model would be easier: a look inside its casing reveals a place for a camera that, despite photographic evidence to the contrary, never made it into the final product due to last-minute technical problems. Instead, what Apple has released for the holidays is something closer to an "enhanced second-generation".

Microsoft's week was one of legal maneuvers, featuring briefs submitted by Redmond in both its patent-infringement case against i4i and the Google Book Search settlement. Despite much of its news being dominated by court proceedings, microsoft also continues to take steps in its long ramp-up to the release of Windows 7, its new operating system upon which it has pinned many of its corporate hopes. - microsoft's week could be described in one word: litigious. The ongoing patent-infringement battle against i4i, the small Canadian company that argued successfully before an East Texas court that Microsoft Word violated its X M L-related patent, entered yet another round on Sept. 8. On that da...

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yahoi writes 'Companies around the world are leaving themselves wide open to Web- and client-side attacks, according to a new report released today by the SANS Institute that includes real attack data gathered from multiple sources. SANS found that most organizations are focusing their patching efforts and vulnerability scanning on the operating system, but they're missing the boat: 60 percent of the total number of attacks occur on Web applications, and many attacks are aimed at third-party applications such as microsoft Office, and Adobe Flash and other tools. Exacerbating the problem, they're taking twice as long to patch microsoft office and other applications than to patch their operating systems.' of this story at Slashdot.

WARM3CH writes 'AnandTech tested battery life of a laptop with an AMD CPU, a laptop with an Intel CPU and netbook running internet explorer 8, Opera 10, Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, and Chrome. Webpages were a combination of simple and flash infested ones. IE8 had the best battery life on both laptops followed by FF+adblock and Safari had the worst battery life. On the netbook Chrome was slightly ahead of IE8. The report concludes: 'Overall, Internet Explorer and Firefox + AdBlock consistently place near the top, with Chrome following closely behind. Opera 10 Beta 3 didn't do as well as Opera 9.6.4, and in a couple quick tests it doesn't appear that the final release of Opera 10 changes the situation at all. Opera in general — version 9 or 10 — looks like it doesn't do as well as the other major browsers. Safari is at the back, by a large margin on all three test notebooks. We suspect that Safari 4 does better under OS X, however, so the poor Windows result probably won't matter