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Net Work Michael Scalisi, PC World |

Office Live Add-In Eases Working Across Multiple Computers

If you use Microsoft Office and you frequently work from different computers, you need to check out the Office Live add-in for Office Live Workspace (currently in public beta). This free online service gives you the ability to store and share up to 5GB of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, and the Office Live add-in incorporates the ability to work with documents in the Office Live Workspace without leaving the comfort of your Microsoft Office app.

Office Live UpdateThe benefits of working with Workspace and its Office add-in are powerful. Without changing the way you work, your documents will follow you whenever you have an Internet connected computer running Office, and if you're away from your own PC, you can still access your stuff from any other machine. Additionally, Office Live Workspace makes sharing documents across the Internet trivial.

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Tech Audit Tony Bradley, PC World |

Protect Your PCs from Windows 7's Zero-Day Exploit

It was a notable accomplishment when Windows 7 was not impacted in any way by the vulnerabilities addressed in the six Security Bulletins released by Microsoft for the November Patch Tuesday. It would be even more impressive if Windows 7 proved invulnerable to the zero-day exploit that hit the next day.

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Today @ PC World Jeff Bertolucci, PC World |

Clicker Hands-On: Web Potatoes, You Need This

The Web is awash in movies and TV programs, but how do you find the really good stuff -- you know, the shows that interest you? You could browse multiple sites, including crowd-pleasers like Hulu, but that's too slow and tedious. What we need is an easy-to-use Internet programming guide, and that's what Clicker strives to be.

The site just opened to the general public after a 58-day beta period, and from what I've seen so far, it's a great resource for someone who watches movies, TV shows, documentaries, and other videos online. Clicker provides fast access to more than 400,000 full episodes of programming from some 7000 shows, according to company CEO Jim Lanzone's blog.

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Today @ PC World JR Raphael, PC World |

Windows 7 Inspired By Mac? Here's the Guy Who Said So

Windows 7 Based on Mac OS?It may be the biggest snafu Microsoft's seen since Vista. In an interview with PCR, a British trade publication, a Microsoft manager implied that Windows 7 was based on the anti-Windows itself: Mac OS X.

The manager's name is Simon Aldous. And his remarks are igniting what could become a holy war among the world's most ardent fanboys.

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Today @ PC World Jared Newman, PC World |

Why Is TomTom's iPhone App Still $100?

Apparently TomTom hasn't fully digested the memo on Google Maps Navigation, because the price for TomTom's iPhone navigation app hasn't budged at all in its latest update.

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BizFeed |

Intel Legal Woes Don't End with AMD Settlement

The fact that Intel and AMD have reached a $1.25 billion agreement and established a pact to cross-license each other's patents for the next 5 years should not come as any surprise. AMD needs the cash infusion and Intel needs...well, Intel needs AMD. Seems like a win-win.

Intel may have settled with AMD, but its not out of the legal woods just yet.Within the processor industry, Intel occupies the role of the dominant virtual monopoly---similar to the role Microsoft plays in the operating system, office productivity, and web browser markets. Intel is more or less the de facto standard for PC processors at 70 percent of the market, and AMD is a distant second with remaining 30 percent.

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Security Alert Erik Larkin |

Web Site Security Holes Make Case for Protection

Two-thirds of the sites that tend to care most about security still have serious unfixed vulnerabilities, according to an analysis from web security firm WhiteHat Security.

The statistics from WhiteHat's report, released today, cover vulnerabilities found in custom Web applications on 1,364 different Web sites. That number is only a small fraction of the number of sites online, but it represents those companies that have contracted with WhiteHat for additional security scanning, and therefore likely care more about security flaws than the average Web site.

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Today @ PC World Jacqueline Emigh |

Apple Changes App Store Review Process: Developers Cheer

Apple Changes App Store Review Process: Developers Cheer Apple may be feeling the Android heat. The company has changed the way it deals with iPhone app developers letting them now keep closer tabs on how their software is proceeding through Apple's strict App Store review process. Many see the move as yet another step by Apple to keep app store developers from defecting to competing mobile platforms - namely Android.

As first reported in Wired this week, a software developer can now see precisely when an app is "Ready for Review," "In Review," and "Ready for Sale." Before that, developers only got vague status bulletins from Apple giving the "average wait time" around finding out whether or not Apple has okayed an app.

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Today @ PC World Jared Newman |

Bing and Wolfram Alpha Together: Clever Move

Wolfram Alpha is a smart, computational take on the search engine, but its new partnership with Microsoft and its Bing search engine is even smarter.

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Hassle-Free PC |

iPhone Sync Problems? Try This

I spent the better part of yesterday trying to resolve a problem with my iPhone: After migrating iTunes to Windows 7, it wouldn't sync properly.

Specifically, iTunes would conk out about three-quarters of the way into backing up the iPhone. I literally waited hours, hoping it would eventually finish the process, but no luck.

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BizFeed Tony Bradley, PC World |

Windows 7 Copied from Mac? Don't Flatter Yourself

Windows copies Mac?It is the statement that has re-ignited the near-religious debate about whether the Windows user interface was copied from Mac. Define 'copied'. Adopting features that work is not new to Windows 7 or unique to the Windows / Mac debate--its just the way the world works.

Microsoft partner group manager Simon Aldous was quoted saying "What we've tried to do with Windows 7 - whether it's traditional format or in a touch format - is to create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics."

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Today @ PC World Ian Paul, PC World |

Bing vs. Google: Feature Wars

Bing vs. Google: Feature WarsIf you haven't noticed, Bing and Google are engaged in a tit-for-tat over which search engine has the best features.

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