Microsoft on Friday said it is working on a fix for a vulnerability in the Server Message Block file-sharing protocol in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2 that could be used to remotely crash a computer.
The software giant had said on Wednesday that it was looking at the bug, discovered by researcher [...]

Microsoft said Friday that its inquiry confirms that a tool aimed to make it easier to load Windows 7 on a Netbook does in fact contain open-source code.
“After looking at the code in question, we are now able to confirm this was indeed the case, although it was not intentional on our part,” Microsoft’s [...]

-school dropout and Tumblr founder David Karp is doing a presentation today at the Eventoblog conference in sunny Sevilla, Spain. In one of his first slides, Karp shared some statistics about Tumblr, which appears to be growing pretty well, pretty quickly.
Last August, the Tumblr team shared some growth statistics and claimed 50 million visitors [...]

The Cliq is the first in what promises to be an avalanche of Android handsets from Motorola over the next 12 months. Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha said the company plans to release 20 smartphones by the end of 2010, most of which will be running Android. Despite being its first, the Motorola Cliq is [...]

Three of the world’s top tech firms, along with the U.S. space agency, have teamed up to develop software they hope will help organizations better prepare for, and respond to, disasters such as natural catastrophes and terrorist strikes.
Microsoft is temporarily putting aside its rivalry with Google to cooperate with the search giant on the [...]

Nokia’s N60 handsets are getting a boost in location positioning from Skyhook Wireless, which is offering a $2.99 fast location system called Maps Booster through Nokia’s Ovi app store.
Announced Friday, Maps Booster enables Nokia N60 users to pinpoint locations almost instantaneously, versus the existing location finder application that typically takes a full minute to [...]

After years of speculation and “proof of concept” devices, Dell officially unveiled its first entry into the smartphone market with an Android-powered device set for China and Brazil.
The Mini 3 smartphone is somewhat reminiscent of Apple’s iPhone with a full touchscreen interface, but Dell did not release full specifications for the device. The company [...]