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Bad BitDefender Update Clobbers Windows PCs 20 Mar 10, 19:30 ET PC World - Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working. more Novell rejects $2 billion Elliott Associates offer 20 Mar 10, 19:09 ET Reuters - Novell Inc spurned a $2 billion takeover offer from investment fund Elliott Associates on Saturday, calling the bid inadequate and saying it undervalued the business software maker. more Browser Choice Boosts Downloads of Opera 10.5 19 Mar 10, 17:38 ET NewsFactor - In the wake of the browser choice screen in Europe, Opera Software is reporting a dramatic uptick in browser downloads. The company said more than half the European downloads of Opera 10.50 have come directly from Microsoft's choice screen since early March. more Viridity's Power Management Tool Aims to Boost Efficiency 19 Mar 10, 17:00 ET PC World - Startup Viridity Software is releasing a new tool on Monday to help companies keep track of the power being used by each piece of IT equipment in their data centers, with a view to improving energy efficiency. more Special Guests, Android Updates, and the iPad on PCWorld Podcast 69 19 Mar 10, 17:00 ET PC World - This week on the podcast, Wired's Dylan Tweney and Brian X. Chen visit the PCWorld podcast studio for some verbal jousting over Google's Android operating system and Apple's iPad. more Microsoft Eases Windows XP Mode Requirements 19 Mar 10, 15:45 ET NewsFactor - Microsoft released a software update Thursday that eliminates some of the hardware requirements for running Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 PCs. The goal is to make it far easier for small and midsize businesses to migrate to Windows 7 while retaining access to critical legacy applications that are unable to run on machines equipped with Microsoft's latest operating system. more Windows 7 XP Mode Loses Hardware Requirement 19 Mar 10, 13:34 ET PC World - The barrier for using XP Mode virtualization in Windows 7 just got lower. Unfortunately, for millions of Windows 7 users, the barrier is still high enough to exclude them from leveraging the XP Mode functionality. more Microsoft, Adobe confident there is room for Silverlight, Flash 19 Mar 10, 07:40 ET InfoWorld - The HTML5 specification could be a game-changer in the rich Internet application realm, but representatives of Microsoft and Adobe Systems, both of which have proprietary plug-ins for Web applications, remained confident Thursday in their companies' Web strategies. more Pramati Aims to Integrate Social Networking and Business 19 Mar 10, 07:40 ET PC World - Indian product design and software company Pramati Technologies has developed a social networking environment that is integrated with enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning, and customer relationship management, a company executive said on Thursday. more On the Call: Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein 18 Mar 10, 18:50 ET AP - Palm Inc. reported disappointing sales of its smart phones, which it revamped with a brand new operating system last year. more

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