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Microsoft has issued six security updates, fixing critical bugs in Windows components ranging from Internet Explorer to the Microsoft NetWare client service.

The service-oriented-architecture hype of the past year seems to have made believers of the most vocal skeptics. SOA has had an almost mystical aura as the saviour of IT and most stagnant business operations.

The research organizations at Hewlett-Packard and SAP AG will work together to resolve IT issues faced by their joint customers, notably around virtualization.

Around the CIO water cooler, service oriented architecture, or SOA, still has all the buzz. The idea of creating reusable service components and deploying them in applications across the enterprise is irresistible. But CIOs are also beginning to realize that SOA is not just a project with a start and an end date.

In a push to attract bloggers and techies, Amnesty International UK is offering special code tools to raise awareness about bloggers around the world who are censored or imprisoned for their writing.

Quark announced Quark Interactive Designer, a major new application that extends the capabilities of XPress 7 to the Web and beyond.

Adobe Apollo's cross-operating system runtime will provide a way for developers to build applications drawing on Adobe technologies including PDF Flash and Flex, or with JavaScript, Ajax and HTML, in a single environment.

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