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In a move to compete in a broader smartphone market, Research In Motion on Tuesday rolled out BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express. The free server software wirelessly syncs BlackBerry smartphones with Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Windows Small Business Server.

RIM is giving away the software to leverage what it sees as two key market opportunities -- small businesses and consumers. With Apple's iPhone grabbing the attention of these growing smartphone audiences, RIM figures free software could help woo these demographics to its platform.

Microsoft on Tuesday patched 26 vulnerabilities in 13 security bulletins. Eleven bulletins affect Windows and two affect older versions of Microsoft Office.

Although there's plenty of attention to a critical vulnerability in DirectShow, the SMB pathname overflow vulnerability tops Joshua Talbot's list this month. Talbot is a security intelligence manager at Symantec Security Response.

Government officials continue to put pressure on U.S. technology companies to stop censorship in China. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, is joining other government officials to fight censorship in China and other countries.

Fortinet Inc. plans to go public Wednesday in an initial public offering, giving investors a chance to tap a network security provider with sales expected to grow.

If shares price at the top end of their projected range of $9 to $11, the IPO could be valued at $137.5 million, or more if the offering's underwriters exercise their overallotment options.

There is a popular saying in politics that all politics are local; and in China the same can be said about the Internet. Local players, in tune to the specific needs of the country’s “Netizens”, rule the digital space, and the numbers are staggering. Currently, the Internet in China is home to over 340 million users who are online for an average of 16 hours per week, the same amount of time they spend watching television. There are 111 million people managing a social network profile, and these numbers are growing daily.

Windows 7 escaped the monthly patching process earlier this week, but it didn't escape the notice of hackers. What some security researchers are calling the first zero-day exploit in Windows 7 has been identified and Microsoft is investigating the issue.

Security researcher Laurent Gaffié called Microsoft on the carpet for its Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) process on Wednesday. Gaffié also published proof-of-concept exploit code that he says will crash both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Microsoft filed five civil lawsuits Thursday in King County Superior Court in Seattle against alleged malvertisers. Malvertising is an industry term for malicious online advertising -- and Microsoft is moving to fight it in a first-of-its-kind suit.

Seagate Technology has taken the wraps off a new storage adapter that promises to let individuals access their digital content from any location worldwide where Internet access is available. Called the FreeAgent DockStar, the device is designed to make it a snap for users to create their own personal storage "clouds" without having to place their content on a server hosted by others.