BlackBerry 10 L-Series Device Video Appearance

A new BlackBerry 10-powered mobile phone has made a video appearance on the web, this time coming from Mexico and said to be one of the first L-Series devices that Research In Motion might make officially available in the first quarter of the next year. Unfortunately, little is known on the handset itself, other than the fact that it is different from the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha A and Dev Alpha B smartphones that RIM has already shown to the world. The aforementioned video, which can be seen embedded above, comes as a presentation of the operating system and its upcoming features. Spanish speakers will certainly have a great time watching it. For the rest of us, images should speak for themselves, although details on the smartphone are missing, as CrackBerry notes. Have...

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Critical Windows 8 Security Flaw: Logon Passwords Stored in Plain Text

Microsoft says that Windows 8 is the most secure operating system ever, but the first critical security flaw has already been discovered. Passcape Software developers have discovered that Windows 8 stores user accounts passwords in plain text whenever the user switches to a picture password or a PIN. As you may know in case you’re a Windows 8 early adopter, the new operating system comes with two new authentication options, allowing users to log in via a picture password or a secure PIN. “The matter is that these two authentication methods are based on a regular user account. In other words, the user must first have created an account with a regular password and then optionally switch to PIN or picture password authentication....

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Microsoft Office 2013 Goes RTM, Launched in Early 2013

Microsoft has just announced that its upcoming Office version has reached the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) stage, ahead of the public debut in the first quarter of 2013. The Enterprise version of Office 2013 wolud be rolled out in the next service update, Microsoft said in a blog post, starting in November through general availability. “General availability is planned for the first quarter of 2013. Starting October 19, customers purchasing Office 2010 from local retailers or resellers will receive the new Office for free upon availability,” Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president, Microsoft Office Division, said. Office 365 will be released in two different versions in early 2013, both of which will come with a subscription-based...

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