Dallas, TX, July 31, 2010 –(PR.com)– The partnership will give HostGee.Com customers access to the RatePoint platform and consumer approval program.

Ballmer: Making Microsoft Competitive In Tablets Is Top Of Mind Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is counting on a surge of new tablet computers based on Windows 7 and Intels upcoming ultra-low-voltage microprocessors to regain market momentum against Apples fast-selling iPad. Speaking to financial analysts at Microsofts Redmond, Wash., headquarters Thursday, Ballmer acknowledged that Apples success in the tablet market has been “one of the top issues on my mind” and that Apple has “sold more than Id like them to sell, let me be clear about that.” Last week, during its third-quarter earnings call, Apple said it had sold more than 3 million iPad devices since the product debuted April 3

Personal data of 170 million Facebook users exposed, collected, and shared without any hacking Using publicly available information on Facebook, a researcher has been able to gather personal details of nearly 170 million users of the service, or about a third of all users. The data includes names, addresses, e-mails, phone numbers, and birthdays: essentially anything that was not marked as private is now part of this file

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HP Confirms Plans for Both Windows and webOS Tablets Hewlett-Packard has confirmed it plans separate tablet computers running Microsoft’s Windows and Palm’s webOS. HP says it will use Windows for a business device and webOS for a consumer-oriented machine

FBI sought data on Defcon ’social engineering’ contest A Defcon contest that invites contestants to trick employees at U.S. corporations into revealing not-so-sensitive data has rattled some nerves.