EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

An update to our story this morning on the seemingly low-profile upcoming Patch Tuesday from Microsoft.

If you were looking forward to a slightly easier patching session, perhaps not - Oracle has stolen Microsoft's thunder with a raft of fixes across their product suite.

The piece also has more details about the Microsoft patches to be released.

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Egan Orion | January 12, 2009

Oracle sysadmins should be hopping next Tuesday, as Oracle plans to issue a Critical Patch Update that will update "hundreds of Oracle products" with 41 security fixes.

By Staff writers | January 12, 2009

AMD has teamed with content developer OTOY to build a supercomputer that will make it possible to port high-definition content wirelessly to mobile devices.

By Staff writers | January 12, 2009

More than eighteen operators globally have announced LTE deployment plans with most set to launch in the 2011 or 2012 timeframe, according to ABI Research.

By Danny Bradbury | January 12, 2009

Software startup Widget Press has launched a point-and-click interface for iPhone application development that it said does away with the need for software coding.

By Bryan Glick | January 12, 2009

Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the IT sector fell 40 per cent in the last three months of 2008 as market confidence plummeted, according to advisory firm Icon Corporate Finance.

By Rosalie Marshall | January 12, 2009

Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo's search business may be back on the cards, according to fresh reports.

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