It's a 10! Microsoft skips a number, says 'Windows 10' will be a big break from the past

Free is good: No-cost Panda Software tops AV-Test's rankings of antivirus software Cisco, Oracle find dozens of their products affected by Shellshock ITworld Tonight September 30, 2014 Microsoft skips a number, says 'Windows 10' will be a big break from the past The company showed an early build of its new OS in San Francisco Tuesday. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Free is good: No-cost Panda Software tops AV-Test's rankings of antivirus software 2. Cisco, Oracle find dozens of their products affected by Shellshock 3. WIN THIS BOOK: Help Your Kids with Computer Coding 4. Mute tabs with one click in experimental versions of Chrome 5. Four charged with stealing Army helicopter training software 6. TiVo Android app now supports streaming 7. Apple Pay may make smaller banks more vulnerable 8. 4 reasons to stick with Java -- and 4 reasons to dump it 9. How to map a local folder to a drive letter in Windows Free is good: No-cost Panda Software tops AV-Test's rankings of antivirus software A number of antivirus products caught all the malware the testing lab threw at it. But only a few were free. READ MORE Cisco, Oracle find dozens of their products affected by Shellshock Cisco Systems and Oracle are hard at work identifying networking and other products in their portfolios that are affected by the critical Shellshock vulnerability. READ MORE WIN THIS BOOK: Help Your Kids with Computer Coding Take your kids from browsing to building the web with fun projects using Scratch and Python. Five will win. Enter the drawing today! READ MORE Mute tabs with one click in experimental versions of Chrome If a site is being noisy, this will make it easier to silence it. READ MORE Four charged with stealing Army helicopter training software The defendants also allegedly stole pre-release games and information on Microsoft's Xbox. READ MORE TiVo Android app now supports streaming In today's Android roundup: TiVo's Android app now supports streaming. Plus: A guide to Android for beginners, and go hands on with Nokia's offline maps for Android. READ MORE Apple Pay may make smaller banks more vulnerable Many banks with less than $50 billion in assets have a problem that payment systems like Apple Pay will make even more attractive to exploit, a team of security researchers says. READ MORE 4 reasons to stick with Java -- and 4 reasons to dump it The enterprise mainstay has proved resilient in the face of many challenges -- but just how long can it remain a top programming language? READ MORE How to map a local folder to a drive letter in Windows Usually drive letter mappings are reserved for network paths, but it can be useful for development (or even just as a shortcut) to map a local path to a drive letter. READ MORE DON'T MISS... Head-scratchers: 10 confounding programming language features Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop 15 simple, secret Windows tips and tricks to save you time Superclass: 14 of the world's best living programmers The 10 best laptops of 2014 (so far) ITWORLD GIVEAWAYS: Enter now for your chance to win! Help Your Kids with Computer Coding Take your kids from browsing to building the web. Fun projects throughout let kids start putting their computer skills into practice and build their own code using Scratch programming and Python. Enter now! Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours (Learning Lab) Quickly teach yourself to create dynamic, interactive Web pages with this interactive online course, featuring step-by-step lessons, expert video instruction, live code editing, and interactive quizzes. Enter now! Understanding Big Data Scalability (eBook) Two start-to-finish case studies walk through planning and implementation, offering practical, actionable insights for every technical professional who must scale a database tier for today's most common high-volume big data applications. Enter now! Follow ITworld You are currently subscribed to itworld_today as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER When accessing content promoted in this email, you are providing consent for your information to be shared with the sponsors of the content. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information. If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 ITworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **