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The Microsoft Vulnerability Research program said Wednesday that third party developers have patched less than half the bugs it reported to them over the past 12 months.

Researchers at the Black Hat conference this week said that China is becoming a hotspot for hacking activities at least partly de to easy access to malware tools.

The e-book market came of age Tuesday when Amazon trumpeted some impressive news:The online retailer is now selling more Kindle titles than hardcover books. Over the past three months, in fact, Kindle e-books have outsold hardcovers 143 to 100, the company said.

Over the past week, two separate occasions of notable developers announcing ambitious new projects have popped up. The team behind Gravity Crash is being tasked with bringing back the long-dormant Oddworld franchise, while the developers of Total War are working with Sega on the publisher’s largest-budget U.S. development ever.

Struggling to keep up with newer and more inventive rivals, number one phone maker Nokia is looking for a new CEO, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Monday.

Nokia Siemens Networks’ acquisition of most of Motorola’s cellular networks business may be the last move in a long game of consolidation in the industry, which has been hammered by price pressures.

It’s a fresh new Monday, and that means a fresh new batch of links for you. HP looks like it might be doing some with webOS after all, Wired takes a gander inside the not-so-perfect marriage of Apple and AT&T, and yes, what remainders would be complete without something about the iPhone 4’s reception? It’s the remainders for July 19, 2010.

Although a newly discovered worm could allow criminals to break into Siemens’ industrial automation systems using a default password, Siemens is telling customers to leave their passwords alone.

The recurrent technical problems that have affected Twitter for the past seven weeks have also taken a toll on developers of external applications built for the microblogging service.

EA’s annual summer showcase is a wrap down in Redwood Shores, CA (or at least at the phase where there’s no more news coming out of it). Here’s a roundup of the tidbits not quite big enough for their own news story.