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The guys over at engadet have been snooping the FCC again and this time they stumbled upon a mysterious Dell laptop which was hidden behind a confidentiality agreement, but they did notice a distinct bump on the laptops rear.

This they say matches up quite well with the Dell Latitude Z series which was leaked back in June. Testing shows 802.11b/g single chip client which means there wont be Draft-N which is somewhat disappointing.

At Dell’s request, any external images along with user manuals are being withheld until the 25th of October, so it’s not that long really before we get the full picture.

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Chrome 3.0.195.4 beta version now delivers a claimed 30% boost in V8 and SunSpider benchmarks over v2.0 which is a stable release counterpart which testing puts the speed at double that of Firefox 3.5 and 8 times faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.

Along with this speed increase there is a new redesigned tabs page whereby the user can “pin” their favourite websites to the “most visited” slots and get rid of info they don’t wish displayed.

Chrome 3.0.195.4 also delivers the 1st HTML5 capabilities along with superior multitasking and new links which are clicked on a page whilst still loading.

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9 security bulletins are scheduled by Microsoft for the 11th of August and includes 1 security bulletin for addressing a critical vulnerability which Microsoft warned was under attack, Microsoft Office Web Components.

Microsoft Office Web Components can be exploited to gain control of a venerable system as the bug lies in the Spreadsheet ActiveX control and when using IE the ActiveX control can corrupt the system state resulting in an attacker running arbitrary code.

The security bulletin covering that issue affects Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, BizTalk Server, ISAServer, and the other 4 bulletins focus on Microsoft Windows.

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There is apparently a bug in Windows 7 called “show Stopper” claims technology experts, and this bug centres on the Chkdsk exe utility in Windows machines and the word is this may well delay the release of the latest Windows OS by Microsoft.

However, Microsoft deny that this so called “show stopper” bug will delay the release of Windows 7, and put the blame squarely on the shoulders of chip set controller issues, and thus is playing down the vulnerability.

Even though Microsoft denies this bug, early users of Windows 7 have been advised to update their chip set drivers to the current driver supplied by the manufacturer of the motherboard to ensure the problem doesn’t become an issue.

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Google has now released an updated beta of their Chrome search engine, and with this new beta release there doesn’t look to be that many changes. However Google is claiming the new Chrome beta is faster than ever.

On the technical side, Google claims it has begun building HTML5 capabilities into the new beta release and includes video tag functionality and web workers.

On the cosmetic side there is a customisable new tab page and improved Omnibox and several new themes. We have a couple of videos for your viewing pleasure which can be viewed below.

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