Apart from this, the spending needs to cover cost of initial implementation of the technology as well as ongoing security fixes could weigh on Starbucks.
The company will continue to deliver free security fixes for the operating system beyond this cutoff date, however maintenance updates will require the purchase of extended support from Microsoft.
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Samsung Galaxy S III: Following last week's update for the Galaxy S II, T-Mobile has released an update for Samsung's current premiere smartphone that's said to bring security fixes and an "improved user experience".
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This is bad for users, who miss out on cool new features or security fixes, but also bad for developers, who are forced to develop for a lowest common denominator lest they cause their app to break.
This loose coalition of security researchers aims to produce fixes for bugs for which there are no official patches.
The new patch fixes both the original security hole named after researcher Juan Carlos Garcia Cuartango and a recently discovered variant of the problem.
But the fixes that are required for Social Security are not huge, the way they are with Medicare.
Widely distributed Android malware has exploited known security vulnerabilities in the Android operating system for which fixes from Google existed, but which the vast majority of consumer devices had not received at the time of infection.
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The early draft of the FCC panel's report called for adoption of a specific list of cybersecurity fixes, known as the 20 critical security controls, which were developed by cyber experts in concert with the National Security Agency and others.
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In between there were regular interim fixes in the OS, particularly in its security, that would take over your PC for up to half an hour.
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This means the only updates and bug fixes these products will get will be to improve security.
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