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Firefox turned one year old Wednesday, marking yet another milestone for the popular open-source browser.
Since the debut of Firefox 1.0 last November, users have downloaded 106.4 million copies of the open-source Web browser, according to the Mozilla Foundation, which coordinated the development of Firefox.
Source: Dawn Kawamoto CNET News.com
And within a span of a year, Firefox has grabbed 8.65 percent of the market and put a dent into Internet Explorer's dominance, according to NetApplications' October results.
Microsoft Acquires VOIP Provider
Microsoft Corp. said today it has acquired Media-Streams.com AG, a 23-person company based in Zurich that develops business applications based on VOIP technology.
Source: Shelley Solheim - eWEEK
Microsoft plans to incorporate Media-Streams' technologies into its corporate IM platform, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server (LCS), and its Office productivity tools. Media-Streams' technology is already integrated with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange.
Net pioneers awarded top honour
Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are being awarded America's highest civilian honour.
Source: BBC NEWS
The pair will be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom along with 12 other recipients in a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday.
VOIP No Longer for the Underdog
- By Krish
- Published November 10, 2005
- Technology
- Unrated
VOIP No Longer for the Underdog
News Analysis: The telehone industry's old guard emerges as leaders of "new telephony," and they can thank federal regulations.
Source: Ben Charny - eWEEK
Internet telephony was once for underdog firms able to muster up a few hundred thousand dollars in investments. But that's not the case anymore, and perhaps federal regulations have played a large role.
Amazon looks to solve problems that stump computers
Borrowing from the sleight of hand of an 18th century Hungarian nobleman, Amazon.com has unveiled a new service that aims to leverage the power of human intelligence as a way to tackle high volumes of repeatable tasks.
Source: Daniel Terdiman CNET News.com
The service, known as Amazon Mechanical Turk, is a marketplace where developers can post small manual tasks that are part of larger software processes. Individuals who complete the tasks are paid a small fee.
HP Attempts to Flatten the Bumps on the Road to Virtualization
Q&A: HP's czar of virtualization agrees that the complexities of managing a burgeoning number of virtual machines can offset savings on resource utilization.
Source: eWEEK
Virtualization is all the rage. You've heard the estimates: Between 70 percent to 90 percent of data center resources are underutilized.
Microsoft warns of latest flaws
Microsoft warned Windows users of three critical flaws in its software and urged them to install patches.
Source: BBC NEWS
The security holes affect the way Windows handles certain graphic files.
Pieces Fall into Place for Intel-Apple
- By Krish
- Published November 10, 2005
- Technology
- Unrated
Pieces Fall into Place for Intel-Apple
Apple Computer Inc.'s plan to move to Intel Corp.'s processors appears to be coming together.
Source: John G. Spooner and Daniel Drew Turner - eWEEK
New Intel platforms are just around the corner, while Apple's Mac OS X for Intel processor machines has been brought up to speed, according to developers.
Tech firms assail proposed broadband rules
Technology firms voiced disapproval over draft broadband regulations discussed at a contentious, six-hour congressional hearing Wednesday.
Source: Anne Broache CNET News.com
Google, Microsoft, eBay, Amazon.com and InterActiveCorp representatives said in letters and statements to a U.S. House of Representatives panel that the new legislation it is preparing is too heavy-handed and favors certain technologies to the detriment of others.
Virtual property market booming
- By Krish
- Published November 10, 2005
- Technology
- Unrated
Virtual property market booming
A gamer who spent £13,700 on an island that only exists in a computer game has recouped his investment, according to the game developers.
Source: BBC NEWS
The 23-year-old gamer known as Deathifier made the money back in under a year.
Gates Memo: We've Got to Get This Services Thing Right
Microsoft's chief software architect tells Microsoft's top execs, "The next sea change is upon us." Read the full text of his memo here.
Source: Mary Jo Foley - eWEEK
On Nov. 1, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Technology Officer Ray Ozzie unveiled publicly Microsoft's Live.com services strategy. The pair previewed for press and analysts in San Francisco a number of repackaged Windows services, branded Windows Live, and previewed their intentions to roll out a parallel set of Office services next year that they will brand Office Live.
Blue Coat to cleanse encrypted traffic
New SSL decrypting feature would prevent viruses, spyware and other pests from stealthily entering a network.
Source: Joris Evers - CNET News.com
Encrypting Web traffic can protect privacy and secure transactions, but it can also provide a cover for viruses, spyware and other pests trying to get into a corporate network, according to Blue Coat Systems.
Google phishing scam promises a $400 windfall
Aims to trick unsuspecting surfers into giving up credit card data by saying they've won a $400 prize from search giant Google.
Source: Joris Evers - CNET News.com
Fraudsters are using a promise of a $400 prize from Google as bait in a new phishing scam aimed at stealing credit card data, a security experts has warned.
Crooks turn to online card fraud
Internet, phone and mail order card fraud is up sharply but overall card fraud falls, a banking body says.
Source: BBC NEWS
Card fraud via the internet, phone and mail order has leapt 29% over the past year, the Association of Payment Clearing Services (Apacs) says.
Firefox fanbase reaches new high
The open source Firefox browser is now being used by more people than ever, figures show.
Source: BBC NEWS
More than 10% of net users are going online with the Firefox browser, show figures from analysis firm One Stat.
Google's corporate-switch offer
- By Krish
- Published November 9, 2005
- Technology
- Unrated
Google's corporate-switch offer
Blog: Google said on Tuesday that it would give a free Google Mini enterprise search system to any company that replaces its existing...
Source: CNET News.com
"Given the recent turmoil with providers of legacy search solutions, there has never been a better time to upgrade your company's search to Google," said Dave Girouard, general manager of Google Enterprise.
Cognos and FileNet Agree to Integrate Products
Cognos and FileNet broaden their partnership by integrating business intelligence and business performance management software, respectively.
Source: Renee Boucher Ferguson - eWEEk
Business Intelligence software developer Cognos Inc., along with FileNet Corp., announced Tuesday an extension of their existing partnership that will include new integration points between Cognos' BI (business intelligence) software and FileNet's BPM (business performance management) software.
MashBoxx to Drive Grokster Legal
The legal file-sharing provider is buying the assets of P2P holdout Grokster and will attempt to convince users of the recently shuttered service to join its own multimedia download network.
Source: Matt Hines - eWEEk
One day after the Grokster file-sharing service announced a settlement with the recording industry and pulled the plug on its illegal peer-to-peer computing network, sources close to the company confirmed that its assets have been purchased by MashBoxx.
eEye Spots Unpatched Flaw in QuickTime
The security research outfit flags a "high-risk" code execution vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime media player.
Source: Ryan Naraine - eWEEk
Just weeks after Apple Inc. released a fix for three gaping security holes in its QuickTime media player, a private security research outfit has flagged another "high risk" flaw that remains unpatched.
Critical Windows Patch Fights Takeover Attacks
Microsoft's security bulletin issues patches for three flaws that put Windows users at risk of attacks triggered merely by viewing images.
Source: Ryan Naraine - eWEEk
The flaws could be exploited via any software that displays images, including the widely used Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer programs.
Dual-core Xeons show thirst for power
Blog: Intel has caught up to rival Advanced Micro Devices with its dual-core chips for dual-processor and four-processor servers....
Source: CNET News.com
Intel has caught up to rival Advanced Micro Devices with its dual-core chips for dual-processor and four-processor servers. But with the chips, Intel still lags AMD in one important domain: power consumption.
Microsoft Commits to Two Visual Studio Service Packs
On the heels of reports by some developers of problems with the Visual Studio 2005 code, Microsoft has gone public with its plans for new patches and fixes for its latest tool suite and for its predecessor.
Source: Mary Jo Foley - microsoft-watch
Microsoft is readying not one, but two, service packs for its Visual Studio tool suite.
EA Launches Own Digital Distribution Music Label - [Domestic]
Electronic Arts announced today a partnership with Nettwerk Music Group to launch its own digital distribution music label, called EA Recordings.
Source: Funky Zealot - Gamepro
The publishing giant will draw upon music from its games and make them available over the net as downloadable mp3s, ringtones and mastertones.
Lupper worm targets Linux systems
A worm that affects Linux systems and spreads by exploiting Web server-related vulnerabilities has been reported by anti-virus companies, but so far Linux.Plupii, which is also known as Lupper, hasn't spread much and isn't seen as much of a threat.
Source: Nancy Weil, IDG News Service, 11/08/05
The worm spreads by exploiting Web servers hosting vulnerable PHP/CGI programming language scripts, according to McAfee.