The latest version of OpenOffice fixes several vulnerabilities that could cause a computer to become compromised by a remote attacker. OpenOffice.org has issued version 3.2, which adds a lengthy list of new features and improves the suite’s overall performance while also fixing six vulnerabilities .
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OpenOffice 3.2 fixes vulnerabilities, adds features
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), previously known as Xerox PARC, has been responsible for some of the greatest innovations in computing, including the graphical user interface and laser printing. PARC was spun out of Xerox in 2001 as an independent subsidiary and now is working on projects like content-centric networking. To find out the latest developments at PARC, InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill talked to PARC CEO Mark Bernstein late last week during the Microsoft Global High-Tech Summit 2010 event in Santa Clara, Calif.
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PARC works on content-centric networking
A loose consortium of security experts from more than 30 organizations today called on enterprises to exert more pressure on their software vendors to ensure that they use secure code development practices.
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Hold vendors liable for buggy software, security experts say
Startup ViVu has released a software plug-in for Skype that allows the popular Internet calling service to be used for multipoint videoconferencing. Skype can already be used to make voice calls between more than two parties, but the lack of multipoint video has been seen by some as its biggest shortcoming.
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Skype video goes multipoint with ViVu plug-in
The long-awaited depletion of the Internet’s primary address space came one step closer to reality today with the announcement that fewer than 10 percent of IPv4 addresses remain unallocated.
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Internet addresses expected to run out next year
The Apache Software Foundation on Tuesday is making Apache Pivot, a platform for building rich Internet applications in Java, an Apache Top-Level Project and also is releasing version 1.4 of the technology, the organization said Tuesday.
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Apache hones Java RIA effort
You know those HP Envy 13 and Envy 15 notebooks we were so excited about last year? The ones that look suspiciously like a Macbook Pro, have great hardware and design, have few flaws aside from a very big price sticker?
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HP drops prices, boosts specs of Envy 13 and 15 notebooks
There was a time when Microsoft ruled the Web, when its Internet Explorer (IE) browser enjoyed a supremacy only exceeded by its Windows operating system.
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Why Microsoft’s IE no longer rules the Web
Windows 7 , just two months on the market, is accelerating the pace of corporate computer buying, market research firm ChangeWave said.
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High Windows 7 satisfaction spurs corporate IT spending
Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior NSA (National Security Agency) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. “Microsoft has not and will not put ‘backdoors’ into Windows,” a company spokeswoman said, reacting to a Computerworld story Wednesday.
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Microsoft denies it built ‘backdoor’ in Windows 7
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