Mozilla confirmed yesterday a critical vulnerability in the newest version of Firefox, and said it would plug the hole by the end of the month. Although the patch won’t be added to Firefox before next week’s Pwn2Own browser hacking challenge, researchers won’t be allowed to use the flaw, according to the contest’s organizer.
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Mozilla confirms critical Firefox bug
The barrier for using XP mode virtualization in Windows 7 just got lower.
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Windows 7’s XP mode now works on more PCs
Just a few weeks after Microsoft pulled the plug on its Windows EBS (Essential Business Server) , IBM has beefed up its own pre-integrated package for small and medium-sized businesses, called Lotus Foundations. New versions of Lotus Foundations will now include a copy of DB2 Express-C database server, said Caleb Barlow, who is IBM’s director for solutions development for small and medium-sized businesses. The addition will not raise the price of Lotus Foundations, he promised
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IBM adds DB2 to Lotus Foundations small business package
Google has patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows version of Chrome , including one that earned its finder the first $1,337 check from the company’s new bug bounty program.
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Google patches 11 vulnerabilities in Chrome days before hacking contest
If Palm’s WebOS products had gone on sale at Verizon before Motorola’s Droid, Palm’s fortunes today would be very different, the company’s CEO said Thursday during its third-quarter earnings call. “If we could have launched at Verizon prior to the Droid, I think we would have gotten the attention the Droid got. And since I believe we have a better product, I think we could have even done better,” said Jon Rubinstein, Palm’s CEO
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Palm CEO: Sprint deal prevented WebOS from making a splash on Verizon
Acknowledging the relationship between Microsoft and the open source community has been contentious, a Microsoft official Thursday nonetheless emphasized the company’s embrace of the open source paradigm, even if it was not necessarily for altruistic purposes. The presentation by Microsoft’s Stuart McKee, who holds the title of national technology officer for the United States, continued a pattern in recent years that has seen Microsoft publicly embracing the open source movement and even funding it
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Microsoft says its contentious relationship with open source is changing
Fine-grained network controls that are coming with next-generation mobile technology could make some demanding mobile applications such as video perform better but may also raise Net neutrality concerns.
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New 4G tech may heat up mobile Net neutrality debate
Security company 3Com TippingPoint has jacked up to $100,000 the prize money on offer to anyone able to hack a range of browsers and mobile devices at the forthcoming CanSecWest security conference.
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TippingPoint offers hackers $100,000 for browser and phone exploits
IBM and insurance provider Assurant Solutions have come up with a project that, in the manner of dating services like eHarmony, uses analytics to match up call center callers with the most appropriate representative.
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IBM, insurer develop ‘eHarmony for the call center’
Microsoft ’s new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will not run on Windows XP , now or when the software eventually ships, the company confirmed Tuesday.
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