Show Your Add-ons: Second Extend Firefox Contest
Jun 18, 2009The Mozilla project has put out calls for its Extend Firefox 3.5 contest. You have until October 2 to enhance the Firefox 3.5 Web experience and possibly win a MacBook and some software licenses.
more »Amazon Releases Sources for Kindle DX
Jun 18, 2009Online bookdealer Amazon has released parts of the source code for its youngest Kindle DX e-book device.
more »Open Letter to Google's Eric Schmidt Requesting HTTPS
Jun 17, 2009Google Mail, Calendar and Docs could be vulnerable. That's the argument an open letter to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt makes, thereby asking him to adopt the HTTPS standard for data transfers for these applications.
more »Wireshark's New 1.2
Jun 17, 2009Wireshark 1.2 introduces a few "new and exciting" features for its network protocol analyzer software.
more »Google Considerations: OGG Theora or H.264?
Jun 16, 2009An employee of Google has expressed himself regarding the disadvantages of OGG Theora in comparison with H.264 in a discussion on the mailing list of the web hypertext application technology working group.
more »Interactive Hooks: Apport to Improve Ubuntu Bug Tracking
Jun 15, 2009Apport immediately kicks in when an application crashes. In the future the program should be user-interactive in detecting bugs faster and more efficiently.
more »Competition Laws: Microsoft 7 without IE in Europe
Jun 15, 2009The European Commission ruling is having an affect: Microsoft will market its new operating system in Europe without Internet Explorer.
more »Python, Lua and BeanShell: Google's New Android Scripting
Jun 12, 2009The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) is under Apache 2.0 licensing and should soon have Ruby and JavaScript support.
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