Yahoo Releases Astra Open Source Library
Aug 21, 2007The Yahoo search engine's developer team today released a new Open Source program library for Flash and Flex.
more »JavaScript Security Bug in Opera
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more »Web-based Groupware Exploring web-based groupware tools
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more »Bittorrent: Closed Source and Windows Only
Aug 10, 2007Version 6.0 of the Bittorrent filesharing client will no longer be Open Source and it is currently available for Windows only.
more »Security Bug in Konqueror, Updates for Seamonkey & Co
Aug 08, 2007Following Firefox and Thunderbird, a known URL security bug was closed in the Seamonkey browser suite in August. A similar bug has now been found in Konqueror.
more »Alpha replaces Beta: Another Test Version of Firefox 3
Aug 06, 2007The seventh pre-release version of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 3 browser (codename Gran Paradiso) includes new features and several bugfixes.
more »Google Web Toolkit Creating dynamic web applications with the Google Web Toolkit
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more »New Internet Intro Exploring the New Internet
Nov 30, 2006Modern websites bear little resemblence to their legacy predecessors. We’ll show you why the new web is different and how you can benefit from the system of technologies we know collectively as Web 2.0.
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Advanced Video Coding Still Under Patent
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Linux Exempt from California’s Age Verification Law
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