Mozilla has announced a new experimental project called Boot to Gecko (B2G) with the aim of developing an operating system that emphasizes standards-based Web technologies. The initial focus will be on delivering a software environment for handheld devices such as smartphones.
The browser wars are back, not least due to hectic and ever shorter release schedules, just about every other week there seems to be some new build promising that it's the faster way to get around online.
But which browser really delivers the best performance? We decided to pit the leading contenders against each other in a gruelling set of benchmarks to figure out the truth for ourselves.
Apple today updated Safari to version 5.1, patching 58 security vulnerabilities and adding several new features, including sandboxing on Mac OS X 10.7.
Safari 5.1 is the browser bundled with Lion, the operating system Apple released earlier today, but it will also run on Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard. A separate Safari update to version 5.0.6 was also issued today for users running Mac OS X 10.5, or Leopard.
In the summer, we like to take a break from all the serious open source applications that we usually cover and take a look at some apps that are just plain fun.
This year, we've updated our list of the "funnest" open source applications with more games than ever before. In fact, the 2011 list has 74 games in all, including 46 that we've never featured before. At the end, we've also included a few apps that aren't really games, but are still pretty fun.
Strangely enough, many of the patches released on quarterly Patch Tuesday cure vulnerabilities that Oracle itself created with its own faulty security products, a database security analyst told eWEEK.
In its quarterly Patch Tuesday update on July 19, Oracle released a total of 78 security patches that encompass nearly every type of product in its portfolio.
Apple has approved Google's social networking for app for the iPhone.
The Facebook-bating network unveiled recently by the search engine giant has made its first foray into the mobile arena today when it quietly appeared on the iTunes App Store. The free app has all the same functionality as its desktop-bound sibling featuring Circles, Stream and Huddle which do all the same stuff as Facebook has been doing for years.
The Wireshark developers have announced the release of versions 1.6.1 and 1.4.8 of their open source, cross-platform network protocol analyser. These maintenance and security updates address multiple vulnerabilities that could cause Wireshark to crash "by injecting a series of malformed packets onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file."
Czech security vendor Avast today launched its business protection security suite, aimed at small and medium-sized companies.
Avast! Business Protection is built on top of version 6 of its anti-virus engine, made available in its consumer offering earlier in February.
A research project being worked on for the past 18 months, Telex is markedly different from past anticensorship efforts, and we believe it has the potential to shift the balance of power in the censorship arms race.
What makes Telex different from previous approaches:
China's largest search engine, Baidu, has begun offering downloads of its new Internet browser, which boasts its own collection of 30,000" apps" that can quickly connect users to online games, videos and other tools.
A beta version of Baidu Browser was released on Monday. The browser is advertised as "simple and reliable", offering secure navigation of the Web to protect from malware. But the browser also has a "treasure house" feature, which functions like an app store.
