Video chatting has made its way to Skype's Android app, the VoIP provider announced today.
Video is extremely important in the Skype ecosystem. At any given time, there are 30 million concurrent users on Skype, according to Skype vice president and general manager of product and marketing, Neil Stevens. At its peak, Skype sees 500,000 simultaneous video calls across its service.
InstantBird is a cross platform, open source, instant messaging client which has just reached version 1.0. The GPLv2 licensed InstantBird runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and is based upon libpurple and code from various Mozilla projects. It has been in development since 2007, when it began life as an "XUL UI for Pidgin".
Opera has released version 11.50 of its desktop Web browser. The significant update introduces Opera's new "featherweight" user interface and brings a number of other new features and performance improvements.
The Joomla! developers have released version 1.6.4 of their open source content management system (CMS), a maintenance and security update to the 1.6 branch. The latest version addresses a total of four security vulnerabilities.
A group of public and private-sector organizations have teamed up to create a new risk analysis framework and scoring system aimed at helping developers and consumers improve the security of their software.
I was talking last week to my friend HD Moore who founded and leads the development team for Metasploit at Rapid7. He told me about yet another open source project that Rapid7 has been supporting with financial and engineering support. The venerable John-the-Ripper password cracking project has been the receipient of support from Rapid7 for about a year now, culminating in the latest release which was recently announced.
Google has introduced NativeDriver, a testing framework for native Android applications modelled on its web testing WebDriver framework; the company says it has an iPad/iPhone version on the way and is prototyping a Windows version.
Half of businesses have suffered at least one business critical IT failure as a result of installing a bad software patch, according to GFI Software.
The research also revealed that a quarter of those surveyed suffer recurring IT failures and lost productivity resulting from software bugs and incompatibilities introduced by badly developed software updates.
Google has released an experimental extension for its Chrome browser that developers can use to scan their Web applications and flag code that could make them vulnerable to malware attacks.
The free tool, called DOM Snitch, is designed to sniff out potential security holes in Web applications' client-side code that could be exploited by attacks such as client-side scripting, Google said on Tuesday.
The Mozilla Project has published updates for Firefox, its open source web browser, and the Thunderbird email client to fix several bugs and other critical issues found in previous versions. The latest Firefox 5 rapid release update addresses a total of 8 security vulnerabilities, 5 of which are rated as "Critical" by Mozilla.
