Oracle (NSDQ:ORCL) issued 85 fixes in a massive Critical Patch Update, repairing a slew of vulnerabilities in both its Sun and Java product lines, many of which could enable malicious hackers to launch remote code execution attacks on users' systems.
Every April and October, Ubuntu issues a new release of their operating system, with an interesting code name. Today Ubuntu released their next major version, codenamed "Maverick Meerkat", which just so happened to be released on 10/10/10 at 10:10 UTC.
A decent Skype client is finally available for Android devices, but there's work to be done.
Skype has had a love/hate relationship with mobile devices over the last few years, such as the rise of crippled Skype Lite clients and restrictions on 3G functionality. Things seemed particularly grim when Skype ditched its Windows Mobile client which, at the time, was the only Skype Mobile client that offered access to all of Skype’s features over wifi and mobile broadband.
After almost two years in alpha, Mozilla today finally upgraded its mobile browser Fennec to beta 1 on Android and Maemo. With the upgrade to beta, it sheds the name "Fennec" altogether and grows into full-blown Firefox.
On Android, the .apk is still called Fennec and will replace the alpha installation and cute icon with a shiny new Firefox icon. In our initial runs through the beta, it does appear to be faster handling and less prone to crashing than the alpha build, but we haven't put it through its paces yet. No Earth-shattering changes so far, we'll updateif any turn up.
This is a painful article to write. I've been a longtime fan and user of what is affectionately known as PC/GEOS over the years. However, I'm fearing we're nearing the end of GEOS.
This week, President Obama reiterated his plans to strengthen the American higher education system by bolstering the nation's two-year community colleges, including new programs backed by a $35 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "The goal is to ensure that every state in the country has at least one strong partnership between a growing industry and a community college," Obama said at a meeting of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
“NoSQL”, for lack of better name, is a generic term that describes any data management system that does not use SQL as a query interface. Generally this means any data management system that is non-relational, but the term also has also been stretched as far to include the boundaries of what constitutes a data management system at all.
Adobe Systems has finally patched all reported vulnerabilities in its Reader PDF viewer, making this set this year's record vulnerability patching count.
The company has reportedly fixed all 23 vulnerabilities in its PDF viewer, of which at least one was a critical bug being exploited by web hackers for over a month, tech news site Computer World reports.
It seems the network computer is an idea that, like a zombie army, resolutely refuses to lie down and die. A discussion thread within the Enterprise Irregulars group this week started off with an observation about where Google expects to find market demand for its ChromeOS:
Trendrr, a business intelligence site, unveiled a new platform today that seeks to answer a basic question: What is the internet saying about your brand? What with the countless blogs, microblogs, news aggregators, and video sites people congregate to, filled with countless status messages, chats, posts, and tweets....How could anyone possibly get a read on it all?
