Software-Programming

The chatter is coming at Gonzalez not over a cup of coffee or at Five Guys, but through her iPhone, on Twitter. Gonzalez, bored by some of her friends' blabbering, has quietly put a few of them on the social networking equivalent of time out. Using a $4.99 iPhone application called Twittelator Pro, the 36-year-old from Chantilly simply tapped a button that says "mute" and, voila, her friends' tweets are blocked. Best of all, they're totally oblivious that they have just been silenced.

"When I saw this feature, it was like a choir of angels coming out to greet me," Gonzalez said.

Leaked to the wild yesterday, the ROM for the upcoming T-Mobile G2 contains some exciting new components including a version of Google Voice that supports widgets. While most folks are still ooh-ing and ahh-ing over this upcoming HSPA+ handset, the Android dev community has been dissecting this leaked ROM to see what treasures they can extract.

VULNERABLE ISN'T THE WORD for Adobe's Shockwave media player that is getting a whopping big patch to cover 20 security holes.

The patches cover Adobe's Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 for both the Windows and Mac platforms and the company is rating the update as critical.
"The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker, who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities, to run malicious code on the affected system," Adobe said in a security advisory.

Android's recently released anti-piracy framework has been cracked, allowing hackers to potentially use it to pirate applications from the Android Market, and Google is blaming developers for using it incorrectly.

The License Verification Library (LVL) was launched by Google towards the end of July aimed at protecting developers against unauthorised use of their applications. But less than a month later a gaping hole has been found that screams for a skull and crossbones flag to be planted in.

With ubiquity comes a measure of uniformity -- such is the plight of the modern Web browser.

True, subtle differences in features, flexibility, and performance set some browsers ahead of the pack for particular uses. For the most part, however, sucking down text and rendering HTML, even as the breadth of computing activity in the browser has increased, make most browsing experiences similar, regardless of the frame in which you surf.

Two developments are rocking the world of Android geeks who happen to use the shiny new Droid X smartphone. First, a hacker figured out how to create a ClockworkMod recovery for the Droid X.

If you don’t know what that means, here’s the short version: The Droid X was first rooted shortly after it came out. That means users can gain root access to settings that would otherwise be unavailable — but not all settings. For instance, you couldn’t access the recovery partition. Now you can… sort of.

This week Google has released the newest version of Google Chrome web browser and the fixes included memory corruption, address bar spoofing and browser crashes. Google took to the best digital bounty hunters on the web to help find what needed fixing and the group did not disappoint while the cost of the fixes came to a cool $10,000. Digital Bounty Hunters took to the Chrome browser and the list of bugs that were found, with corresponding bounty, include;

Adobe today patched two vulnerabilities in its popular Reader PDF viewing software, including one that went public last month at the annual Black Hat security conference.

Two weeks ago, Adobe promised to fix the Black Hat vulnerability with an emergency, or "out-of-band" security update; earlier this week it set today as the release date.

Mozilla's Chris Blizzard in an interview about the rising competition by Google Chrome, the evolution of the web platform and the prospects for WebM

Adobe said today that it would patch a critical Reader vulnerability on Thursday.

Two weeks ago, Adobe had promised to fix the flaw during the week of Aug. 16 with an emergency, or "out-of-band" security update, but had not slated a specific date. Computerworld had pegged the likely release date as Aug. 17 based on past Adobe practice of issuing many of its security updates on Tuesdays.