03.24.06
Posted in Firefox info at 8:27 am by tojan3
A woman scorned has attacked Mozilla developers for failing to patch a ‘security bug’ in Firefox that revealed her partner-to-be was snooping adult websites.
In an online posting, the unknown female said a ‘privacy flaw’ in the browser’s Password Manager is responsible for ending her five-year relationship and pending engagement.
Her discovery came when the IE7 user logged onto her separate XP account and decided to switch to Firefox, wooed by its tales of greater speed and stability.
Clicking Options, Privacy and then …
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Posted in Microsoft at 6:06 am by tojan3
Exploit(s) Released for Unpatched IE Flaw Security experts are warning that at least one set of instructions showing bad guys how to exploit an unpatched security hole in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser have been posted online, and that malicious Web sites are likely to begin using the blueprints to install spyware and other unwanted junk on visitors’ Windows computers. Microsoft acknowledged the previously undisclosed flaw in a blog posting earlier this week, in which it urged users …
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03.23.06
Posted in Firefox info at 10:45 am by tojan3
An alpha version of the Firefox 2.0 browser has been posted on Mozilla’s web site, offering early adopters an opportunity to testdrive the forthcoming version.
While the next version - codenamed Bon Echo – was available for download, the open-source Mozilla organisation responsible for the browser was quick to point out it was not ready for release yet.
Versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are available, but being an alpha it is subject to instabilities. According to …
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03.22.06
Posted in Firefox info at 6:18 am by tojan3
The Mozilla Foundation is close to releasing the first alpha edition of the next Firefox, the group’s Web site announced, with a Tuesday unveiling likely.
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03.14.06
Posted in Google at 9:15 am by tojan3
Firefox 1.5, the first major upgrade to the Mozilla Foundation’s Latest News about Mozilla Foundation popular open source Get Linux or Windows Managed Hosting Services with Industry Leading Fanatical Support. Latest News about open source browser in a year, brings new features and increased speed, making what was a very good product even better.
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03.08.06
Posted in Google at 10:54 am by tojan3
Let’s start with a little bit of history. The concept of storing your very important and precious data online is nothing new. There are already several companies which, for a monthly or annual fee, rent you a certain number of MB in order for you to save those essential data that you don’t want to lose if your personal computer begins to malfunction. Thus, the GDrive, an online storage service offered by Google, doesn’t really incite our imaginations due …
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03.07.06
Posted in Google at 1:37 pm by tojan3
Google GDrive is not a rumor
Posted by Garett Rogers @ 9:37 am
An interesting article by Greg Lindon points to some slide comments from Google’s Analyst Day Power Point presentation last week. The presentation was removed from Google’s website but the text is still available in Greg’s post. These notes clearly state efforts have been put towards “infinite storage” in terms of GDrive. In September I ran across compelling evidence that suggests a product by this name was either in …
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Posted in Press, Google at 1:34 pm by tojan3
Proposals accidentally leaked on Google’s website reveal the firm is thinking about providing online disk space in a service dubbed GDrive.
Reuters reported that a presentation file produced by Google executives was accidentally posted on the site. It reveals that the GDrive would allow users to store their all of their files within the space.
Executive Eric Schmidt wrote that the company would aim to store ‘100 per cent …
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03.03.06
Posted in Press at 9:34 am by tojan3
An attempt to bring Firefox-style tabbed browsing of e-mail messages to the upcoming version 2.0 of Mozila’s Thunderbird e-mail client has come to a standstill.ZDNet Australia revealed in December last year that tabbed browsing — one of the most popular features of the Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer 7 Web browsers — had been developed for Thunderbird by software developer Myk Melez.
But work on that …
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Posted in Google at 4:22 am by tojan3
The search giant is to try and make inroads into the treacherous SME search market by selling a box designed to be plugged into a company’s intranet and be used for searches of up to 50,000 documents Google on Thursday began selling the Google Mini, a low-price box for corporate intranet search, in a move to diversify its business.
With the new product, the Mountain View, California-based company hopes …
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Posted in Misc at 4:13 am by tojan3
AMD subpoenas Skype over VoIP deal with Intel
2nd March 2006
By Rhonda Ascierto
Advanced Micro Devices Inc has served Skype Technologies SA a subpoena demanding documentation relating to a new Skype feature for Intel-only machines, as part of its ongoing antitrust case against Intel Corp.The new feature in Skype 2.0 enables 10-way voice conference calls only on machines powered with Intel dual-core processors. For users of all other computers, the maximum number of people they can host on a Skype conference …
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Posted in Misc at 4:13 am by tojan3
AMD subpoenas Skype over VoIP deal with Intel
2nd March 2006
By Rhonda Ascierto
Advanced Micro Devices Inc has served Skype Technologies SA a subpoena demanding documentation relating to a new Skype feature for Intel-only machines, as part of its ongoing antitrust case against Intel Corp.The new feature in Skype 2.0 enables 10-way voice conference calls only on machines powered with Intel dual-core processors. For users of all other computers, the maximum number of people they can host on a Skype conference …
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03.02.06
Posted in Google at 11:03 am by tojan3
Just Ask: the search market has far to go
Can you teach an old search engine new tricks? At a time when search has become almost synonymous with Google this is a tall order - but Ask.com is having a go. This week, it re-invented itself with a digital striptease, shedding baggage such as intrusive advertising, cluttered desktops, links aimed at raising money rather than informing and even its former name, Ask Jeeves. The aim? To go …
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Posted in Google, Microsoft at 4:01 am by tojan3
By David Lawsky
PARIS (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will introduce a search engine better than Google (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday.
“What we’re saying is that in six months’ time we’ll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google,” said Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
“The quality …
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Posted in Microsoft at 3:51 am by tojan3
Can someone who doesn’t even know how to read or write use a computer? Microsoft Corp. is probing that question at a research lab in India.
Working with a local advocacy group, Microsoft has developed a prototype of a system that would connect illiterate domestic workers in India with families seeking their services. The system uses pictures, video and voice commands to tell women what jobs are available, how much the jobs pay and where they are.
The goal is to help …
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