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July 4, 2008
Developers satisfied with Apple’s enterprise work
Apple's focus over the last year or so has been largely on the iPhone, leaving Mac developers who work in the enterprise market to pretty much fend for themselves. And that seems to be just fine for companies in a newly launched Mac enterprise group and even other Mac developers.
Earlier this week Atempo, Centrify, Group Logic, LANrev
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July 4, 2008
Judge grants RIM a stay in Visto patent trial
A federal judge has agreed to put off a trial involving Visto's patent-infringement claims against Research in Motion, but limited RIM's ability to cause further delays.
The trial over mobile e-mail provider Visto's lawsuit against RIM had been set to begin next week. Visto sued RIM in 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
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July 4, 2008
Four ‘important’ Microsoft patches due Tuesday
Microsoft will release four security patches for its Windows, Exchange, and SQL products next Tuesday, all rated "important."
The Exchange and SQL flaws are "Elevation of Privilege" bugs, meaning that an attacker could theoretically exploit them to get administrative access to a PC. One of the Windows flaws is labeled a "spoofing" bug, meaning that it could help
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July 4, 2008
Top 10: Coreflood, more Microsoft-Yahoo, iPhone plans
A Trojan horse program that has been around for about six years is now being used to steal system-administrator passwords, including those at banking and brokerage houses, according to security researchers. And it could be that six years from now we'll still be talking about Microsoft's aim to buy Yahoo's search business, which could involve obtaining the entire company and breaking it apart. Meanwhile, early adopters will undoubtedly be
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July 4, 2008
Antitrust review of Google-Yahoo deal no surprise
News reports this week that the U.S. Department of Justice is formally reviewing a proposed advertising deal between Google and Yahoo came as no surprise to some tech trade groups and advocacy groups based in Washington, D.C.
A Washington Post story Wednesday saying the DOJ had launched a formal investigation of the ad deal wasn't much of a shocker
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July 4, 2008
Nvidia reports problem with laptop chips
Nvidia has uncovered a problem with some older graphics chips that shipped in "significant quantities" of laptop PCs, the company said Wednesday.
Nvidia hasn't determined the exact cause of the problem but said it relates to a packaging material used with some of its chips, as well as the thermal design of some laptops. Modern processors generate considerable
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July 4, 2008
Google gives away free Web app security scanner
Google has released for free one of its internal tools used for testing the security of Web-based applications.
Ratproxy, released under an Apache 2.0 software license, looks for a variety of coding problems in Web applications, such as errors that could allow a cross-site scripting attack or cause caching problems.
"We decided to make this tool freely available
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July 4, 2008
Critical vulnerability found in VLC Media Player
Security company Secunia has found a flaw in the VLC Media Player that could allow an attacker to gain control of someone's PC.
The problem, which Secunia ranks as "highly critical," affects version 0.8.6h on Windows. Secunia said in an advisory that version 0.8.6i should be released soon.
The flaw is an integer overflow error, which
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July 3, 2008
Update: DOJ continues antitrust scrutiny of Yahoo-Google partnership
The U.S. Department of Justice is continuing its formal antitrust investigation into the advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google, according to a department spokeswoman.
On June 12, Yahoo said it would run advertisements supplied by Google alongside search query results, a four-year deal estimated to bring Yahoo up to 0 million in revenue a year.
The Washington Post
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July 3, 2008
ISO approves PDF as an international standard
The International Organization for Standardization has approved Adobe Systems' widely used PDF (Portable Document Format) as an international standard, and is now in charge of any changes made to the specification.
The format is open and accessible to anyone as ISO 32000-1, the standards body said Wednesday. The standard is based Adobe's version 1.7 of PDF.
PDF, the
