On Friday, the name for new version Debian 7.0 was announced. It will be called Wheezy as a penguin from the movie Toy Story 2. Since beginning of Debian, all names have been for that movie characters. For example Debian Woody 3.0, a version 3.1 Sarge, a version 4.0 is called Etch, current stable version 5.0 is named Lenny and Squeeze is the name for the version 6.0. The date of release Debian Wheezy 7.0 is not known because version 6.0 is still in a frozen state.
Skype released 5.0 Beta 2 version for Windows, which allows you to make group video calls with up to ten people at the same time. It has also a new design. The new-look Skype is sleeker, neater and crisper than before. There was added Skype Home, where you can follow your contacts' mood messages, set your profile picture and mood message, receive account notifications and learn more about using Skype."
ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, has launched the company's first iPhone application – ESET Threat Center. This application helps users to locate biggest web-based threats. One of application features are safety tips, which bring tips and tutorials on best practices in search, email, applications and more. The application can be used as additional tool to help computer users to understand and protect themselves against cyber crime.
Google has announced its own new Gmail feature called Priority Inbox, the Inbox is split into three selections: "Important and unread," "Starred" and "Everything". Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most and which messages you open and reply to. You can also change the priority of email by clicking the buttons at the top of the inbox to correctly mark messages as important or not important. Google says Priority Inbox will roll out to all Gmail users over the next week or so.
By the end of 2010 Google would be through its YouTube movie service to offer new movies that are just coming to DVD. The new service is likely to launch first in the US, but later it would be available worldwide. According to the report for Financial Times, the titles would cost $5, and would be streamed, rather than downloaded. Now YouTube offers streaming of documentary, older and less popular films.
Information about IE9 coming soon, in Russia sooner
August 26, 2010
Microsoft Russia´s press site, on August 25, posted information and a photo of their new Internet Explorer 9 interface. The site has since pulled their post, but a screenshot and information about IE 9 were grabbed. There will be a new, simplified navigation bar, some navigation tools for commonly used functions and the numerous menu items in older versions of IE have been consolidated into one.
VideoLAN, a group of developers who created free VLC media player, has released a new version 1.1.3, which repairs a memory corruption problem in the TagLib plug-in. This vulnerability was reffered to as critical in previous versions (version 0.9.0 trough 1.1.2) and an attacker could expolit it to crash the application. Other changes include updated translations for Dutch, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Sinhala.
Google Earth is meant to give its users a realistic view of the world, and the program by and large accomplishes that. A new upgrade will make it even more accurate, though, by showing users whether or not they'd be getting wet if they were to visit certain parts of the globe. Yes, Google Earth 5.2 is now supposed to account for both rain and snow - everything "from light drizzle and snow to hurricanes and blizzards," in fact - at least in some regions of North America and Europe.
Adobe flash Player 10.2 will appear later in 2010 and the big news will be the support for Stereoscopic 3D. This will result in streaming 3D material from YouTube and other online services. Adobe boasts the new version Flash Player and during a event earlier this week we got a short preview of the new Flash 3D format. The presentation showed streaming 3D video from video service YouTube, and made it quite clear that technology works, at least with NVIDIA 3D Vision that was used during the presentation.
Winamp 5.58 now officially supports WebM video. What is WebM video you ask? WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web. WebM video files play directly in your media player or web browser using a new technology called HTML5. No plug-ins are required, but you must install a web browser, or use a media player such as Winamp 5.58 (or later), that supports WebM.
Perhaps it was only a matter of time. But wireless security researchers say they have uncovered a vulnerability in the WPA2 security protocol, which is the strongest form of Wi-Fi encryption and authentication currently standardized and available. Malicious insiders can exploit the vulnerability, named "Hole 196" by the researcher who discovered it at wireless security company AirTight Networks. The moniker refers to the page of the IEEE 802.11 Standard (Revision, 2007) on which the vulnerability is buried.
Yahoo! has signed a partnership with Google in Japan, despite a 10 year-long search deal it already has in place with Microsoft’s Bing around the world. The move, which was announced in a statement along with Yahoo! Japan’s first quarter earnings, has surprised many in the technology world, as Yahoo! had its far-reaching 10 year search partnership deal approved by both the US and European authorities earlier this year.
Nearly half of Windows 7 installs are using 64-bit, despite the fact that the software industry insists on making 32-bit code. Figures just out from Microsoft show that 46 percent are using 64-bit versions of the operating system. Vista only ever managed 11 percent.
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level, provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback, and is easy for organizations to deploy a single set of updates.
Google has started testing a new "Unified Menu" in the latest developer channel (a.k.a. the Dev channel) releases of Chromium and Chrome. The new menu combines most of the options that were available in the page and wrench menus into a single item. To save space in Google's WebKit-based browsers, the updated menu uses a single line for the cut, copy and paste commands, as well as the zoom controls.
A mere two weeks after releasing the beta version, Opera Software has just announced that Opera 10.60 is now available in its final iteration. The desktop browser client, as mentioned in our earlier post, comes with geolocation (see an interactive map with downloads of the Opera browser in real time here), a fresh UI, WebM support for HTML5 video and speed improvements.
Emboldened by the (great) success enjoyed by Opera's Mini in making it onto Apple's hallowed iPhone platform, Mozilla has today submitted its own browser implement to the App Store censors. We already knew Firefox Home -- a weird sort of incomplete browser that syncs your desktop bookmarks, history, and tabs with the iPhone -- was in the works, but now we're finding the team behind it is so confident of its approval that it's already promising a guide on how to set it up once it's approved.
There's been a lot of discussion lately about whether or not the HTML5 <video> tag is going to replace Flash Player for video distribution on the web. We’ve been excited about the HTML5 effort and <video> tag for quite a while now, and most YouTube videos can now be played via our HTML5 player. This work has shown us that, while the <video> tag is a big step forward for open standards, the Adobe Flash Platform will continue to play a critical role in video distribution.
Now enabling users to populate, submit and save PDF forms, and annotate PDF files at no cost, Foxit Corporation, a leader in PDF software solutions, today announced the release of Foxit Reader 4.0, the newest version of its small, fast and feature rich PDF viewer for Microsoft Windows. The Foxit Reader 4.0 is a free alternative to other Windows software applications, now including document collaboration, commenting tools, spell checking, multi-level security and multimedia support.
Reception issues observed by new iPhone 4 owners, derided as the "Death Grip" by bloggers, appears to actually be a software issue that an iOS update is expected to resolve early next week. Clear observations of mobile signal strength and how they are affected by the placement of users' hands are difficult to perform in part because there are multiple factors involved in receiving a mobile radio link, including outside interference and the conductivity or mass of different people's hands.
