In its monthly advance notice the weekend before the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft said it will only be addressing four security issues this time around, two dealing with Windows. But a surprisingly big Vista bug fix is under way.
If you think about it, the relative security of Windows Vista hasn't been the subject of much debate recently. If there's any problem consumers have with it, whether it's born out of market perception or real-world experience, it's a feeling that it's not all that reliable.
As Google expands its product line for mobile services, the Mountain View-based company announced BlackBerry Pearl users now have the ability to use voice search.
Specifically, users will be able to use Google Maps, getting directions or locations by voice instead of text searching.
The latest beta update to Flash Player 10 has been made available, adding performance enhancements and many community-suggested features.
Download Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta 2 for Windows from FileForum now.
You dream of seeing outcomes like this: One side asks the other, "What were we fighting about again?" The other side responds, "I don't remember." And the two shake hands and start picking up their mess. This may actually be happening.
It is perhaps the most bizarre patent licensing foray in the history of telecommunications -- so unusual that a third layer of lawsuits, filed beginning in July 2005 and extending into 2006, was literally convened to settle in court the question of what it was that the second layer of lawsuits was supposed to be about.
While many of us will be enjoying fireworks and barbeques tomorrow to help celebrate the Fourth of July, a Taiwan-based device manufacturer, Openmoko, plans to launch a new open source Linux handset that begs to be customized.
While there's no evidence yet that Openmoko's Neo Freerunner will be available through any major US carrier on a subsidized plan, the phone can be used on AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and other mobile phone services in the United States, with customers apparently able to select which network they wish to use.
When it comes to broadband Internet access in America, the gap between the "haves" and "have-nots" is widening, suggests a Pew Research report released on Wednesday called "Home Broadband Adoption 2008."
On the whole, about 55% of all Americans today have a high-speed Internet connection, up from only 47% in 2007, according to results released this week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Centercode is seeking beta testers in the New York City metropolitan area to try out a new device that serves as a portable Web browser. It works via cellular network, but comes already activated and won't require you to switch from your current phone to participate.
Beta testers will still need to have a mobile phone with active service. Those selected will be contacted over the next week to verify their shipping address and sign the testing agreement. Please note that if you are selected, you will need to keep your participation in this test very private. To apply, visit the Centercode beta callout.
In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, graphics hardware company NVidia stated defective MCP and GPU products in certain notebooks will cost the company between $150-$200 million.
Warranty, repair, return, replacement and "other consequential costs and expenses" are expected to hit the company as a result of a weak die and material set in certain "previous generation" products causing an unexpectedly high failure rate in the field.
Google has pushed out a new version of its Google Talk service for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch owners designed the service to work solely through Safari, so there are no software downloads that need to be installed.
According to a blog post late yesterday from Google mobile team software engineer Adam Connors, interested iPhone users simply head to www.google.com/talk, sign in, start chatting with friends.
From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, Mozilla indeed reached its goal of setting the record for "the single most downloaded piece of software in a single day."
"Mozilla set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours for the 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3!" a Mozilla spokesperson told BetaNews yesterday.
Although privacy advocates are up in arms, a judge's decision in the ongoing court battle between Viacom and YouTube is likely to have little or no real impact on most people who have viewed videos on YouTube.
In the US District Court for Southern New York on Wednesday, Judge Louis Stanton ruled that Google must turn over all of its YouTube viewing logs to Viacom. Specifically, Judge Stanton ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a log containing the login IDs and IP addresses of sources from which videos were downloaded, and details about those videos.
It's good to be on top of the heap, Sony discovered for perhaps a brief moment, and today gaming analysts are giving the PS3 a ray of hope for Japan. But that depends on just how carefully you slice the pie, as the market leader remains Nintendo.
Widely circulated reports attributed to Reuters, though not attributed to the Nikkei service, state that the relative ratio of sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 to Nintendo's Wii console, tightened to 1.7 : 1, during a five-week period that ended last week. In that period, the highly anticipated Konami game title Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was released in Japan exclusively for the PS3, evidently contributing to sales.
Just hours after making it publicly available, Sony has pulled the PlayStation 3's latest firmware download (v2.40) due to reports of inoperable consoles after the update process.
SCEA's director of Corporate Communication and Social Media, Patrick Seybold, played down the problem, saying that incoming calls regarding failures have been of a low volume, and the removal is only temporary.
If the manufacturer of a product acknowledges a series of potentially hazardous defects before anyone else can be hurt by them, and the solution is already available, perhaps the word "responsibility" applies in a good way.
With the Windows-based edition of Parallels Server currently in beta, Parallels announced on Wednesday that another of its virtualization servers, Virtuozzo Containers, will run on HP's high-end, Windows-based Integrity servers.
On Tuesday, Parallels' desktop virtualization software for Mac formed a key part of the launch announcement for the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA), a new group established to promote better management of Macs in multi-vendor environments.