Moonlight 2.0: Microsoft and Novell Loosen Agreement

Dec 21, 2009

In close collaboration with Microsoft, a Novell team behind developer Miguel de Icaza has released version 2.0 of its Silverlight clone Moonlight.

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Qt Applications as Browser Applets

Dec 21, 2009

"Qt Everywhere" is the motto of Nokia's GUI toolkit smiths. Now developer Morten Sorvig has transplanted Qt apps into the Firefox browser.

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Microsoft China Rips Off Competitor’s Code

Dec 17, 2009

Once again, Microsoft have lifted from outside sources for their own product without paying heed to license restrictions. However, this time they have taken from proprietary code.

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Microsoft and EU Resolve Browser Argument

Dec 17, 2009

Following the legal action taken by Opera, Microsoft and the EU have agreed that a separate dialogue offering a choice of alternative browsers will appear by the installation of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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Cyberthreat Forecasts for 2010: More Complex with New Targets

Dec 16, 2009

Russian security experts Kaspersky ventures a forecast for malware development in 2010 and sees new types of attacks coming our way.

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Bada: New Mobile Platform from Samsung

Dec 10, 2009

Following a rather vague announcement in November, Samsung has now released details about their open smartphone development platform bada to the Web.

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Malicious Screensaver: Malware on Gnome-Look.org

Dec 10, 2009

A screensaver from Gnome-Look.org at closer look revealed itself to be malware.

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Thunderbird 3 Provides Tabs, Better Search and Archiving

Dec 09, 2009

The carrier pigeon has arrived. After almost two and a half years in development, the new version 3 of the popular Thunderbird e-mail program is now available.

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