Calibre 0.6 Adds More E-Book Formats
Jul 28, 2009Developer Kovid Goyal introduced many new features in version 0.6.0 of his Calibre e-book suite. With the 0.6.1 update, he also fixed numerous bugs.
more »When Push Comes To Shove: Microsoft's EU Proposals
Jul 27, 2009Microsoft has promised the European Commission a "significant change" in attitude and publishes its proposal for the marketing of Internet Explorer in Windows 7. Additionally there's news regarding the GPL publishings.
more »Linux4Afrika Integrates Sugar Desktop and WLAN
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more »Adobe Flash Player and Reader with Critical Security Advisory
Jul 24, 2009Adobe announced a critical vulnerability for its Flash Player 9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87 and earlier, along with the authplay.dll component in its Reader and Acrobat 9.x., that goes across platforms in Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris.
more »Firefox 3.0.12 Fixes Five Critical Security Issues
Jul 23, 2009Mozilla recommends its updated Firefox 3.0.12 version for its new 3.0 series in that it removes a few critical security issues.
more »34-Nanometer Flash Solid State Drives from Intel
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more »Microsoft Releases Moodle Plugin under GPL
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more »Launchpad is Free at Last
Jul 22, 2009The developer team at the Ubuntu firm Canonical has finally released the complete source code of its hosting and collaboration tool Launchpad to the community.
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