Relaxed Flash: Blitzableiter Checks for Malicious Flash Files
Jan 07, 2010On stimulus from the German Federal Agency for Information Security (BSI), Felix "FX" Lindner of the Phenoelit hacker group investigated the security of Flash object code. The result is a free protection program with the name Blitzableiter ("lightning rod").
more »Lenovo Skylight: First Netbook with ARM CPU
Jan 06, 2010A year ago Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon platform with ARM processor at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010. Now the first real devices are coming to market. The operating system is Linux.
more »Clutter 1.1.4 Understands OpenGL Better
Jan 06, 2010On the way to GNOME 2.30 and Moblin 2.2, the Clutter project has released a new developers snapshot version of its 3D toolkit with many improved details.
more »Nexus One: Google Mobile Phone Takes Shape
Jan 06, 2010The Google search engine folks officially presented their Nexus smartphone based on Android on January 5.
more »Lars Boilesen New Chief at Opera
Jan 05, 2010Opera's CEO and founder, Jon von Tetzchner, is to take up a new strategic position in the company. New CEO will be Lars Boilesen.
more »Test Version of Opera 10.5 for Linux
Jan 05, 2010Norwegian software specialist Opera has released an early test version for Linux of its 10.5 browser.
more »Freescale Calls Up Second Generation Internet Tablets
Jan 05, 2010Freescale drums at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Just as smart, but a bigger display than the Smartphone and costing less than $200 is what the next Internet Generation of 12 to 25-year-olds wants. At least the chipmaker has a fitting idea for it.
more »First RC for Mobile Firefox Fennec
Jan 04, 2010Stuart Parmenter, responsible for Mozilla's mobile realm, has announced at the start of the new year in the Mozilla blog the first release candidate for the mobile Firefox.
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