Mono Project Delivers Moonlight 3.0 Preview
Saturday, February 6, 2010
From the Wolfman dept.: We have just released our first preview of Moonlight 3.0. This release contains many updates to our 3.0 support, mostly on the infrastructure level necessary to support the rest of the features. In the release: MP4 demuxer support. The demuxer is in place but there are no co.. .. read more..
iPhone App Store bars mention of Google Android
Saturday, February 6, 2010
From the Tyrell Corp. dept.: Apple has told a tiny mobile software developer that its application cannot be included in the iPhone App Store if it mentions Google Android. Flash of Genius offers a mobile app aimed at students preparing for their college entrance exams. \"Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab\" .. .. read more..
US House Overwhelmingly Passes Cybersecurity Bill
Saturday, February 6, 2010
From the One Ping Only dept.: The Caucus, a NY Times Blog, is reporting on the overwhelming majority vote (422 yeas) the House gave a new cybersecurity bill. The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act, H.R. 4061 has a number of interesting provisions. Representative Michael Arcuri, a Democrat of New York wh.. .. read more..
UK.gov tweaks open source policy small print
Saturday, February 6, 2010
From the Baby Steps dept.: The government published the latest revision to its policy today, after it brought in new measures to promote open standards and encourage the reuse of software on 25 February 2009. Measures outlined in the strategy - which took five years to be overhauled - included an e.. .. read more..
Facebook Releases HipHop for PHP
Saturday, February 6, 2010
From the Hiphp Hophp dept.: Today I\'m excited to share the project a small team of amazing people and I have been working on for the past two years; HipHop for PHP. With HipHop we\'ve reduced the CPU usage on our Web servers on average by about fifty percent, depending on the page. Less CPU means fe.. .. read more..
Facebook rewrites PHP runtime
Saturday, February 6, 2010
From the Need for Speed dept.: A week ago, I let ya\'ll know that the core PHP team had been brought to Facebook\'s main campus. That team were forced to sign NDA\'s, and taken to a very quiet, secluded meeting room where some cool new Facebook-backed open source project was described. Well, I was abl.. .. read more..
Denmark Chooses ODF Document Format
Saturday, February 6, 2010
From the Mmm Danish dept.: The winner is chosen. ODF runs the victory as public open document standard. The settlement is in place Friday morning shortly before the debate question that otherwise would have twisted the arm of the government and force through a dual solution with ODF and OOXML-stric.. .. read more..
Oracle\'s big bear hug for Java bodes really well
Saturday, February 6, 2010
From the R&D&J dept.: ...\"I don\'t think it\'s essential that we find a way to make money from [specific Sun] components,\" Ellison said Wednesday. \"We have the money to invest in Java, because Java is a very profitable business for us already. Exactly where additional revenues will come from is less .. .. read more..
Chrome apes IE8, adds clickjacking, XSS defenses
Saturday, February 6, 2010
From the Endless \"Beta\" dept.: Google yesterday announced it has added several new security features to Chrome, including two that were first popularized by rival Microsoft in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) last year. ...Of the five features, two are notable because they\'re already part of IE8, a browse.. .. read more..
Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search
Saturday, February 6, 2010
From the Revenue/Privacy dept.: ...Change #2 is changing the default search provider in Firefox to Yahoo! Note that this won\'t in any way effect the ability of a user to choose and use the search provider of their choice. It\'s literally 2 easily discoverable clicks to change this setting, a simple .. .. read more..