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Article | 27/08/2008 Microsoft adds privacy tools to IE8

Microsoft Monday spelled out new privacy tools in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) that some have dubbed "porn mode" in a nod to the most-obvious use of a br...

Article | 27/08/2008 Mozilla garners praise over Firefox security feature

The debate over the self-signed certificate issue in Firefox 3.0 has fostered an add-on from Carnegie Mellon researchers and it seems a prevailing tid...

Article | 27/08/2008 Mozilla switches on Firefox 3.0 auto update

Mozilla triggered an automatic update to Firefox 3.0 late Monday, a week after the company said it would start offering the newest version of its brow...

Article | 26/08/2008 Mozilla Firefox browser gets security boost

Carnegie-Mellon University Monday announced it's making available a free add-on to Mozilla Firefox 3.0 that's intended to boost browser security.

Article | 26/08/2008 Microsoft to add privacy features to IE8

Microsoft on Monday described some new privacy features that will come with IE8, the next release of its browser. The features are designed to make it...

Article | 26/08/2008 Microsoft lists Windows 7 in patching tool

Microsoft has already seeded its most popular patching tool for corporate users with a reference to Windows 7, its planned successor to Windows Vista.

Article | 26/08/2008 Novell's iPrint open to attack, say researchers

Attackers can exploit bugs in Novell's iPrint application to obtain corporate information or hijack computers, security experts said today.

Article | 25/08/2008 'Eternal Sunshine' director behind Microsoft Seinfeld ad?

Michel Gondry, the innovative director of films, music videos and numerous TV commercials, is directing at least one of the TV spots starring Jerry Se...

Article | 25/08/2008 Google adds geolocation to Gears offline plug-in

Google has upgraded with a geolocation API its Gears browser plug-in, which is designed to let users work with Web-based applications when they aren't...

Article | 25/08/2008 Mozilla preps Firefox 3.0 auto update

Mozilla has said that it is preparing to offer Firefox 3.0 to users still running older versions of the open-source browser, and might trigger the upd...

Article | 22/08/2008 WSJ: Microsoft hires Seinfeld to bite Apple

Apple keeps pummeling Microsoft in its ads, and yadda yadda yadda, the world's largest software maker plans to hire comedian Jerry Seinfeld for its ne...

Article | 22/08/2008 China bans Apple for Tibet protest

Chinese authorities have blocked Apple's iTunes Music Store, apparently because 'more than 40' athletes have listened to protest songs by bands such a...

Article | 21/08/2008 Microsoft seeds WSUS with Windows 7 client

Microsoft has seeded its most popular corporate patch product with references to Windows 7, the upcoming replacement for Windows Vista, according to n...

Article | 20/08/2008 Microsoft may have 2,000 developers working on Windows 7

Microsoft's head of engineering for the Windows 7 operating system says there are 25 'feature teams' of about 100 employees each working on the upcomi...