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Mozilla confirms Firefox 3.0 flaw, says risk minimal

Mozilla security chief Window Snyder (left) has confirmed the existence of a serious code execution vulnerability in the brand-new Firefox 3.0 browser.
Snyder’s confirmation follows a public warning by TippingPoint’s ZDI (Zero Day Initiative) that the flaw could lead to PC takeover hijacks if a user simply surfs to a rigged Web site with Firefox.

On the [...]

Firefox 3 Download Day!

Today’s the day, people: Firefox 3 comes out, and the Mozilla Foundation seeks to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the most downloads of a software release in one day. Time to strike a blow for all that’s good and free!

Also you may want to check out this site at Lifehacker: Power User’s [...]

Google Gears adds support for Firefox 3

Google has added support for Firefox 3 to Gears, the tool that allows web-based apps to function offline. Support for Firefox 3 was first announced on the feature list for Google Gears version 0.3, and speaking with Cnet, Google engineer Aaron Boodman confirmed that “Gears for Firefox 3, as of today, is available [...]

Time Warner tries out metered Internet access

On Thursday, new Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte, a Time Warner Cable executive told the Associated Press.

90% of Corporate Virtual World Projects Fail in 18 Months

Nine out of ten businesses that have launched virtual worlds saw them fail in 18 months or less, according to a recent research from Gartner, which faulted companies for getting hung up on the technology rather than thinking about how people use it.

“Businesses have learned some hard lessons,” says Steve Prentice, vice president and fellow [...]

Google May Run Display Advertisements With Image Search Results

Google is considering running illustrated advertisements alongside the results of Web queries for pictures, moving beyond its text-based ad business. Matching graphical-display ads with image searches “represents a large opportunity, and there’s lot of potential for advertising revenue there,” Marissa Mayer, a Google vice president, said.
Google is seeking new sources [...]

FLurry of Data Interoperability announcements…

TechCrunch has an interesting post that Google is going to launch a product called “Friend Connect” on Monday. MySpace launched Data Availability on Thursday, and yesterday Facebook Connect.
Why this flurry of activity in opening up APIs for 3rd party apps? All these initiatives will allow securely sending personal profile data, including friend lists, presence/status information, [...]

Review: Yoono: Social Life aggregator

In this social networking tools clutter, it is a pain to sift through the information that you really “may” care for. A few weeks back, I was ranting off on why I will not use twitter. And then I may feel a lot older when I get into the FB or Myspace forums. LinkedIn still [...]

Digg Does Data Portability

Social news site Digg announced today that it has added semantic markup to fields throughout its site as well as adding support for a handful of key microformats. By adding RDFa and DublinCore markup to news item pages, Digg will now make its content far more searchable by semantically aware search engines.Combined with microformats that [...]