On Thursday, Opera released version 9.51. The new version fixes a few security vulnerabilities and resolves some stability issues. One of the fixes addresses an arbitrary code execution vulnerability that was not previously made public.
Current Firefox 2 users should, however, upgrade to Firefox 3, which includes antimalware protection and other security features.
Meanwhile, Mozilla released
Firefox [...]
The Intel processor pricing list was updated on August 31.
The chip has a front-side bus speed of 1333 MHz. The front-side bus carries data between the processor and other silicon.
The 45-nanometer processor has a core clock speed of 2.33GHz and 4MB of cache memory. This is a relatively small amount of cache memory [...]
Sure, I watch Battlestar Galactica whenever I can. But when I watch it, I do so on Hulu. The same is true for The Office and 30 Rock.
Instead, I use the Web for all my reading needs. I’ve hit a point in my life when I’m very interested in current world events, and what better [...]
• Europe/Middle East/Africa climbed 20 percent, to $9.8 billion.
CNET News’ Martin LaMonica contributed to this report.
• Asia-Pacific revenue increased 16 percent, to $5.3 billion.
Palmisano called the quarter “outstanding,” demonstrating that IBM’s diversified product portfolio can sell in both established and emerging markets.
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano
Annex Research financial analyst and IBM [...]
Boosting the value of the offering is the availability of $19 billion in federal stimulus funds to support conversion of clinics to electronic records management. Each physician could see as much as $44,000 through this program, which would theoretically cover the $25,000 license fee for the first physician.
Then again, perhaps it’s a good thing that [...]
Thanks to Mozilla’s pioneering work with TraceMonkey, however,
Firefox is about to become even faster. Think massive performance boost.
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How fast is that? Mozilla shows some early results of its efforts:
Today Firefox is still the province of geeks, but its increasing market share among Web developers suggests that it’s already overtaking Internet Explorer in developer affections. With [...]
“Obviously we recommend against clicking on this link, it leads to a porn Webcam portal which looks to have been designed with credit card harvesting in mind,” he wrote. “Affected users should change their password to a secure one as soon as possible.”
“It appears that there is a rash of Twitter account hijacking [...]
