AVG 9.0 security suite makes its debut
The digital threat terminators at AVG Technologies have today proudly announced the release of their latest internet security solution, AVG 9.0. AVG 9.0 comes with a faster anti-virus/anti-spyware scanner, lower boot time and memory usage, as well as the integration between the Resident Shield, firewall, and identity protection modules. This enables the modules to share malware information with each other, increasing the software's ability to detect and remove most malicious types of malware, rootkits, and ID Theft threats.
Resident Shield features a new design that makes it "quieter and less intrusive" than its predecessors, while LinkScanner boasts improvements that enable even better anti-phishing detection.
"AVG 9.0 will provide home computer users with a more powerful and more streamlined solution that adds protection without impacting user experience, taking us back to our core strength of low impact, high performance security," said J.R. Smith, CEO, AVG Technologies. "We've always believed that everyone has the right to a safe online experience. With AVG 9.0, we are providing first-class assistance to our users in their development of tools and measures for their safety from all of the threats posed by cybercriminals and identity thieves, whether they're working, playing, banking or shopping on the web."
Currently you can get the AVG 9.0 paid line-up of products via this page but AVG Free 9.0 is also coming and will make its debut at the middle of the month.
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Red Hat bring supreme court's attention to software patent failures
Red Hat has called now on the United States Supreme Court in an effort to entirely ban software patents, which they feel completely stifles the industry, and leave developers open to clear exploitation, in particular from larger corporations.
"Red Hat continues its commitment to the free and open-source software community by taking a strong position against bad software patents," said Rob Tiller, vice president and assistant general counsel for intellectual property at Red Hat. "Our patent system is supposed to foster innovation but, for open source and software in general, it does the opposite. Software patents form a minefield that slows and discourages software innovation. The Bilski case presents a great opportunity for the Supreme Court to rectify this problem."
The company is arguing that exploits in the current legal system are causing lawsuits to abuse the confusion over hundreds of thousands of patent that simply, as Tiller explains, "cover abstract technology in vague and difficult-to-interpret terms".
This in turn, as you can imagine leaves developers that dare to innovate in a position of "weak but costly patent infringement lawsuits".
He closes in saying that "The scope of patentable subject matter is an issue of critical importance to the future development of all software, including open source".
Whether the supreme court will accept this addition to the Bilski case is yet unknown, but if it does this could mean the start or some pretty interesting closed and open source software developments - particularly from smaller companies - over the next few years.
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Ballmer rules out plans for search engine takeovers
Steve Ballmer told Reuters this morning that he would not expect Microsoft to make any search engine acquisitions in the challenge against Google's dominating internet presence.
"You'll continue to see us work hard and invest in the marketing and the like, and of course we're trying to get the Yahoo deal through regulatory," he said after giving a talk at the UK's CBI business lobby today.
Ballmer told the audience that Microsoft is now freezing its research and development budget at $9.5 billion (of course, still at the top of the entire industry), but so that they can keep their resources in check for the future.
"Let's make sure we keep the money we need to continue to establish us in new businesses," he said. "We're trying to give Google a little competition in the search business."
Earlier this year Microsoft signed 10-year deal with Yahoo, through which its young Bing search engine will power queries on Yahoo's sites. In return, Microsoft will pay Yahoo 88 percent of revenue from advertisements generated from those sites. This would, in theory mean that Microsoft gets more traffic to refine its search technology and build up its ad base, while Yahoo gets revenue from search ads without the expense of managing its own search engine - both parties benefit nicely.
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Toshiba-Fujitsu HDD deal done, Toshiba Storage Device Corp. formed
Toshiba has now officially taken over Fujitsu's hard drive division, and the company has been re-branded and integrated into the Toshiba Storage Device Corporation (or as they describe it, the TSDC).
The deal was arranged at the end of Q1 and signed off at the start of Q2 this year. In fact, Toshiba didn't pay a cent for the piece of Fujitsu pie, but they did take on a massive $60 million worth of debt from previous operating losses.
Now that all the paperwork is done, dusted and finalized, Fujitsu will still hold onto a little over 15% of the business, while Toshiba fully train and integrate their staff and executives to manage the new TSDC to its full capacity. It is expected that in the coming months Fujitsu will then sell their remaining shares back to Toshiba, giving them 100% ownership and control.
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FileZilla 3.2.8 final released
FileZilla is an FTP program for file uploading and downloading to and from your FTP site, server, or host. The program lets you transfer files and navigate among folders, Web sites, and your computer. This software enables you to perform multiple file transfers simultaneously.
Changes since the release candidate include:
New features:
- Remember last used search conditions
- Display link overlay on icons of links in remote file list
- Display of average transfer speed should converge faster to overall average
- Simplify default file exists action dialogs
- Apply decimal places size formatting option also to total queue size
- MSW: Reduce number of needed user interactions in installer if update started from within FileZilla
- MSW: Check that there are no running instances of FileZilla before installing
- Fixed handling of remote directory names with leading or trailing spaces
- *nix: Fix memory leaks in D-Bus session management and power management inhibitor client code
- *nix: Fall back to org.gnome.SessionManager if org.freedesktop.PowerManagment does not exit to inhibit idle sleep during transfers
- Increase default size of SO_RCVBUF (TCP advertised window) to fix performance issues on high-latency connections
- MSW: Fix displaying list of shares on local network resources
- MSW: Remote file editing no longer gets confused if two filenames only differ in character case
- Fixed dialog line wrapping issues
- Ensure width of site manager is large enough to fit all tabs
- Better guard against filename columns being moved or hidden
- *nix, OS X: Handle filesystems without advisory file locking instead of falsely warning about site manager being opened in a different instance of FileZilla
- Changing directories at the same time an upload finishes no longer disturbs synchronized browsing
- *nix: Ensure dialogs can be closed using escape key
- *nix: Fix height of settings dialog
Website: FileZilla Project
Download: FileZilla 3.2.8
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Research in Motion release BlackBerry security patch
RIM have rolled out a new security update for their BlackBerry line of software, fixing a flaw in the handling of security certificates within the BlackBerry browser - a flaw that could otherwise be exploited to phish upon mobile internet surfers.
The vulnerability exists in software versions 4.5 - 4.7, and all users with supported versions of the BlackBerry software are advised to update. RIM did stress that this update does not affect desktops or servers, and that it just relates to handsets.
Researchers found that the browser was not reporting mismatched security certificates properly when null characters on the address are found - allowing attackers to create false certificates that slip past the user's nose without them even noticing.
With that said, regardless of your software version (and in sense, especially those that cannot update), all users are advised to use caution when accepting web certificates and avoid clicking on any suspicious or unsolicited links.
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QNAP delivers the TS-410 4-bay NAS server
More connected storage comes to market courtesy of QNAP Systems which has today added the TS-410 Turbo NAS server to its offer. This new solution targets the SOHO and Prosumer segments and features support for up to four 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA hard drives for up to 8TB of storage space (RAID 0/1/5/6/5+ configurations are available), a 800 MHz Marvell 6281 processor, 256MB of DDR2 memory, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, plus four USB 2.0 and two eSATA connectors.
"QNAP's new TS-410 is a great addition to a home network; especially where lots of content is being downloaded and needs to be shared easily in mixed networks that might include Macs, PCs, and even game consoles" said Meiji Chang, CEO of QNAP Systems. "The TS-410 can easily and affordably handle this and many other tasks including centralized backup so the downloaded content on all the machines in the home network is protected."
The TS-410 also includes the V3 version of QNAP's NAS management software, and has already started to become available starting from 588 Euro (2TB model, a 1TB version is also coming).
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HTC Tilt 2 and Pure announced by AT&T
AT&T is getting the Windows Mobile 6.5 party started by jumping the gun a little and unveiling two smartphones powered by Microsoft's mobile OS, the HTC Pure (rebranded Touch Diamond2) and HTC Tilt 2 (aka Touch Pro2). Going for $150 with a two-year plan, the Pure measures 107.85 X 53.1 X 13.7 mm, weights 117.5 grams and features a 3.2-inch (480x800) touchscreen, quad-band GSM and HSDPA support, a 5 megapixel camera, GPS and a microSD slot.
The phone is equipped with a 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7200A processor, 288MB of RAM, a built-in FM radio, USB, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and boasts a 1100 mAh battery.
As for the Tilt 2, it has the same processor, amount of memory and connection, network support as the Pure but packs a 3.2MP camera, a 3.6-inch TFT touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The Tilt 2 will become available in the next few weeks and cost $300 with a two-year plan.
Picture courtesy of Engadget.
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Adobe rolls out ColdFusion 9
Continuing with its announcement wave, Adobe has today also introduced ColdFusion 9, a development technology that enables the making of dynamic Web sites and Internet applications. In addition to this, Adobe has also released the ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 integrated development environment (IDE).
ColdFusion 9 aims to speed up development cycles by reducing complex and powerful business logic into a few lines of code. Among the updates brought by this new release are the Adobe AIR application for managing multiple ColdFusion servers from one location, local and remote database synchronization with Adobe AIR, and deep integration with Hibernate's object relational mapping (ORM) service.
Adobe's ColdFusion 9 is now available in three editions - Developer Edition (free, for development use only), Enterprise Edition ($7499 per 2 CPUs) and Standard ($1299 per 2 CPUs). For more info about ColdFusion 9 see this page.
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TDK develops 10-layer 320GB disc
After previously topping 100GB and 200GB per disc, TDK has managed to make a prototype optical disc that has no less than 320GB of storage space. The bit-beefy write-once disc has ten 32GB layers and can be recorded using blue-violet lasers that are available in current Blu-Ray writers.
In order to be able to stack up 10 layers TDK had to improve the transmittance of each layer by adjusting the density of germanium dioxide used. This has enabled TDK to get a transmittance of over 90% on the last layer, a high enough level to make for a feasible solution.
TDK is planning on showing off the 320GB disc at CEATEC JAPAN 2009 which kicks off tomorrow.
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