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Top 10 open source websites 2005
The British Independent magazine ranked the Top 10 most popular open source products and services websites of 2005, topping the Top 10 table, which is two familiar websi…
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Google Talk has contacted some other IM services
Yesterday, Google officially announced
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Add a security error Quicktime
The security error lies in Quicktimes' media files player, running on both Windows and Mac OS versions. Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple, said attackers could take advantag…
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NetBSD 3.0, an open-source version of the OS upgrade
Finally, the latest comprehensive upgrade to the NetBSD open source operating system has also been issued - NetBSD 3.0, which enhances compatibility with virtual private…
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AllPeer, peer-to-peer tool for Firefox
A software company in the UK, AllPeers has developed a new peer-to-peer tool for open source browser Firefox. This is considered as the best thing for Firefox since Fire…
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Open source copyright is controversial
The Open Source OSDL organization in November established a common reference library, listing patent patterns to prevent developers from accidentally violating copyright…
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Quick search with Yahoo Search Shortcut
Yahoo has launched a completely new application that allows registered users to use its services to create shortcuts to Web sites via Yahoo's search portal. Yahoo calls…
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Be careful with Wikipedia!
Many major American newspapers quote or recommend the Wikipedia online encyclopedia (www.wikipedia.org). Wikipedia is truly a phenomenon with huge data updates constantl…
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Linux desktop optimism entered 2006
The open source OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) believes that the latest developments of the Portland Project show that the Linux market for desktops will really gro…
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IT world 2005: 10 memorable moments
2005 is the year of big mergers. Although Oracle has pocketed $ 10.3 billion to buy PeopleSoft is not
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Mozilla warned of the first bug in Firefox 1.5
The open source software organization has just released a security guide, acknowledging that a problem in the latest browser version may cause buffer overflow. However,…
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The 2006 World Cup tickets are officially sold online
At exactly 11 am on 12-12 GMT, all the 2006 World Cup online ticketing networks worldwide opened simultaneously for all fans to buy tickets. As expected, because the num…
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Alexa opens the search list
The Alexa Web Search Platform Beta essentially allows developers to penetrate the company's 4 billion web pages to select data and create their own search engine. Decide…
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Mozilla: 'Firefox 1.5 doesn't make a mistake?'
A private security firm has just warned a security flaw in the open-source browser Firefox 1.5 and thinks the exploit code could be changed for remote code execution att…
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Apache released a new version
The Apache Software Foundation has just introduced a major update to the Apache open source web service server software. New features added in Apache 2.2.0 are large fil…