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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Firefox lets hackers grab your passwords; Does SaaS speed adoption of OSS?

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Firefox lets hackers grab your passwords
Julie Bort: Better delete your passwords from Firefox's Password Manager before next week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Read More


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Software as a Service: Speeding up adoption of OSS?
Amy Vernon: Whether you want to call it open core or open source or something else entirely, the software as a service business model has been gaining popularity. Read More

July 2010 Vulnerability Report - Sourcefire
July 20, 2010 - The latest security vulnerability and patching information, courtesy of Sourcefire. Read More

Open discussion about open source
Phil Odence: Last week, Stephen O'Grady from RedMonk talked with me about open source being alive and well. He made a number of interesting points about the software market. Read More

SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin Sets the Record Straight
Alan Shimel: Is SugarCRM's latest release, in fact open source? Is it open core? Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM explains. Read More


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Adobe's partnership with SourceForge has interesting implications
Amy Vernon: The first occupant of SourceForge's new developer platform is Adobe, and that would seem to have interesting implications for the debate over Flash vs HTML5. Read More

Open Source hardware advocates want a hard-core license
Julie Bort: Within one day of the release of a definition for "open source" hardware, the document has garnered endorsements from 50 people, many of them affiliated with manufacturing businesses. Read More

The Open source legal maze: an open trap?
Eric Gries: Five minutes after first looking at open source, I found myself on the phone with a lawyer. Read More

Mozilla makes mistake by ignoring Windows Mobile 7
Alan Shimel: When you don't have a mobile OS of your own and those that do all have their own browsers, you can't afford to walk away from any opportunity. Read More


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DHS, vendors unveil open source intrusion detection engine
An open source foundation partially funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security unveiled an open source engine it said improves on past technologies built to detect and prevent network intrusions. Read More

Is open source Snort dead? Depends who you ask
Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead? The Open Information Security Foundation thinks so. Read More

PHP development comes to Google Android
Spanish open source venture provides tools and documentation for PHP developers who want to create Android apps Read More

Droid X Proves a Hit: Sold Out
The Motorola Droid X launched Thursday and is already sold out, exceeding Verizon's demand expectations. Read More

 
 
 

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