The bone of contention is the Blackberry Enterprise Service (BES) communication service for businesses. The Indian government is demanding complete access to the service, RIM is maintaining that it cannot provide this on principle. RIM has now made proposals which are to be implemented and examined
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CEDET brings project management, code completion, reference analysis, code generation and more to the Emacs editor
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The CyanogenMod project has published version 6.0 of its modified Android 2.2 based firmware, a free, community-built custom ROM that supports a number of older Android phones – many of which only officially support version 1.6 of Google’s mobile operating system
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Google developers have announced that Chromium, the open source browser on which the company builds the Chrome browser, is getting a GPU graphics overhaul
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Google has announced that it will not be attending Oracle organised JavaOne conference because of the Oracle’s lawsuit which claims Google has infringed Java patents
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Phoronix reports that Indian vendor Knowledge Quest Infotech is working on a native ZFS port to Linux
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In the past week – the OpenSolaris Governance Board resigned, more Windows applications were found to be vulnerable to DLL hijacking, Ubuntu got a technical architect, Fedora 14 alpha arrived and Zurich Insurance was fined £2.28m for losing its customers’ private data
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The vendor plans to extend its Cloud Foundations, which were introduced in June; a virtual machine with JBoss is to be the Platform-as-a-Service on which developers can base their applications
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According to one report, attackers are already actively exploiting an error in the way libraries are loaded in many different applications.
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The VideoLAN Project developers have issued version 1.1.4 of their VLC Media Player, a maintenance and security update that addresses a DLL loading design vulnerability on Windows systems that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code
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