Great article at Joey Hess’s blog that apparently demonstrates that the Palm Pre periodically uploads GPS coordinates for the current user, along with applications used and application crash logs. Seems to be a bit of a security concern if these phones where used in a corporate environment.
There is a very interesting discussion on my favorite news site, Slashdot (Link), about a developer trying to submit a fix to an open source project and not having the maintainer respond. While this is unlikely to happen in a very vocal and active os community such as Apache or […]
Twitter suffered a one-two punch today as they were both DDOSed and targetted as a vector for a new Koobface virus payload.
With the advent of HTML 5.0 and its support in such modern browsers as Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Google Chrome(new betas) and Opera, the entire dynamic display framework provided in both Flash and Silverlight, becomes almost a moot point. What I like about the possibility, is that it creates an […]
Great article from a great blog today: Oracle’s purchase of Sun went on hold while the DoJ continues its review. Last Friday, Daniel Wall, a lawyer at Latham & Watkin representing Oracle, said that “we were almost able to resolve everything before the Second Request deadline. All that’s left is […]
