Started in 2005, the Google Summer of Code program has allowed for over 2500 students from 98 countries to contribute under the watchful eye of a professional mentor with code to various open-source projects. Launched under Google's big wing, what started as a small project and a way to contribute back to the community has reached mammoth status, being one of the most praised non-profit development initiatives around. Offering financial stipends for students and mentors alike, the program is encouraging stud...
[read more >>] A newly discovered Windows vulnerability might allow hackers to re-enable any ActiveX exploit previously blocked by Microsoft. Vulnerability researchers from VUPEN Security have successfully crafted a proof-of-concept attack that leverages the flaw to bypass an active killbit.Setting killbits is the default method used by Microsoft to close security holes that can be exploited via ActiveX. Each ActiveX control has a corresponding unique identifier known as CLSID. Killbits are registry values that tell software li...
[read more >>] Wikipedia is currently experiencing problems and can be unavailable at times. The site has tracked down the issue to a filled-up hard drive and is currently looking at ways to resolve this. “At 10:57 UTC, the master database server for s3 (the cluster that holds most of our wikis) had a full disk and stopped writing. For this reason it’s no longer possible to edit these wikis. Because all slave servers for s3 stopped as a result, these wikis are now running read-only from a single server, wh...
[read more >>] Nokia C5 is like one of those restaurants with “all you can eat” offers at very low prices. It has top-notch features, but costs less than you would expect from such a phone. Its stylish and solid design will surely make it stand out from the crowd. Even though its price tag recommends it as a mid-budget device, Nokia C5 is fully featured and offers Symbian fans all the requirements of a high-end smartphone. The only two major exceptions are the very small display and the slim design, which doesn'...
[read more >>] With the release of Platform Preview 4 Build 1.9.7.9.16.6000 of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), Microsoft compared fully-accelerated HTML5 web experiences in the next iteration of its browser to what open source rivals Firefox and Chrome are capable of delivering. The company granted me access to the video embedded below ahead of the launch of the final developer preview of IE9, but now the content is available to all users. In the demo, Rob Mauceri, Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer, takes a look at some of...
[read more >>] Microsoft is extremely close to the perfect score in the Acid3 Test with Internet Explorer 9, having made a consistent jump with the recently released Platform Preview 4 in comparison to Platform Preview 3. The latest developer preview of IE9 scores 95/100 in the Acid3 test, 12 points more than the previous pre-Beta release, which only managed 83/100. Microsoft has indeed entered the Acid3 Test measuring contest with IE9, although in the end the test is more about the perception of web standards support than an a...
[read more >>] A few minutes ago, the Ubuntu development team unleashed the third and last Alpha release of the upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system, due for release in October 10th, 2010. As usual, we've downloaded a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 10.10 development. What's new in Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 3? Do you remember the OneConf software introduced by Softpedia a couple of months ago? Well, you should know that the first version has been released...
[read more >>] Google Wave, one of the company’s most ambitious and certainly one of its most hyped products, is now dead. Google has stopped any further development on it and will eventually close down the servers hosting it as well. This comes barely two months after Wave was opened to the public and a little over a year after it was announced. The Wave team will move to other Google products, the speculation being that they’ll join the company’s ‘Facebook-killer’ project.“Wave has not seen...
[read more >>] The final developer preview of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is here, and the clock is ticking for web developers worldwide to ensure that their websites are tailored to the next major iteration of Internet Explorer. And with IE9 Beta scheduled for availability next month, developers need to get started on building advanced web experiences leveraging the evolution of Internet Explorer. In this sense, IE9 Platform Preview 4 is a great “preview” of the Beta development milestone. It is very important ...
[read more >>] New Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta downloads are available now for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Launched in the first half of July 2010, Windows 7 SP1 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta have suffered a small refresh at the start of this week. The changes made by Microsoft in no way affect the actual Service Pack 1 bits, with the Redmond company focusing on the packaging of the first upgrade for the two operating systems. Following the modifications introduced, early adopters will enjoy streamlined downl...
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