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JasperSoft offers a self-service subscription to users of its free community version; Pentaho will offer support for further Big Data platforms
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Crypto specialist Karsten Nohl has used an old mobile phone and some open source software to record and decrypt GPRS connections
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An XSS hole in eBay.de enabled attackers to steal other users' cookies and take control of their accounts. eBay's initial response to being notified by a heise Security reader was far from ideal
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Vulnerabilities have been fixed in Shockwave Player, Flash Media Server, Flash Player, Photoshop CS5 and RoboHelp; the holes mainly concern memory corruption and buffer overflow problems that could allow attackers to crash systems or take control
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But Google promises to open source the application that lets non-programmers create Android applications
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Apple has obtained an injunction stopping Samsung from selling its Android tablet in almost the whole of the EU, but this time the case is not about software patents
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Following the principles of Médicins Sans Frontières, volunteer IT experts will help aid organisations solve their IT problems
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The openSUSE Community Manager has confirmed that 90 per cent of the more than 200 community members who voted have approved the project's strategy document
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SMB2, an endpoint mapper, rewritten spooling, better quota handing for Linux and a traffic analyser are included in the new release, but not all are enabled by default
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Security services provider McAfee is warning customers of security holes in McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection that could be used by an attacker to remotely inject and execute arbitrary commands
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Open source SSL library for embedded devices reaches version 1.0 after five years and one fork
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The latest special build of the forthcoming Firefox 8 is experimenting with a small selection of DOM joystick events. Web content in the test version of the browser can be operated using an Xbox 360 controller
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The 2011 Young Rewired State event for 15- to 18-year-olds took place across several sites from 1 to 5 August. Wendy M. Grossman attended and describes her experiences with the teenage coders
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In the run up to the full Android patent case, Oracle and Google are fighting over what is eligible to be presented as evidence in the case
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After more than six months of development, the latest release of the Infinispan grid computing platform offers new features, bug fixes, and support for Spring, CDI and OSGi
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Security vulnerabilities addressed in updates to the open source content management system include cross-site scripting (XSS), information disclosure and authentication delay bypass holes
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Hacktivists also release 8 GB of data from a Brazilian corruption case and details of Ecuador's 45,000 police employees
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The new HTCdev developer portal hosts the OpenSense SDK and kernel source code and binaries for the company's Android-based handsets. In future, it will be the home for the Bootloader Unlock tool
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Mozilla Labs has announced the release of an experimental add-on for the Thunderbird email client that allows Ubuntu 11.10 users to read and edit address book contacts from the Evolution Data Server
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Google is having another go at adapting the Android Intents and Activity system for the world of web applications with the restarting of the Web Intents project
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Fedora postpones the switch to the experimental Btrfs because an improved file system test tool continues to be unavailable
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The security firm RSA, recently awarded a prize for the lamest response to a security vulnerability has issued advice on the defence of "advanced persistent threats." In March it had fallen victim to such an attack itself
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A new LiveDVD edition of the Gentoo Linux distribution has been released "to celebrate the continued collaboration between Gentoo users and developers." It includes a choice of desktop environments and window managers, as well as a number of bundled applications
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SAP's J2EE engine in NetWeaver allows an attacker to remotely create new administrators with no authentication required. A fix is due this week
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Eclipse 3.8 M1 is the first version of the development environment to officially support Java 7. This puts it on a level with IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 and Netbeans 7.0.1
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Adobe fixes critical vulnerabilities in four products on patch day 
Young Rewired State 2011
