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Stories · 6

  1. Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C

    Yro · Patents · · posted by timothy · from the broad-patents-big-problems dept. · 332 comments
    Kelson writes "The W3C Widget specification is running into a problem: Apple claims a patent on automatic updates and is unwilling to license it royalty-free in the event that it impacts the spec. The W3C is investigating to determine whether the spec includes anything covered by the patent, and decide what to do."

  2. Opera 9.60 Released, With Upgraded Mail Client

    It · Communications · · posted by timothy · from the alternative-alternative- dept. · 128 comments
    Kelson writes "Opera Software has released Opera 9.60, the latest version of their web browser & internet suite. It's an evolutionary release, focused on performance optimization, improving the email client and adding more items to the Opera Link synchronization service."

  3. Internet Explorer Drops WGA Requirement

    Tech · Msie · · posted by CowboyNeal · from the while-the-getting-is-good dept. · 220 comments
    Kelson writes "The Internet Explorer team has updated the installer for IE7. Mostly they've adjusted a few defaults and updated their tutorials, but one change stands out: The installer no longer requires Windows Genuine Advantage validation. Almost a year after its release, IE7 has yet to overtake its predecessor. Was WGA holding back a tide of potential upgrades, or did it just send people over to alternative browsers?"

  4. Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software

    Tech · Software · · posted by ScuttleMonkey · from the something-for-everyone dept. · 66 comments
    The Alliance writes "InfoWorld has announced the 2007 Bossie Awards for the Best of Open-Source Software. Awards were given to 36 winners across 6 categories. Honorees include (among others) SpamAssassin, ClamAV and Nessus in security, Wireshark and Azureus Vuze in networking, and ZFS for storage. Interestingly, they split the operating system winners across two distributions, with CentOS winning for server OS and Ubuntu for desktop."

  5. Typing Patterns for Authentication

    It · Security · · posted by CowboyNeal · from the no-one-touches-like-you dept. · 259 comments
    Kelson writes "NPR's Marketplace is reporting on a new authentication scheme. BioPassword tracks the way you type your password: how long each key is depressed, the time between keystrokes, and overall speed. When someone tries to log into your account, it compares the pattern to what it has on file. It only allows you in if both the password and patterns match. The technique has been around a while. World War II Morse code operators used it to determine whether a message was sent by an ally or an impostor."

  6. Browser Wars Declared Over?

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the everyone-just-afraid-of-losing dept. · 182 comments
    Kelson writes to mention Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera and Google took the stage this week at the Web 2.0 expo and in addition to discussing pressing issues have declared their intent to avoid another browser war. All the panelists agreed that security was the largest concern currently facing browser developers. "Brendan Eich, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, said that security was hard and always will be. 'I don't think we should take security lightly; it's an end-to-end problem and we have to step outside the current model to win on this front,' he said. For his part, Chris Wetherell, a software engineer at Google, said one of the scenarios that kept him awake at night was offline access to the browser and what that meant from a security perspective, particularly on the user-to-user front."