heise online news 17/09/2008

heise online news 17/09/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Satellite Internet planned for three billion people Satellites are to be used in underdeveloped countries where it does not make financial sense to provide fibre optics for the Internet. Today, O3b Networks, the company behind the project, ordered 16 such satellites. › Read article     Infobright puts Data Warehouse software under GPL Infobright, the Canadian start-up company, has released its analytical storage engine, formerly called Brighthouse, as the GPL licenced Infobright Community Edition. › Read article     Yet another new browser: beta 1 of Opera 9.6 appears Opera 9.6 will improve on the mail client and synchronisation features of the current 9.52. › Read article     iPhone update closes critical security holes Apparently, rather than providing the improvements originally announced, the new 2.1 firmware closes a number of critical security holes. › Read article     Firefox 3.1 gets a built-in privacy mode too Firefox 3.1 will join the ranks of new and old browsers that support a privacy mode when the beta arrives in October › Read article     CodeWeavers bring Chrome to Mac and Linux CodeWeavers has used its Wine-based technology to bring the open source version of Google's Chrome, Chromium, to Mac OS X and Linux › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Jonathan Bennett All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.