heise online news 18/09/2008

heise online news 18/09/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news HP office PCs to have "Virtual Firefox" HP launches a new range of next-generation Intel-based office PCs, preloaded with what it calls the "HP Virtual Firefox Browser", developed in cooperation with the Mozilla foundation and Symantec. › Read article     Mozilla Chief apologises for Ubuntu EULA Mozilla's CEO, Mitchell Baker, admits the Mozilla made "giant error" in the way they introduced a End User Licence Agreement to Firefox on Ubuntu Linux › Read article     Mini office supercomputer As a compact supercomputer, the Cray CX1, with up to 128 Intel Xeon processor cores and 512 GB of memory will also be suitable for use in developer offices. › Read article     IEFT planning internationalised email addresses The IETF is introducing new standards so that email addresses will be able to include non-English characters such as Chinese ideograms, French accents and German umlauts. › Read article     Dirac video codec reaches version 1.0 The Dirac video format gets a boost as the Dirac reference codec, "Shrodinger", gets to version 1.0 › Read article     Google creates developer update channel for Chrome Google lets developers and testers get an earlier taste of Chrome, without them having to download nightly builds or compile from source › Read article     PC-BSD 7.0 adds ZFS and KDE 4.1.1 PC-BSD, the BSD desktop variant is based on FreeBSD 7 and comes with KDE 4.1.1 and ZFS. To synchronise with FreeBSD, its version number jumps from 1.5 to 7.0 › Read article     Adobe releases beta of AIR for Linux The Linux version of AIR, Adobe's runtime environment now nearly matches the functionality of the Windows and Mac versions but it still doesn't support DRM › 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.