heise online news 19/09/2008

heise online news 19/09/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Safari gets official Gears, with a tiny hack Gears, Google's offline web application plug in, has been officially released for Mac OS X Safari, but it took a little hack to get it to work › Read article     More beta time for Firefox 3.1 Firefox 3.1 to pack in new features in a four week extension of the beta › Read article     Bill proposed to limit searches of laptops at US borders In the US House of Representatives, Democrat Loretta Sanchez proposed a bill entitled the "Border Search Accountability Act" to impose conditions on searches of electronic devices at US borders. › Read article     Canonical CTO bites back at Linux Plumbers Conference keynote Canonical CTO rebuts Greg Kroah-Hartman's Linux Plumbers Conference keynote speech claims that "Canonical doesn't give back to the community" and points to a lack of disclosure › 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.