heise online news 09/10/2008

heise online news 09/10/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news American Airlines and Delta decide to filter in-flight broadband In-flight wireless broadband services will offer restricted access to block objectionable content › Read article     Mozilla previews Geolocation for Firefox Mozilla Labs have introduced Geode, a plug-in for Mozilla Firefox 3 that enables Wifi geolocation, as a prelude to the W3C Geolocation API being incorporated in future versions of Firefox › Read article     Clickjacking: any click could be the fatal click A demo illustrates how users can unknowingly change their Flash Player settings, allowing attackers access to their webcam. Many browsers are reported to be affected by this kind of clickjacking problem › Read article     SpringSource changes open source policies SpringSource, developer of the open source Java application framework Spring, has "fine-tuned" its controversial maintenance policy announced last month › Read article     Symantec to acquire MessageLabs The US security company will buy the UK-based email security service provider for £310m › Read article     OOXML ISO specification leaks onto internet The "Boycott Novell" blog has published what it claims is the final, 5560 page version of the standard for Microsoft's Office Open XML document format; ISO representatives complain that this is a blatant copyright violation › Read article     Customers return Linux Netbooks more often Linux based netbooks are four times more likely to be returned than Windows XP netbooks according to MSI; Canonical confirms › 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.